Center for Healthcare Governance

Blue Ribbon Panel on Health Care Governance

Building an Exceptional Board: Effective Practices for Health Care Governance
Report of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Health Care Governance

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The report, Building an Exceptional Board: Effective Practices for Health Care Governance, presents the results of the panel’s discussions about the role and value of health care governing boards and practices that boards have found valuable in improving their performance. The Health Research and Educational Trust facilitated the panel’s work; Russell Reynolds Associates and the Center funded and participated in its efforts.

Panel members included chief executives and board members of hospitals and health care systems, governance researchers and consultants and others with expertise in leadership and governance. They identified and focused their deliberations on five areas they believed were critical to effective governance:

  • Being an Accountable Board:  Earning and Maintaining the Public’s Trust;
  • Building and Sustaining a Proactive and Interactive Board Culture;
  • Laying a Foundation for Effective Decision-Making: Board Meetings and Information for Governing;
  • Focusing the Board on Key Governance Priorities; and
  • Clarifying Authority and Responsibility: The Buck Stops Where?

This report presents the panel’s recommendations in each of these areas and includes proven tools and resources that can help boards implement them. It also provides stretch practices for boards that want to continue to raise the bar on their performance.

The Center is proud to have participated in and to have helped fund the panel’s efforts. We know you will find the report a valuable resource in your board’s journey toward exceptional governance.

The Blue Ribbon Panel on Health Care Governance is part of the Center’s 2007 monograph series.

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To order a copy of, Building an Exceptional Board: Effective Practices for Health Care Governance, please use our secure online form.

Cost:

  • Additional Copies for AHA or Center Members: $30
  • Non-members: $40