Governance Research

Hospital Governance: Initial Summary Report of 2005 Survey of CEOs & Board Chairs

The Center for Healthcare Governance is pleased to make available a report published by the Health Research & Educational Trust, “Hospital Governance: Initial Summary Report of 2005 Survey of CEOs and Board Chairs”.

This report summarizes basic information about the state of hospital governance today. It contains information gathered from more than 1500 hospital CEOs and 900 board chairs in the spring and summer of 2005. Throughout the report, the information shown has been weighted to represent the total population of U.S. nonfederal acute-care community hospitals.

Overall, this report gives a snapshot of the state of hospital governance: its structure, its understanding of its responsibilities, its key relationships, and its role in creating the future for individual health care organizations. What this report does not cover is the unique functioning of system boards, for-profit and public boards, as well as other categories such as community access hospitals, academic medical centers, etc. Future reports will target some of these other governance structures to enable a deeper understanding of how governance functions, given the diversity and complexity of health care organizations. 

In addition, other reports will tie specific governance practices and characteristics to organizational performance. Thus the data from these surveys and other sources will enable us to make statements about what are truly best practices, and in what circumstances. (Authors: Lawrence Prybil, Ph.D.; Frances S. Margolin; Samantha Hawkins; Jeffery A. Alexander).

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