governWell™: The Governance Tools and Resources You Need in One Place

Demands for greater levels of governance accountability require motivated, knowledgeable trustees who understand how to think and lead strategically. Trustees need credible information and readily accessible tools, templates and materials in order to meet the increasing demands of board service and the complexity of the challenges that are confronting boards today.

Over the course of more than 25 years of governance consulting, The Walker Company has developed a robust library of resources as we’ve helped hospital and health system CEOs and their boards of trustees raise their performance to meet a broad spectrum of concerns as they strive to fulfill their organizations’ mission and achieve its vision.

governWell™ is a comprehensive yet easy to use package of needed governance resources. A single source of valuable governance programs, BoardBriefs, templates and tools, governWell™ will enable your board to practice better governance and ensure better health care for your community.

What Our Clients Say

"Larry Walker has created one of the most powerful governance tolls I’ve ever encountered. Comprehensive, user friendly, and elegant, governWell™ has my Trustee Organization and Education Committee raving!”

-Todd Linden, FACHE
President and CEO, Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Grinnell, IA

“This ‘consultant in the box’ will maximize the leadership readiness and performance required of boards in today's very challenging environment. governWell™ gives boards a ‘quick start’ to develop and rapidly implement high quality board education, policies, committee charters, new board member orientation, board self-assessment and much more—all customizable and able to be custom-tailored to an individual board's needs and opportunities. It's a money and time-saving resource for any board seeking to ensure governing excellence."

-Mary Klimp, Administrator
Mayo Clinic Health System, New Prague, MN

"Hospital trustees want to ensure great health care for their community, but it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the complexities of health care. High-performance governance is crucial for these hospitals to have their best chance at success. governWell™ helps boards focus on the most fundamental aspects of their important work and improve their effectiveness. It provides affordable, customizable, easy-to-use tools to speed governance improvement. Utilizing governWell™can simply help boards to govern better.”

-Tim Putnam, DHA, FACHE
CEO, Margaret Mary Health, Batesville, IN

What's Included in governWell™
Each of the 11 governWell™ modules provide your board with everything needed to advance the board’s knowledge, skills, structure, practices and capacity for success in this transforming and increasingly changing environment.

1. LearnWell™ includes a comprehensive set of pre-recorded 20-30 minute knowledge-building programs and BoardBriefs on a range of governance responsibilities and hot topics in health care governance. LearnWellTM also includes PowerPoint® programs on boardroom topics that can be custom-tailored by you to meet your unique board and committee meeting presentation needs. In addition, LearnWellTM includes a glossary of definitions for hundreds of key health care terms and acronyms, and links to resources and reports that will add new knowledge for your board.
2. AssessWell™ includes everything your hospital or health system board needs to custom-tailor and implement governance self-assessments that result in governance-building initiatives and action plans for building “governance gain.”
3. RecruitWell™ includes customizable materials that help boards assess the skills, knowledge and expertise required of new trustees, and align those capabilities with the board’s future governing leadership needs.
4. LeadWell™ includes customizable resources for hospital and health system boards to develop a well thought-out CEO succession plan.
5. TaskWell™ includes sample committee charters that can be custom-tailored for the most common board committees.
6. GuideWell™ includes customizable sample policies and procedures, including IRS Form 990-related policies and other hospital and health system governance-related policies on topics such as board education, board meeting conduct, and more.
7. OrientWell™ includes customizable information about trustee roles and responsibilities and health care trends, with placeholders for the inclusion of unique information about the hospital, the market, board members, and more.
8. CompareWell™ includes a comprehensive checklist of governance best practices and a document that will enable your board to benchmark its governance structure and practices with findings from a recent national study of hospital governing boards.
9. RetreatWell™ includes sample retreat materials and retreat preparation resources to help your board and leadership team prepare for and ensure a successful board retreat.
10. AffiliateWell™ includes sample materials to assist hospitals in exploring opportunities for affiliation. It includes a sample work plan, employee and community surveys, a sample request for proposal, and more.
11. MeasureWell™ includes a customizable scorecard with a broad range of indicators, including quality and patient safety, patient satisfaction, strategic performance, financial and operating indicators, and community health status goals.
    

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