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Our updated reference booklet is full of the most common, need-to-know acronyms and terms in the healthcare industry. More Info
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This updated manual offers a comprehensive guide to board member responsibilities and roles and provides specific questions you will want to have answered as your organization puts you through its board orientation program. More Info
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Hospital and health system preparedness for the economic and organizational changes that will occur over the next decade is a top priority for healthcare leaders. The Governance Institute and Kaufman Hall firmly believe that all organizations could benefit from an understanding of where they are currently positioned on the readiness continuum. With this objective in mind, The Governance Institute partnered with Kaufman Hall to develop and implement a broad-reaching survey to gauge CEOs’ perceptions of their organizations’ current readiness for the new business environment. This white paper presents the survey findings and offers examples of organizations that have achieved a high degree of preparedness in selected capabilities.
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Despite what you may have heard recently, director compensation plans remain a valuable non-profit governance tool in most states. Nevertheless, recent related controversies offer non-profit boards a useful opportunity to “kick the tires” of existing and proposed director compensation plans to ensure their legal and “optical” feasibility. This is especially the case in today’s challenging economic environment where regulators are increasingly sensitive to constituent concerns with respect to perceived excessive compensation and self-dealing. This article explores the current controversy around this issue and stresses the need for non-profit boards to address the legal and policy concerns for director compensation programs. More Info
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Volume 1 of the Advisors’ Corner Anthology provides 20 insightful articles from the Advisors’ Corner, a regular column in the The Governance Institute’s BoardRoom Press. Written by our Governance Advisors, the column provides practical insights and guidance to Governance Institute members by addressing governance issues faced by boards of tax-exempt hospitals and health systems. More Info
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On March 31, 2011, CMS released the long-awaited proposed accountable care organization (ACO) regulations (the “proposed rule”) for public comment. This article summarizes the 400-plus-page “proposed rule,” and provides details on proposed waivers under fraud and abuse laws, antitrust enforcement policy, and IRS’ preliminary guidance for participating in an ACO. More Info
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Physicians can no longer simply focus on the effectiveness of their interventions. This changing environment demands
a responsibility for assessing the efficiency and the appropriateness of care, and the quality of the patient experience as well. What is required is a more balanced and integrative accountability. More Info
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The imperative to improve quality and safety while maximizing appropriate productivity translates into the need for dramatic improve¬ment in efficiency. Most hospital processes are notoriously inefficient, having been developed gradually and organically in the face of one stress, and one innovation, after another. For one thing, the number of accommodations that need to be made for emergent and unscheduled care makes efficiency an ephemeral goal for many of our hospitals. In addition, there is the need to accommodate staff—in particular, physi¬cians—who expect their own schedules and time commitments to be honored. The technologies on which we rely increasingly exert their own demands upon us, for access is often limited. Finally, the capital investment necessary for a fully functional information system that might drive efficiency is very difficult to amass, leaving most healthcare organizations stranded somewhere between archaic paper processes and fully implemented electronic solutions. More Info
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The failures of Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Chrysler, and General Motors signal a gross restructuring of the American economy. So do the mortgage crisis, the bankruptcies of countless other firms, and the budgetary challenges of state and local governments. Healthcare is facing a crisis of a different sort. Ever-rising costs are making healthcare unaf¬fordable, and the recession is making it even more unaffordable. More Info
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In a white paper addressed to The Joint Commission, two distinguished healthcare attorneys argue for a new paradigm in hospital–physician relationships around governance. They appeal to The Joint Commission to relinquish its support for the historic “American Model” of medical staff organization and governance, which they believe is inhibiting the movement for safer and higher quality healthcare institutions. More Info
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