"This scorecard has been an incredible tool. It is so simple, and board members love it,"
George Kerwin, president and CEO, Bellin Health System, Green Bay, Wisconsin, on his organization's 18-measure quality scorecard, featured in the spring 2010 issue of Great Boards
Great Boards Newsletter
- New! Spring 2010 issue: Applying Sarbanes Oxley to board oversight of quality; Board quality practices and measures; Board oversight of physician compensation
- Winter 2009 issue: Clinically Integrated Physician Hospital Organizations; Board Portals
- Fall 2009 issue: Public transparency; "Know What You Don't Know," an interview with author Michael A. Roberto
- Summer 2009 issue: New IRS Form 990
- Spring 2009 issue: Interview with Rulon Stacey, CEO of Poudre Valley Health System, winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Award; The Right Ways to Employ Physicians
- Back issues and reprints from the Great Boards newsletter
- Free subscription
Effective Governance Practices
- New! Who is an Independent Director? (courtesy of The Governance Institute)
- "Drill Baby, Drill" Is Not Appropriate Boardroom Practice (courtesy of The Governance Institute)
- Evaluating and Improving Board Committees, including sample assessment questions for nine common committees
- The System-Subsidiary Relationship in Hospital Governance (courtesy of The Governance Institute)
- Distinguishing governance and management
- Institutional Integrity
- Effective agendas and meetings
- Evaluating individual trustees
Current Topics
What's New
- New! Webinars from The Governance Institute -- Payment & Delivery System Reform: Board Responsibilities & Strategic Responses, April 1
- New! Audit and Compliance Conference for board members
- New! Great Boards' Buyer's Guide to Board Portals
- New! Briefing Paper: Board's Role in Mergers and Alliances
- New! The Executive Committee: Uses and Abuses
- New! The Board Quality Committee Goes to Work
- Timely governance news and comments on the Great Boards blog: http://greatboardsblog.wordpress.com/.
- Presentation and retreat topics for 2009
Quality and Patient Safety
- New! Applying Sarbanes Oxley to the Board's Quality Oversight Role (Great Boards newsletter reprint)
- New! Focusing Boards on the Right Quality Measures (Great Boards newsletter reprint)
- New! The Board Quality Committee Goes to Work
- How PVHS Won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Healthcare: Link to resources
- Differentiating board and committee work on quality
- Engaging your board
- 7 things boards do to improve quality
- Sample charter for a Quality Committee
Finance and Strategic Planning
- New! Healthcare Policy: Seven Questions Boards Must Ask to Respond (courtesy of The Governance Institute)
- Case Studies on how to align with physicians: Aurora Health Care, Guthrie Health, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, St. John's Health System, and Summa Health System
- Integrating financial and strategic planning
- Sample charter for a Finance Committee
- Sample charter for a Strategic Planning Committee
- What boards should know about physician compensation
- Board's role in strategic planning
- Sample performance dashboard
- Community benefit