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Center/AGLG Monographs
To order any of the Center/AGLG monographs below please contact us at the Center at 1-888-540-6111 or email us at info@americangovernance.com.
Titles include:
- Strengthening Governance in Hospitals and Health Systems
Introduction
“Strengthening Governance in Hospital and Health Systems: What Boards are Doing Well, and What They Could Do Better,” is a Center monograph outlining the results and implications of a Clark Consulting survey of hospital and health system responses to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and other for-profit governance reform initiatives. It is a companion publication to “Health Care Governance in an Era of Reform,” which provides practical information and steps that health care organizations can take to address the impact that for-profit governance reforms already are beginning to have on not-for-profit governance.
This publication discusses how more than 300 hospitals and health systems are evaluating and adapting for-profit governance reforms. It also includes rules and recommendations for improving governance put forward by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock exchanges, and other business and investor organizations. Together, “Strengthening Governance in Hospital and Health Systems: What Boards are Doing Well, and What They Could Do Better,” and “Health Care Governance in an Era of Reform,” provide health care executives and governing boards with a comprehensive resource to help ensure that their governance processes are informed by current thinking and practice and are aimed at strengthening both board performance and accountability.
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Health Care Governance in an Era of Reform
Introduction
“Health Care Governance in an Era of Reform” provides practical information and steps that health care organizations can take to address the impact that for-profit governance reforms already are beginning to have on not-for-profit governance. This publication is a companion to “Strengthening Governance in Hospitals and Health Systems: What Boards are Doing Well, and What They Could Do Better”, an AGL monograph outlining the results and implications of a Clark Consulting survey of hospital and health system responses to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and other for-profit governance reform initiatives.
In light of emerging governance reforms, this publication discusses a variety of issues, including best practices that health care boards should consider adopting, how to assess a board’s current governance processes, and keeping an eye on the boundary between governance and management as boards examine and improve their policies and practices. Together, “Strengthening Governance in Hospitals and Health Systems: What Boards are Doing Well, and What They Could Do Better” and “Health Care Governance in an Era of Reform” provide health care executives and governing boards with a comprehensive resource to help ensure that their governance processes are informed by current thinking and practice and are aimed at strengthening both board performance and accountability.
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Selecting, Managing and Partnering with Healthcare Consultants: Achieving True Value
Introduction:
Achieving the best results with consultants requires capable, well-organized, and thoughtful leadership approaches. Effective boards and management teams make excellent consulting clients. They are able to select the best consultants and make optimal use of their counsel. Poorly functioning boards or management teams are far less likely to use consulting advice effectively. This monograph offers suggestions for strengthening governance and management, which provide a foundation for making the best use of consultants. If consultation becomes necessary, well-managed organizations achieve better results. However, even the most gifted consultants cannot help organizations led by poorly functioning boards and management teams.
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Clinical Joint Ventures a Primer for Healthcare Leaders: Clinical Joint Ventures
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This monograph provides healthcare governing boards, executives and physician leaders with a detailed discussion of clinical joint ventures (JVs) between hospitals and physicians. Kevin M. Kennedy and Gary K. Edmiston of ECG Management Consultants explore factors creating opportunities for hospitals and physicians to develop clinical joint ventures as more and more healthcare services are being delivered in settings outside of the hospital. The authors look at a variety of conditions where clinical joint ventures may or may not be appropriate and discuss the benefits and challenges of developing successful ventures. They review the basic forms of joint ventures and how they may be combined to achieve specific objectives. The authors also suggested hoe to evaluate JV opportunities and factors to consider when developing a joint venture. They review legal ad regulatory pitfalls likely to be encountered when structuring a JV and discuss future trends that will likely create increasing opportunities for clinical joint ventures, as well as other forms of hospital/physician collaboration.
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Raising the Bar on Governance: Board Committee Performance in the New Era of Accountability
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This monograph reviews the roles and responsibilities of the Audit, Compensation and Governance/Nominating Committees and the impact that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has had on their roles and responsibilities in the public companies. Hospital and health system boards have a window of opportunity to review their own performance to determine whether it now complies with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and if not, what should be done to raise the bar.
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Board Member Compensation: A Primer for Governing Boards and Leaders of Health Care Organizations
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This publication is a primer on board member compensation for health care organizations. Three articles, originally appearing in Healthcare Leadership and Management Report and American Governance Leader, are reprinted here to provide a comprehensive discussion of the topic. The first, “A Perspective on Board of Directors’ Compensation,” presents a variety of options for compensating board members and a four-step process for determining if compensation is right for your board. “Compensating Nonprofit Corporate: Tackling the Legal Issues,” explores the legal ins and outs of board member compensation and presents six core legal issues that health care organizations must understand as they evaluate the decision to compensate their board. “Compensating Board Members: Does that Make a Difference?” features comments from health care organization board chairs, board members and chief executives about why and how they compensate their boards and what the impact has been on board member recruitment and retention and board function.
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Governance Behind the Scenes: Providing Strategic Support for Effective Governance
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This monograph is the first in a series that will periodically look at governance support systems in different health care organizations. Here, we focus on the Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo, Mich. This publication explores how Bronson has developed and executed internal support systems for their governing board and governance processes. It also includes a variety of tools – such as a sample governance staff job description, orientation and education plans, assessment formats for board education needs and specific education programs, along with other resources – that can help your board evaluate and continue to improve its own governance support systems.
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A Business Solution for Health Care
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This monograph presents a perspective on quality and performance improvement that is useful for healthcare board members and leaders to discuss and debate. At the end of the text is a set of discussion questions that can be used by the full board as part of a board meeting educational session, or by a board committee, such as the Quality Committee, to explore the ideas and views set forth. For additional information to add to the discussion, see the September 2002 issue of the “American Governance Leader” newsletter. The issue features an interview and includes a case study of a hospital that implemented the comprehensive approach to quality and performance improvement outlined in this monograph.
For pricing information & to order any of the above monographs please contact us at the Center at 1-888-540-6111 or email us at info@americangovernance.com.
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