About the Authors: Deborah J. Cornwall is Managing Director and Wilmot J. Gravenslund is Director of The Corlund Group LLC, a Boston-based consulting firm focused on assisting organizations with executive leadership assessment and development, governance effectiveness and change management. Overview: While most health care organization governing boards are familiar with their responsibility for CEO succession planning, few may…
About the Authors: Rian M. Yaffe is CEO and chairman and Alexander C. Yaffe is president of Yaffe & Company, which provides non-profit boards and Compensation Committees with independent advice regarding regulatory compliance, governance and other critical board responsibilities, including: executive compensation and contracts, goal-setting and performance evaluation, succession planning, leadership development and CEO transition. Yaffe & Company…
About the Authors: Fredric J. Entin and Janice A. Anderson are partners in the Health Care Industry team and Katherine S. O’Brien is an associate and member of the Health Care and Energy Industry teams and the Business Reorganizations practice at the law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP. The firm has offices across the United States and…
About the Authors: William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE, is a Senior Vice President and Senior Advisor and David D. Rowlee, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President of the Engagement Opinion Survey service line with Integrated Healthcare Strategies, which provides consultative services and people-based solutions to clients across the health care spectrum, including community and children’s hospitals, academic…
About the Author: Susanna E. Krentz is President of Krentz Consulting; Cathy Sullivan Clark and Scott B. Clay are Senior Principals and Dennis V. Kennedy is a Principal at Noblis Health Innovation, which offers advisory services, applied research and innovative solutions for health care providers and the broader health care community. Overview: In the current economic climate, the disparity between capital availability…
While nonprofit health care boards exist to serve community stakeholders, the nature of their accountabilities and the mechanisms for demonstrating fulfillment of them are not always completely clear or understood by every board member. In The Evolving Accountability of Nonprofit Health System Boards, authors Larry Prybil, Ken Ackerman, Doug Hastings and John King, explore the multiple accountabilities…
About the Author: Internationally-recognized strategy consultant Rita E. Numerof, Ph.D. is President and co-founder of Numerof & Associates, Inc. (NAI). Working globally across the health care industry with clients in delivery, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics, payers, and policy, NAI brings significant experience with current and alternative business models within the health care industry, ensuring clinical and…
About the Authors: David A. Bjork, Ph.D., is Managing Director, and Dan Fairley, J.D., is Senior Vice President, with Clark Consulting Healthcare Group, a firm that helps health care organizations build better relationships with their executives, physicians, trustees, and employees. Services include compensation planning for executives, physicians, and employees; management succession and leadership transition planning; laborrelations; employee surveys;…
About the Authors: Steve Rivkin is managing partner at Rivkin & Associates LLC, a communications and marketing consultancy which has handled assignments for more than 100 hospitals and systems (www.HospitalCrisis.net). Mr. Rivkin can be reached at steve@rivkin.net. Fraser Seitel is a senior partner at Rivkin & Associates LLC. Mr. Seitel can be reached at fraser@rivkin.net. Overview: Move over, “paradigm.”…
About the Authors: Sanjaya Kumar, MD, M.Sc., MPH is President & CMO and Chairman of the Board and Catherine Carson-Martin, RN, BSN, MPA is Director, Programs Management, at Quantros, Inc., a Miloitas, CA-based company that provides real-time knowledge solutions for benchmarking, patient safety, accreditation and compliance, and outcomes monitoring for health care providers, payers and pharmaceutical companies…