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Building an Exceptional Board: Effective Practices for Health Care Governance
HRET and the Center for Healthcare Governance, with funding from Russell Reynolds Associates, convened a Blue Ribbon Panel to examine critical issues facing health care boards and practices that lead to exceptional governance. The report includes the panel’s recommendations as well as sample tools and resources.

Governance in High-Performing Organizations: A Comparative Study of Governing Boards in Not-For-Profit Hospitals, Lawrence D. Prybil, MA, PhD
This timely study examines governance in high performing, not-for-profit hospitals and compares selected attributes with those of organizations with performance in the median.  The study looks at board structure, roles, and practices and will help CEOs and boards in their ongoing efforts to improve governance practices and to identify opportunities for improvement.

Hospital Governance: Initial Summary Report of 2005 Survey of CEOs and Board Chairs
In spring and summer 2005, HRET surveyed US hospital CEOs and their Board chairs for a comprehensive look at how Boards operate.

A Great Board, Howard Berman
After years of experience with nonprofit boards—as a CEO reporting to boards, a board member and chair—Howard Berman shares his insights on what works and what doesn't. Berman establishes nine "guide star" or benchmark principles that govern the actions of the CEO, board chair, board as a whole, and individual board members.