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Trustee Articles

Managing Capital Project Risks in a Challenging Environment

This monograph discusses today’s market environment, current capital market perspective and related risks, and then outlines a project management approach and questions that must be addressed to help board members and executives more effectively manage capital project risks while achieving organizational strategies and goals.
Evaluations and Assessments

Governance Improvement Practical Technique: Post-Board Meeting "Mini" Evaluations

To maintain the momentum of continuous governance improvement, many "best practices" boards institute regular mini-evaluations of board meetings. Here, each board meeting concludes with every board member anonymously completing a brief evaluation form of how the board planned for and used its time during the meeting.
Trustee Articles

Trustee Mentoring: For Orientation, Leadership Development and More

Mentoring, a process that pairs board members who are new to their roles with more seasoned board and executive resources for growth and development, traditionally has been used by health care boards to orient new trustees for board service.
Trustee Articles

Sample Board Orientation Manual Index

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

Competency-Based Governance Toolkit

The role of a health care organization trustee gets more complicated and more sophisticated every day. Pressures are increasing simultaneously for higher quality, lower cost, more transparency and accountability, and use of evolving and evermore expensive technology.
News

AHA action community focuses on age-friendly health care

The first AHA Age-Friendly Health Systems action community concluded this month, with 184 health care teams and 12 allied associations across the U.S. participating.
News

GAO reports on federal antibiotic resistance efforts

The Government Accountability Office recommended certain actions to enhance federal efforts to monitor and address antibiotic resistance.
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100 Million Mask Challenge lights up Times Square

Nasdaq MarketSite, the physical presence of the Nasdaq stock market in New York City’s Times Square, lit up with the 100 Million Mask Challenge.
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New tool connects hospitals with compounders who can provide drugs in shortage

The Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding has launched a free tool for connecting hospitals with 503B outsourcing facilities, or alternatively, 503A sterile compounding pharmacies, that can supply shortage drugs to treat COVID-19.
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AHA resource spotlights efforts to address social needs and health inequity during COVID-19

A new AHA resource examines the impact of the social determinants of health on patients and communities as they battle the COVID-19 outbreak.