Governance of Healthcare Organizations
Overview:
Hospital and health system board members face increasing challenges, with healthcare reform and other laws demanding improved accountability and efficiency. This webinar reveals the secrets of effective board structure and function, including responsibilities of board members, term limits, recruiting new members and working with the CEO.
Other aspects of a board's work, including monitoring quality, providing financial oversight, and completing a self-assessment process, are also covered. Board members, regardless of their expertise, will find this webinar interesting and educational.
Why should you attend: Governance of hospitals and health systems is important work. How well it is done has tremendous consequences for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve. Also, there are consequences for patients, medical staffs, and employees. This webinar is intended to help new and experienced board members learn "best practices" of effective healthcare boards.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Types of hospital boards and health systems
- Role and responsibility of hospital boards
- Role and responsibility of individual board members
- Role and responsibility of board chairperson
- Information governing boards should receive
- Governance vs. management
- Selecting physician board members
- Optimizing board CEO relationships and CEO as a member of the board
- Term limits for board members
- Age limits for board members
- Designing an effective board orientation program
- Key committees the board should have
- Board's role in monitoring quality of healthcare
- Conflict of interest issues
- How the board should conduct a "self-assessment" process
Who Will Benefit:
- Hospital and Health System Board Members
- CEO's of Hospital and Health Systems
- Other Top Executives in a Healthcare Organization