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Board chair coaching process

A good coach focuses on what the board chair wants to accomplish and designs a coaching process based on how the board chair experiences the role; on assessment of individual strengths and weaknesses; and on identifying and addressing blind spots. Each coaching process should be customized to meet the board chair’s individual needs and goals.
Evaluations and Assessments

The Leadership Audit

To understand how the organization really functions on a day-to-day basis, boards need to gauge the hospital’s work life and its efficacy. Board responsibilities include: (a) understanding the hospital’s operating model and whether it actually performs in that mode, how critical decisions are made, and the hospital’s ability to recognize its own problems and “self-correct”; and (b) ensuring that it happens.
Initiatives/Campaigns

#MyWhy Campaign

As a physician, nurse, respiratory therapist, environmental services or food services worker or other health care professional, your example is one of the strongest health resources we have. When you get your COVID-19 vaccine, please consider sharing your story to help others understand the importance of getting vaccinated.
Trustee Articles

Exploring Ways to Reinvent Generational Recruitment

An emerging group of future health care leaders are ready to take on the challenge of health care board service.
Videos

AHA Video Pays Tribute to Health Care Heroes

The AHA has released a new video thanking the women and men of America's hospitals and health systems for their heroic efforts to care for patients and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trustee Articles

4 Lessons for Navigating a New Reality in Health Care

As the health care field moves from response to recovery, strategic and innovative thinkers have started to share their insights and plans for the road ahead.
Trustee Articles

Team-Based Care Creates Value

Assembling a team of health care providers from diverse professional backgrounds has the power to improve value for hospitals and for patients particularly during COVID-19.
Dynamic Page

AHA Associate Podcast Series | Willis Towers Watson Part 1

Nancy Myers, Vice President, Leadership and System Innovation for the American Hospital Association spoke with David Scheer and Joe Currant, directors in the Health Systems Consulting practice for the Health and Benefits business of Willis Towers Watson. As hospitals and health systems navigate the rebuilding stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the reimagining stage post-pandemic, adjusting value-based contracts and adequately assessing risk will be key to their success. Fortunately, experts on this subject in the business community like Willis Towers Watson are here to help.
Resources

Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Resources on health equity, diversity and inclusion.
CDO Spotlight

Spotlight Feature: Catching Breast Cancer Early through Expanded Community Outreach

In this Spotlight Feature interview, Pamela S. Ganschow, M.D., describes the approach and strategy behind the Cook County Health, Stroger Hospital (bCRISP) initiative and how it’s designed to make a difference.