Center Webinars
Upcoming Events
Governing in an Era of Greater Transparency - A Proactive Approach
Wednesday, May 23, 2012: 12:00 - 1:30 pm Eastern
As the public demand for greater transparency increases, state legislatures continue to add more bite to open meetings and open records statutes. It is therefore vital that both community and governmental hospitals have a plan in place to comply with these so-called "sunshine laws." Through this webinar, you will gain a better understanding of regulations calling for greater transparency and the potential penalties for violating them. Participants will hear practical ideas to assist in developing a proactive compliance strategy while avoiding actions that might develop unfavorable precedent. The webinar will discuss application of sunshine laws to executive sessions and other governance activities.
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Archived Webinars
Welcome to the Board: An Orientation to the Health Care Environment
The initial year of hospital board service can be a confusing period for individuals who do not have prior experience in health care. To provide trustees with an opportunity to learn about governance basics, the Center for Healthcare Governance has developed a package of three pre-recorded webinars. This webinar series, Welcome to the Board, consists of three components: Basic Principles of Hospital Governance, A Regulatory and Legislative Context for Governance, and A Focus on Finance and Executive Compensation.
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Mission Based Decision Making for Boards
In this workshop, you will learn why mission matters to the health system's key stakeholders and understand how easy it is for boards to overlook mission as a vital element of their decision-making. Mission matters. When it is dealt with directly it can serve as a corner stone of the strategic plan. To illustrate this point, this webinar provides the opportunity to see the problems a board can encounter when mission was not considered up front during a major decision.
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The Role of the Chief Governance Officer - Does Your Hospital Need One?
The board is responsible for overseeing its own practices and decision making processes, but conducting a “governance review” can fall to the wayside when trustees are caught up in complicated hospital issues and changing health care rules. How can the board ensure that its governance processes and practices are on track? A chief governance officer can help trustees stay the course, enhance board accountability, and augment trustee effectiveness. This webcast will provide an introduction to the role of the chief governance officer and help you decide if this officer position is right for your hospital.
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Journey to High Value Healthcare: The Board's Oversight Role
Survival in the healthcare system of the future will depend on each organization's ability to transform care practices, respond to new reimbursement systems and redefine healthcare business models. This webcast provides a guide for boards and the healthcare C-Suite as they align strategies, decision making tools, processes, information technology and people to build new "organizational capacity" for clinical transformation. Board members will gain insight into their oversight role.
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Health Care in Transition: Topics for Trustees
The Center is pleased to unveil a new series of "in-the-boardroom" education modules to help trustees stay abreast of the latest trends and requirements. "Health Care in Transition: Topics for Trustees" brings to bear the educational expertise of the Center and the policy expertise of the AHA to create dynamic "in-the-boardroom education" on policy and regulatory issues of critical importance. Each 20- to 30-minute program consists of an audio recording with synched slides on one topic, discussion questions for use by the board after viewing the program, and supplemental resources.
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The Board's Role in Supporting Physician Integration
The integration of physician groups with hospitals is a critical challenge now facing health care organizations. Physician employment, joint-ventures and other co-management models are the beginning of a journey toward growth and improved care quality and outcomes at reduced costs. This webinar will demonstrate how governing boards can help executive teams better engage and support physician leadership to create highly agile physician organizations. It will demonstrate how the right compensation strategy can provide tools for physician recruitment, retention and alignment with hospitals.
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Strategic Planning in a Climate of Reform
This planning primer for hospital board members and leaders explores the process of strategic planning and the roles of the board, management and medical staff in the process. Presenters Gene J. O'Dell and John R. Combes, MD, discuss factors that influence the success of the planning process and pitfalls hospitals should be aware of to prevent less-than-optimal planning outcomes. This webinar shares tools to ensure the process stays on track and focuses on accomplishing mission and goals as well as questions boards and leaders can ask to evaluate their readiness and effectiveness throughout the planning process. The presenters also discuss issues hospital boards and leaders should focus on as they develop strategies to address the changes in health care delivery and pressures for improved performance required in the current climate of reform.
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The "Big Dots" of Healthcare Reform and What They Mean for Governance
While individual elements of healthcare reform are coming into focus, what is now crystal clear is that hospitals will become more integrated with physicians and other providers, more accountable for delivering value in the care and service they provide, and more at-risk for their overall performance.
In this timely webinar, John R. Combes, MD, President and COO of the AHA's Center for Healthcare Governance, explores the major areas of focus included in the health reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including:
- Expansion of insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans.
- Payment reform, including bundling of payments to providers and penalties for excessive readmissions.
- New models of care delivery, such as Accountable Care Organizations, the patient-centered medical home and home-based primary care for high-risk patients.
- Quality and safety imperatives for increasing transparency about the outcomes of care, value-based purchasing tied to hospital performance on specific quality measures and financial penalties for hospital-acquired conditions.
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Risk Governance Under Health Reform
If you're like many directors of health care organizations, you've long since accepted - even embraced - the responsibility for "risk governance" as a fundamental part of your oversight role. But awareness and acceptance are one thing; effective action can be quite another especially as new risks emerge under health reform. Many directors are still getting their arms around how to put risk governance into practice: how to broach the subject with management, how to build risk into the overall governance process, how to push through changes and make them stick. At the same time, many boards are also taking steps to improve the effectiveness of their existing risk governance efforts. If the boards you sit on are wrestling with issues like these, then this webinar is for you.
This session, presented by John Bigalke, U.S. Health Sciences & Government Leader for Deloitte LLP, and Kimberly Zeoli, a Partner in the National Governance, Regulatory & Risk Strategies Practice at Deloitte & Touche LLP, will address the key concepts of risk governance, explore the nine principles of creating a risk intelligent enterprise, and offer a six fold approach to enable a Risk Intelligent governance approach in the context of health reform.
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The Evolving Landscape of Non-Profit Corporate Governance: The Changing Nature of the Duties of Directors and Officers to Their Organizations
Many directors and officers of non-profit health care organizations find themselves in a world to which they are unaccustomed. Legislative reform has changed the business model of health care forever. Moreover, the complexity of the health care regulatory scheme, and the manner in which it is being applied by the IRS, the OIG and states Attorney General, is unprecedented. And, all of this has come on the heels of one of this country's greatest economic downturns, which caused many hospitals and health systems to incur huge operating deficits, massive losses in investment income and a loss of access to the credit markets. This confluence of events has created an environment where the pressure on those governing and managing health care companies is becoming acute, forcing those individuals and their organizations to examine their duties, obligations and governance practices.
This session, presented by Roger Strode, a partner in the National Health Care Practice at McDermott Will & Emery, explored the recent changes experienced by the health care industry and focused on the impact of those changes on directors and officers of non-profit hospitals, health care systems and medical groups. Mr. Strode provided an overview of the basic (and evolving) fiduciary duties owed by directors and officers to their organizations and reviewed Federal and state enforcement trends in the non-profit context. He then reviewed governance trends and best practices being applied by some of this country's leading non-profit health care companies.
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