GREAT BOARDS 2005
The Online Governance Newsletter

Winter 2005

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Evaluating individual trustees’ performance: Best practices for this sensitive process, plus how four health systems do it.
Ten ways to design board meetings for greater engagement and more discussion of strategic issues, plus a sample template for an annual board work and education plan.

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Editor Sharon O’Malley looks at what boards need to know about the new Stark regulations governing hospital-physician relationships, and what hospitals acquiring physician practices have learned from past failures.
Governance consultant Barry Bader looks at whether Sarbanes Oxley is headed for not-for-profits, and offers advice on formulating a board attendance policy.

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How your board can help save 100,000 lives. Great Boards identifies the hospital board’s roles in a nationwide campaign to apply best practices in six critical areas.
Journey to “systemness.” Great Boards’ publisher Barry Bader comments on findings from a new study by The Governance Institute examining whether boards of large systems are acting more like corporate boards of large companies.
Generative governance. Great Boards interviews Richard P. Chait, co-author of Governance as Leadership, about his ground-breaking ideas for engaging trustees’ creative talents.
Board’s role in strategic planning. Board members need to be engaged in strategic planning, but they and management have different roles, explains Idette Elizondo of the University of Maryland Medical System.
Frequently asked questions. We discuss meeting minutes and executive committees.

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New ways to engage the board in strategic planning. Great Boards' editor Sharon O'Malley reports on five health systems using innovative approaches to deepen the board's engagement in strategic planning. Consultants Barry Bader of Bader & Associates and Ed Kazemek of ACCORD Limited describe how to energize a strategic planning process.
Challenges to tax exempt status. Taking your hospital's tax exempt status for granted could be a risky strategy. From local governments to IRS, the pressure on hospitals is growing to demonstrate that their community benefit services exceed the value of their tax exemptions. Read lessons from a health system that lost its property tax exemption, plus 10 strategies for keeping your hospital out of a similar fix.

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