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This podcast highlights issues such as: prospective board authorizations for emergency spending and policy modifications; logistics for emergency board meetings and decision making; how boards can support and equally importantly not be a burden to management; clarifying emergency authority between system and subsidiary boards; what boards and their members should NOT do; the need for deeper executive and board succession planning; and others.

Boards should assess the impact of change on their organization’s executive compensation program and committee practices.

Ongoing board education that includes newer modalities and technologies will increase board engagement and improve governance.

Health care leaders are learning more about burnout and working together to better address it.

The next curve of systemization is leveraging additional opportunities to achieve greater synergy across health care organizations.

There are better ways to honor and, as appropriate, continue to involve former trustees, while also adhering to the higher standards demanded of boards today.

Is granting an outgoing trustee ‘emeritus status’ a thing of the past?

As this grid suggests, good governance decision-making, when supported by a variety of board practices and tools, strengthens the board as a whole and its capacity to govern well.

High performing boards learn how to make decisions at the right time using the right processes.

By adopting practices that embrace innovation, boards are better prepared to plan for change.

Continued changes in health care, both evolutionary and revolutionary, will require a steady hand and an open mind.

Governance restructuring efforts of eight health systems provide lessons on redefining what it means to be a community board.

Organizations must rethink their approach to build customer engagement and loyalty.

Webinar: A board only exists when it is meeting. This means that the single most precious commodity that a board possesses is its time together. The best boards consciously strive to use their meeting time efficiently and effectively.

Checklists A Trustee Checklist to Address Time Challenges As health care organizations face a number of emerging challenges, the compensation committee of the not-for-profit hospital and health system board is well served to review and update the executive compensation program periodically.

With training and support, physicians can become effective team leaders.

Boards can advocate for policy changes or ways to harness community resources.

Staying forward-focused as a trustee requires a combination of time management, prioritization and preventive efforts.

As payers shift financial risk to providers through more advanced payment models, trustees will need to help their organizations build new capabilities for succeeding under these payment arrangements.

Webinar: The first thing any effective board or leadership group does is decide how it will make decisions. Further, effective boards develop different, clearly defined processes to make decisions of different magnitudes. Yet, many boards have never had an explicit conversation about or developed multiple approaches to this most critical of governance functions — their decision making. This webinar will outline several different, practical and effective decision making techniques to expand your board’s tool kit of processes and techniques for making effective decisions.