Vol. 9, No. 4 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Governance Red Flags: 10 Signs of Boardroom Trouble
- Boardroom Basics: Diversifying Your Board: Strengthening Leadership Perspectives and Experience
- Spotlight on Reform: Maximizing Health Care Reform: Capitalizing on Opportunities for Innovation
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Vol. 9, No. 3 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Speaking Up for Your Hospital: Advocacy Basics for Trustees
- Governance Insights: What’s Right About America’s Health Care
- Spotlight on Reform: Implementing the ACA: New Rules and Regulations
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Vol. 9, No. 2 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Beyond Health Reform Act Requirements: Taking Your Community Needs Assessment to the Next Level
- Boardroom Basics: Governance vs. Management:
What’s the Difference?
- Spotlight on Reform: Making the Reform Shift: What Trustees Need to Know
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Vol. 9, No. 1 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Protecting Your Hospital’s Confidential Patient Health Information: What Trustees
Need to Know
- Governance Insights: The Board’s Role in Nurturing a Positive Workplace Culture
- Spotlight on Reform: What Does the Election Mean for Health Care Reform?
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Vol. 8, No. 4 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Key Indicators of "Exemplary Governance"
- Governance Insights: Conducting a "Best Practices" Board Performance Assessment
- Boardroom Basics: Ensuring an Ethics-Driven Organization
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Vol. 8, No. 3 - Content Includes:
- Special Edition: Extraordinary Leadership in Extraordinary Times: What Health Care Reform Means for Trustees. Following months of expectation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed and signed into effect. This special 12-page newsletter focuses on the reform Act and its implications for trustee leadership.
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Vol. 8, No. 2 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: The Board’s Role in CEO Compensation and Performance Evaluation
- Boardroom Basics: Exceptional Community Service: The Governance Connection
- Hot Topic: An Inside Look at the IRS’ Revised Form 990
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Vol. 8, No. 1 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Building the Foundation for Success: Developing Powerful and Purposeful Mission, Values and Vision
- Boardroom Basics: The Board's Role in Strategic Planning
- Hot Topic: Understanding Your Environment: Practical Processes for Understanding Community Needs and Environmental Trends
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Vol. 7, No. 4 - Content Includes:
- A special edition devoted to health care trends and implications for governing boards, highlighting seven areas for trustees to consider as they move forward in planning for 2010 and beyond:
- Changing demographics will continue to shape the system's future direction and focus
- Health care coverage for every legal U.S. resident is a driving force
- The need for organizational efficiency and effectiveness will in large measure define hospital success
- Information and medical technology will be key strategic differentiators
- Value and quality will increasingly define payment, rather than procedures
- Wellness and coordinated care will be emphasized
- There will be an increased emphasis on information
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Vol. 7, No. 3 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: In Pursuit of Governance Perfection: Governance for Maximum Leadership Effectiveness
- Governance Insights: Joining Forces: A Trustee’s Guide to Organizational Affiliations
- Hot Topic: Preparing for Best Practice Community Benefit Reporting and Communication
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Vol. 7, No. 2 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Critical Conversations: Leadership Discussions the Board Should Have Now
- Governance Insights: Value-Based Purchasing: Implications for Governing Boards
- Hot Topic: Tough times, New Administration: What Health Care Reform Will Require of Boards
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Vol. 7, No. 1 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Hospital Billing and Collections: The Scrutiny Isn't Going Away
- Governance Insights: Resolutions for Healthy Governance in 2009 and Beyond
- Hot Topic: Navigating Through Change: The Board's Role in Difficult Economic Times
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Vol. 6, No. 4 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: The Board's Fiduciary Responsibility: Putting the Community's Trust into Action
- Governance Insights: Supercharging Your Hospital's Governance Substructure: How to Build Effective Committees, Task Forces and Advisory Councils
- Hot Topic: The Board's Role in Disaster Readiness: Gustav and Ike as Wake-Up Calls
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Vol. 6, No. 3 - Content Includes:
- Hot Topic: Board Compensation: Good Policy or Bad Practice?
- Leadership Perspectives: Driving Dialogue, Strengthening Understanding, Building Trust: Governance Opportunities to Shape Community Health Care Reform Discussions
- Boardroom Basics: Governance "Never Events": Ten Leadership Failures That Should Never Occur in Hospital Boardrooms
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Vol. 6, No. 2 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Ensuring Conflict-Free Governance
- Governance Insights: Health Care Unions: Governance Issues and Imperatives
- Hot Topic: The Case for Governance Certification
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Vol. 6, No. 1 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: 100 Ideas for Governance Improvement in 2008
- Hot Topic: Inside the IRS's Newly-Revised Form 990
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Vol. 5, No. 4 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Preventing and Curing Governance Diseases: Practical Prescriptions for Improving Governance Health and Wellness
- Trustee Toolbox: Addressing Community Needs Through a Community Needs and Perceptions Assessment
- Hot Topic: Medical Tourism: A Non-Factor or a Real Competitive Threat?
