April 8, 2009 |
Resource Spotlight |
In this edition:
 Managing Capital Project Risks in a Challenging Environment
AHA Offers New Resource on Schedule H
Trustee Opportunities at the 2009 AHA Annual Meeting
Speaker Spotlight: Larry Walker |
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Managing Capital Project Risks in a Challenging Environment |
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 In today's volatile environment, boards and executives need insights and resources to help them weather the storm. The Center is pleased to announce a new resource to help boards and executives more confidently lead their organizations through the challenging times ahead.
Unprecedented capital project spending followed by the meltdown of financial markets and other health care market dynamics are now calling for heightened risk management by hospital and health care system boards and executives. The Center's newest monograph, Managing Capital Project Risks in a Challenging Environment: What Health Care Boards and Executives Need to Know, discusses today's market environment, current capital market perspective and related risks. Authors Fred Campobasso, Joe Kucharz and Mike O'Keefe of Navigant Consulting, Inc., also outline a project management approach and issues that must be addressed to help boards and executives more effectively manage capital project risks while achieving organizational strategies and goals.
The monograph includes several question sets that hospital leaders must address to ensure effective risk management and capital project oversight. It explains the steps and costs involved in large capital construction projects and discusses how health care organizations can invest prudently today to remain viable and competitive in the future. The authors also illustrate how hospitals have incorporated cutting-edge approaches to operational planning, design, construction and process improvement resulting in the creation of facilities that perform better and cost less than the ones they replace.
The publication can be used in a variety of ways, including as background for a board retreat or educational session on strategic planning and capital spending, or as a resource for board Executive and Finance Committees or other board subcommittees charged with overseeing planning and implementation of capital projects. It includes information, tools, references and other resources that can help boards and executives more confidently participate in the heightened oversight, scrutiny and decision-making about capital projects needed in the current economic environment.
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Healthy Board/
Medical Staff Relationships:
Current Trends & Practices
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Blue Ribbon Panel Report: Competency-Based Governance:
A Foundation for Board and Organizational Effectiveness
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AHA Offers New Resource on Schedule H
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Educational Events |
The AHA's Community Connections initiative recently released a resource to help non-profit hospitals communicate the full scope of their community benefit to the public. "Telling the Hospital Story: Going Beyond Schedule H" includes a strategy checklist, worksheet for completing a community benefit report, and sample community benefit reports and communication strategies from the field that hospital boards and CEOs can use to ensure their organization communicates the array of benefits it provides to the community.
"What you submit for Schedule H is not enough to tell your community about the full services you provide," AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock said in a letter to be sent along with a hardcopy of the materials to non-profit hospitals in the coming weeks. "To ensure your story is told completely and accurately, you must make the numbers reported in Schedule H and those for which there isn't a spot in that Schedule come alive through stories about patients, people in your community and examples of your successes in improving health."
Community Connections is an AHA initiative to help hospitals communicate their value as a vital community resource that merits broad public support.
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Fall Symposium on Governing & Leading Healthcare Organizations
September 13-16, 2009
White Sulphur Springs,
West Virginia
Winter Symposium on Governing & Leading Healthcare Organizations
January 17-20, 2010
Naples, Florida
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| Trustee Opportunities at the 2009 AHA Annual Meeting |
Overview | Registration Brochure
Health care is constantly changing and it's important to stay current on the latest news and trends in both health care and health care governance. The AHA Annual Membership Meeting is an excellent opportunity for new and returning board members to do just that.
Attention Center Members!
Center members attending the AHA Annual Membership Meeting April 26-29 in Washington, DC, are invited to join Center President John Combes, M.D., for a special welcome reception Sunday, April 26, at 4 p.m. at the Hilton Washington. The reception will also include a brief update on the current political climate for health care from AHA Vice President for Political Affairs Mark Seklecki.
The Center for Healthcare Governance this year again will sponsor three educational sessions at the meeting, taking place April 26-29 at the Hilton Washington in Washington, DC.
- On Sunday, April 26, James E. Orlikoff, president of Orlikoff & Associates, Inc., will examine the concept of "microgovernance" and outline how boards and CEOs can re-examine and refine a unique and productive governance/management balance that is essential to ongoing organizational success.
- On Monday, April 27, AHA Chair-Elect Rick de Filippi and Center President John Combes, M.D., will provide an overview of the work of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Trustee Core Competencies, convened by the Center and the Health Research & Educational Trust to examine the nature of leadership competencies and how they can be developed and applied to improve health care governance.
- Finally, on Tuesday, April 28, Kathryn J. McDonagh, Ph.D., vice president of executive relations for Hospira Inc., and Mary Totten, president of Totten Associates and the Center's director of content development, will examine how governance culture influences hospitals' performance improvement efforts.
- In addition, on Tuesday, April 28, the Committee on Governance will again sponsor the Trustee Leadership Breakfast: National Political Update. This year they will be joined by former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a nearly 20-year veteran of the Senate who served as assistant majority leader from 1984 to 1994.
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| Speaker Spotlight |
The Center for Healthcare Governance developed Speakers Express to help make the high-caliber speakers and presenters found at its national symposia and regional workshops available to organizations throughout the country. Our speakers are proven professionals who are viewed as the "go-to" leaders in their respective fields of expertise, customizing their presentations to fit the unique needs of each organization.
The Center for Healthcare Governance introduces Larry Walker, president of the Walker Company, which specializes in governance development, market research, leadership retreats and strategic planning for hospitals and other health care organizations. Learn more about Larry below.
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| Center Members: Ask the Governance Expert |
 The Center for Healthcare Governance wants our members to be as connected as possible to our governance consultants. Being able to ask questions online and receive responses back quickly will give you access to the answers and resources you need in order to achieve excellence in health care governance.
Please fill out the Center's Ask the Governance Expert online form with your specific question or request, and you will be contacted within 24 hours with a reply. In addition, please feel free to use this form to submit feedback about the Center's services so that we can better serve you.
Please note that this is a member-only resource. Only submissions by Center members will be answered.
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