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Succession Planning: The Board-CEO Partnership

Boards and CEOs must constructively address the succession imperative. Succession planning for the CEO and other senior leadership positions is critical to organizational continuity and stability, especially in a transforming healthcare field.
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Revisiting Executive Incentive Compensation: A New Challenge

Incentive compensation plans are intended to focus executives’ attention on their organizations’ most vital priorities and initiatives. As health care organizations revise their business strategies to address the ongoing transformation of care delivery and payment, health care boards also need to reassess the structure and measures of performance in their executive incentive compensation plans.
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Asset Stewardship and the Board's 3 for Understanding and Improving Operational Efficiency

Asset stewardship has long been a key board responsibility. As fiduciaries of a health care organization’s assets, governing boards are required to act in the best interest of the organization, ensuring that resources are used in a reasonable, appropriate and legally accountable way to meet community health care needs.
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Board Legal Fiduciary Duties

All state statutory and case law holds that directors of nonprofit, 501(c)(3), corporations must serve as stakeholder (owner) agents, acting in ways that protect and advance their interests. Legalities aside, this is the foundation of great governance. In order to fulfill this obligation, directors must discharge three legal fiduciary duties: loyalty, care and obedience.
Board Policies

Sample Conflicts of Interest and Documentation Form

This Conflicts of Interest and Documentation Policy (“Policy”) applies to all directors and officers of ....
Board Policies

Sample General Principles Regarding Conflict of Interest

The following document is intended to be an example that boards should adapt to meet their individual needs.
Trustee Articles

Aligning Governance and Business Models to Achieve the Best Fit

The traditional acute-care hospital is becoming just one of the entities within a larger system that probably includes primary and specialty care clinics, ambulatory care sites, behavioral health care and post-acute care. In addition, the systems may be employing physicians, developing robust philanthropic organizations, developing entrepreneurial businesses, conducting research and offering medical education.
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Best Governance Practices: Not Just for Goliaths

Today’s hospital leaders know their trustees must be more adaptable, connected and knowledgeable about the changing health care landscape than any of their predecessors. But do they believe their volunteer community board is truly capable of stepping up to current field challenges?
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Board Development: A Marathon Not a Sprint

Whether a board’s starting point is average performance or mediocrity, the journey to the top echelon of governance effectiveness cannot be achieved with a few quick steps. Board development is more like a marathon than a sprint.