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Vol. 5, No. 3 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Communicating Value: Using Your Community Benefit Report to Maximize Understanding, Loyalty and Support
- Boardroom Basics: What Boards Need to Know About Facilities Planning and Capital Acquisition
- Hot Topic: "One Stop Shopping": A Look at Trends in Retail Based Clinics
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Vol. 5, No. 2 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Driving Change: Integrating Mission, Values and Vision into Board Leadership
- Boardroom Basics: Implementing a Quality Dashboard to Monitor and Improve Quality and Patient Safety
- Governance Insights: Avoiding Governance Errors
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Vol. 5, No. 1 - Content Includes:
- A special edition exclusively devoted to the most critical responsibilities of hospital boards in today’s accountability-focused health care environment. Each section includes a brief overview of the board’s role, followed by various leadership actions and characteristics a healthy board should exhibit. The "Healthy Boards, Healthy Governance Practices: Strategies for Success in 2007" includes ideas for improvement in eight critical board responsibility areas:
- Mission, Values and Vision
- Strategic Planning
- Leadership Structures and Governance Processes
- Quality and Patient Safety
- Community Relationships
- Relationship with the CEO
- Relationship with the Medical Staff
- Community Health
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Vol. 4, No. 4 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Planning for CEO Succession: Where There's a Will, There's a Way
- Boardroom Basics: Meetings People Remember - For the Right Reasons
- Governance Insights: Image in the Balance: The Governing Board's Role in Media Relations
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Vol. 4, No. 3 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Leadership Habits of Highly Successful Governing Boards
- Governance Insights: Building the Governance "Knowledge Bank" for Better Decision Making
- Book Review: Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards
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Vol. 4, No. 2 - Content Includes:
- Leadership Perspectives: Becoming a Community-Centered Board
- Governance Insights: Inside the Malcolm Baldrige Health Care Quality Award: What it Takes to Be a Winner
- Boardroom Basics: Building Accountability and Transparency in Governance Practices
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Vol. 4, No. 1 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Planning Today for Tomorrow's Trustee Leaders
- Governance Insights: Creating a Positive Workplace Culture
- Leadership Perspectives: Maximize the Value of Your Board Retreat
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Vol. 3, No. 4 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: The Role of the Board Chair
- Governance Insights: The Challenges of Limited-Service Providers to Hospitals' Mission
- Trustee Advisory: The Board's Role in Disaster Readiness
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Vol. 3, No. 3 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Ensuring Transparency in Health Care
- Boardroom Basics: The Board's Role in Strategic Planning
- Leadership Perspectives: Governance Accountabilities and Opportunities in the Quest for Quality
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Vol. 3, No. 2 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: The Board's Role in CEO Compensation and Performance Evaluation
- Boardroom Basics: Ensuring Trustful Governance
- Trustee Toolbox: Demystifying Hospital Financial Statements: What Every Trustee Should Know
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Vol. 3, No. 1 - Content Includes:
- A special edition dedicated to an examination of the trends, issues and challenges that board members should understand in today's healthcare environment. The Healthcare Trendpoints includes an overview of the following 11 trends and their implications:
- Workforce Shortage
- Demographics and Consumers
- Healthcare Financing
- Ensuring Access to Care
- Billing and Collections
- Limited Service Providers
- Medical Liability
- Quality and Patient Safety
- Science and Technology Advances
- Regulatory Relief and Reform
- Public Trust and Accountability
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Vol. 2, No. 4 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: The Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on Hospital Governance
- Governance Briefs: News, Trends and Tools for Hospital Governance
- Trustee Toolbox: Meeting the Health Care Workforce Challenge
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Vol. 2, No. 3 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Addressing Public Concerns About Hospital Billing and Collections
- Governance Insights: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
- Governance Briefs: News, Trends and Tools for Hospital Governance
- Trustee Toolbox: Building Strong Strategic Governance
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Vol. 2, No. 2 - Content Includes:
- Boardroom Basics: Board/Medical Staff Alignment
- Governance Insights: Designing the Future Board
- Trustee Toolbox: Building Better Board/CEO Relationships
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Vol. 2, No. 1 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Preparing for Tomorrow
- Boardroom Basics: Getting off to a Good Start
- Trustee Toolbox: How to Conduct a Board of Trustees Self-Assessment
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Vol. 1, No. 4 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Transforming Your Hospital from "Good to Great"
- Financial Basics for Trustees
- Measuring Organizational Accountability
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Vol. 1, No. 3 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Consumer Driven Health Care
- Creating a Visionary Board
- Winning the Talent Wars
- Building Board Dialogue
- Readiness for the Future Checklist
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Vol. 1, No. 2 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Workforce Shortages
- Boardroom Basics: Medical Staff Credentialing
- Trustee Advisory: Medical Liability Insurance
- Workforce Preparedness Questionnaire
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Vol. 1, No. 1 - Content Includes:
- Governance Insights: Patient Safety and the Board
- Trustee Advisory: Disaster Readiness, the Board's Preparedness Challenges
- Boardroom Basics: Avoiding Governance Errors
- QuickTest: What is Your Board Doing to Reduce Governance Errors?
- ActionAgenda: Reducing Governance Errors
- Hospital and Community Disaster Readiness Checklist
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