The Governance Institute collaborates with many other organizations that share our goal of improving board performance to improve healthcare performance. We are pleased to make external resources from these organizations available to Governance Institute members.

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Alvarez & Marsal

Governance of High-Performing Non-Profit Hospital Systems

This report, based on a survey of 17 high-performing non-profit hospital systems, examines evolving governance challenges, explores governance models, and offers evidence-based best practices to enhance board effectiveness. The report highlights strategies for aligning governance with organizational goals, fostering system-wide integration, and addressing the complexities of leadership in today’s healthcare landscape. The Governance Institute participated in reviewing pre-publication report drafts and contributed the Foreword.

ACHE

A Seat at the Table: An Examination of Hospital Governing Board Diversity, 2011–2021

Board diversity is increasingly important for hospitals and healthcare systems, with national attention focused on eliminating health disparities and improving health equity. Yet, it remains a challenge despite concerted efforts by leading professional associations (e.g., American College of Healthcare Executives) to galvanize their constituents around the importance of the issue.

American Health Law Association

Using Artificial Intelligence in the Health Care Boardroom

A new study from the Stanford Graduate School of Business provides an important new perspective on how artificial intelligence can be used effectively in support of the operations of the corporate board of directors.

Board First Consulting, LLC

Governing at the Appropriate Level in a Changing Marketplace

Board members who completed the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) 2023 Board Trends and Priorities Survey identified the following as the top five trends that will have the most significant impact on their companies in the next 12 months.

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

Cyber Oversight Effectiveness Development: A New Approach for Boards of Directors

A new framework, Cyber Oversight Effectiveness Development (COED), developed by the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity in partnership with Tapestry Networks and King & Spalding, aims to address these gaps and help boards become more resilient and adaptive. It is predicated on the belief that cyber risk often requires fundamentally different treatment than other risks, such as health and safety or fraud.

Clearwater

Health AI Governance: Navigating the Complexities and Risks

Jon Moore, Head of Consulting Services and Client Success and Chief Risk Officer, Clearwater, speaks with Leah Voigt, Chief Compliance Officer, Corewell Health, and Dr. Mark Sendak, Population Health and Data Science Lead, Duke Institute for Health Innovation, about the policies, procedures, and structures that guide the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. They discuss developing ethical principles and decision-making processes to guide AI use cases, fostering effective collaboration and dialogue about the use of AI, transparency and consent, federal agency and state law developments, ensuring representative data in creating AI, and opportunities and risks. Leah and Mark spoke about this topic at AHLA’s 2024 Complexities of AI in Health Care in Chicago, IL.

Healthcare Executive's Governance Insights

Patients Are ‘Patient’ No Longer

In healthcare, patients lie at the center of decisions made and actions taken. Board meetings or leadership retreats often begin with patients top of mind—perhaps by sharing a reflection on a patient experience or reading a letter written by someone recently treated. But, as leaders get into the myriad challenges they face—issues with access, reimbursement, workforce, physician shortages, employee burnout or other operational and cultural challenges—they can begin to lose that all-important focus on the patient.

HHS

Knowledge on Demand

Knowledge on Demand (KOD) is a cybersecurity education platform that includes multiple delivery methodologies to reach the varied size health care facilities across the country. Five cybersecurity trainings that align with the top five cybersecurity threats outlined in HICP are featured for training your healthcare staff, security team, and any other department that is on the front lines for protecting patient safety. The best part about this resource? It’s FREE!

IHI

Turn on the Lights Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Peter Margolis, Co-Director Emeritus of the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and Dr. Daniel Hyman, Principal and Founder of Frontline Quality Solutions, LLC, discuss the learning health network model, which involves communities working together to improve health by sharing information and working together. They cover the history of collaboratives, highlighting the importance of translating evidence into practice and building reliability.

Jarrard, A Chartis Company

Gun Violence Positioning for Healthcare Organizations

As pressure mounts across society to solve the public health crisis of gun violence, leading hospitals and health systems are going beyond being places that physically care for victims and fully engaging in developing solutions to this epidemic. Not only do provider organizations have communications plans to prepare for a shooting on-site or in their community, but they are also developing clearly articulated positions backed by action that leverages their power as a trusted voice.

Kaufman Hall

Walmart’s Primary Care Failure Is Important and a Problem

On February 7, 2008, Walmart announced that it would open the first Walmart co-branded walk-in clinics at its stores in Atlanta, Dallas, and Little Rock, with plans to expand to 400 in-store clinics by 2010. On August 8, 2014, Walmart announced it would expand on its existing five primary care centers to a total of 12 by the end of the year. These centers would offer more extensive services than those provided in Walmart walk-in clinics, including chronic disease management.

McDermott Will & Emery

Mid-Year Reflections on Corporate Governance Trends

A review of current developments prompts these mid-year reflections on governance trends to date in 2025.

NACD

Risk Committee Blueprint: Guidance for Board Risk Oversight

The Risk Committee Blueprint from NACD provides guidance for boards to elevate risk oversight. Report recommendations build on previous risk governance guidelines prepared by NACD and were guided by a Working Group of eight members with board roles on public and private companies and nonprofit organizations. In addition, the report includes insights and research from Marsh McLennan, the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people, and research from NACD and elsewhere. (This resource applies to for-profit corporations but includes valuable information that is also relevant to non-profit hospital and health system boards.)

Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC)

Nurses on Boards Coalition Blog

Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC) represents national and state efforts by nurses and others working to build healthier communities. Their mission is to improve the health of communities through the service of nurses on boards and other bodies. NOBC is committed to increasing nurses’ presence and influence on corporate, health-related, and other boards, panels, and commissions.