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Building an Effective CEO-Board Partnership
The past few years have only made things harder for new CEOs, with the impact of COVID-19 creating a volatile, politicized environment on top of existential organizational challenges. Even with all that, a big surprise for a new CEO is how much time and energy are required to establish and nurture an effective strategic partnership with your board so as to add value to the organization.
Position Description for a Health System or Hospital Board Member
Trustee Articles
The role of the board is to govern, not manage, the organization. To that end, the board carries out four roles...
Roles & Responsibilities of the VP of Philanthropy
Trustee Articles
The VP of Philanthropy’s overarching responsibility is to promote philanthropic investment by donor partners in the health care organization in order to advance the mission. However, the role encompasses far more. Together with the foundation board and health care CEO, this individual works with internal and external constituencies to build a culture of philanthropy that goes beyond transactional fundraising to build lasting, fruitful relationships rooted in a shared vision.
Responding to a Community Mental Health Crisis
How collaboration with community partners and identification of resources allowed Carroll Hospital to improve coordinated behavioral health services.
Board Leadership in Challenging Times
Carolyn F. Scanlan, vice chair of Penn Medicine Lancaster (Pa.) General Health, discusses how governing boards can best address some of the challenges ahead in 2021.
Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems
Hospital and health system trustees can help move forward an evidence-based framework to achieve better health for an aging population with complex care needs.
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.
Board Diversity Survey to Advance Health Equity
Understanding a board’s aptitude and ability to advance health equity should be a key element of board strategy.
Boardroom Brief: How Boards Can Support Workforce Behavioral Health
This document, developed by AHA Trustee Services and AHA’s Behavioral Health teams, intends to educate and raise awareness for trustees about suicide prevention and the role that hospital and health system boards can play in this very important public health issue.