Trustee Services

American Hospital Association content from its Trustee Services team on governance and hospital and health system boards and trustees.

June 2, 2020 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET; 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CT; 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PT. 
This video library includes: A Trustee’s Guide to Population Health: Building New Foundations Linking Care with Community; The Board’s Role in a Changing Health Care Environment and Eliminating Harm; and Improving Patient Care: A Trustee Guide. These video series' include video modules, discussion…
Trustee Involvement  The AHA has numerous avenues for trustee involvement and participation in the Association’s governance, grassroots advocacy, policy development and field leadership initiatives. Appointments for trustees are available on two AHA committees annually – the Committee on…
The Committee on Governance (COG) is one of several advisory committees of the AHA Board. The COG represents AHA’s trustees by participating in the AHA’s advocacy, policy, and resource development, with a particular focus on strategic opportunities.
About Us AHA Trustee Services serves as the hub for the AHA’s broad array of efforts to raise the performance of hospital and health system boards and to help boards navigate the transforming health care landscape.
Strong, informed governance is vital in this rapidly changing health care landscape. This is your source for the latest resources, tools & education.
As the health care field continues to shift its focus from volume to value, leaders from three major academic health systems are asking surgeons hospitals to minimize the number of patients who undergo certain surgeries to prevent complications linked to insufficient practice.
Participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s Independence at Home demonstration saved more than $25 million in the payment model’s first performance year while delivering high-quality patient care in the home, CMS recently announced.
This is an excerpt of real-time analysis of today’s Supreme Court ruling provided by Sean Marotta, an associate in the Washington office of Hogan Lovells, who focuses on appellate and Supreme Court litigation, and is outside counsel for the American Hospital Association. Marotta will be…
The National Patient Safety Foundation recently released guidelines to help health professionals standardize their use of root cause analysis and renamed the process “RCA2” to emphasize the fact that preventing harm requires both analysis and action to be taken. The guidelines offer…