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Rapid HIV Testing

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 CST

Rapid HIV Testing

Speaking Out

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 CST

Speaking Out

Tools for Exceptional Governance

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 CST

Tools for Exceptional Governance

Quality of Care at Safety Net Hospitals: Do Findings Vary Based on How One Defines Safety Net Hospitals'

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

AcademyHealth Annual Meeting
June 2009

2007 Blue Ribbon Panel Report

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

Building an Exceptional Board: Effective Practices for Health Care Governance

Health care governance is at a crossroads. As boards shift away from a focus on compliance and monitoring toward a value-added orientation, their work is migrating beyond an emphasis on operations and toward strategic and collaborative leadership. At this juncture, several fundamental questions emerge that must be addressed to facilitate governance transformation. These questions include:

Are boards, as they exist and operate today, truly necessary for future success in health care' Why'
Has past health care governance added maximum value for health care organizations and their stakeholders' If so, how, and if not, why not'
If boards are to play an important future role, what changes to their structure, function, processes, and culture are necessary'
What barriers exist that impede board effectiveness'

HRET, with funding from Russell Reynolds and Associates and the Center for Healthcare Governance, convened a Blue Ribbon Panel on Healthcare Governance to examine key health care governance practices to determine:

The critical practices that boards must perform well to effectively and strategically lead their organizations now and into the future
Aspects of current governance that need to be re-examined or modified to meet future challenges and to improve overall performance and accountability
New insights about governance—in health care and other sectors—that have important implications specifically for health care boards
Information and resources that boards will need in order to better understand how they can improve performance of these practices and transform their thinking to increase overall governance effectiveness and move toward becoming exceptional boards

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2009 Blue Ribbon Panel Report

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

Competency-Based Governance: A Foundation for Board and Organizational Effectiveness

Are boards, as they exist and operate today, truly necessary for future success in health care' Why'
Has past health care governance added maximum value for health care organizations and their stakeholders' If so, how, and if not, why not'
If boards are to play an important future role, what changes to their structure, function, processes, and culture are necessary'
What barriers exist that impede board effectiveness'

Funded by global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company Hospira, Inc, the Blue Ribbon Panel on Trustee Core Competencies was convened in 2008 to build on the earlier panel’s work:

to identify individual board member core competencies common to different types of boards that can be used to improve board and organizational performance; and
to provide guidance and direction for the field in developing educational and other resources that can be used to apply these competencies to the work of hospital and health system governing boards.

Panel members drew on their own experiences and reviewed work done by others to develop board and leadership competencies for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. In addition to developing individual board member competencies, the panel also considered what makes a board an effective team and identified tools and resources to help boards begin to apply competencies to health care organiz

264 Years Is Too Long

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

264 Years Is Too Long

Connecting with Patients

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

Connecting with Patients

Collecting Data to Improve Patient Care

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

Collecting Data to Improve Patient Care

A New Era for Health Reform

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

A New Era for Health Reform