The Governance Institute’s biennial survey of governance practices is distributed to chief executive officers of not-for-profit acute care hospitals and health systems across the U.S. The 2007 survey covered board composition, board restructuring, term limits, committees, management participation on the board, board meeting frequency, board member compensation, board education, allocation of decision-making responsibilities between systems and subsidiary hospitals, and board meeting content. Respondents were also asked to indicate whether their board follows 85 recommended governance practices and rate their board’s performance on each.
This year’s report offers a deeper look at the survey results. We present the results in the aggregate (which can be found in Chapter 1 of the full report), but we also devote separate chapters to results by type of organization: systems, independent hospitals, hospitals that are part of a system (designated “subsidiary hospitals” for this report), and government-sponsored hospitals. (Individual links are provided below for each chapter).
For more detailed information by organization type and size, additional tables are located at the end of each individual chapter; download the chapter that corresponds to your organization type. These tables show complete results for governance structure and board practices, with weighted averages for each of the 85 recommended practices. The tables highlight most observed and least observed practices for each type of organization, with detail by bed size for independent and subsidiary hospitals, and by county/city and district/authority for government-sponsored hospitals.
The final PDF is a collection of the special commentaries written by our Governance Advisors, Barry Bader, Edward Kazemek, Pamela Knecht, and Roger Witalis. They review the results and provide insights on what boards are doing currently and in what direction boards should be heading based on the survey results.
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Chapter 2: Health Systems
Chapter 3: Independent Hospitals
Chapter 4: Hospitals that Are Part of a Multi-Hospital System
Chapter 5: Government-Sponsored Hospitals
Advisors' Commentary