NEW! Better CEO-Board Relations: Practical Advice for a Successful Partnership
Available at the AHA Online Store
Among all the duties health care boards must oversee and execute, none is more critical to the organization’s long-term success than the working relationship with the CEO. This book provides examples of how to create, sustain and evolve that relationship to become the kind of forward-thinking leadership team that encourages new ideas and challenging debate.
AHA Guide 2009 Edition
Available at the AHA Online Store
Essential health care data at your fingertips, AHA Guide® is an encyclopedic, hospital directory of health care and hospital systems profiles, hospital listings and health care statistics, in an easy-to-read book. This directory includes service line offerings and detailed profile information such as facility ownership, C-suite contact names, admissions, beds, outpatient visits, births, and more.
AHA Guide is also available on CD-ROM for those who prefer an electronic look-up version.
A Great Board
by Howard Berman
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After years of experience with nonprofit boards—as a CEO reporting to boards, a board member, and chair—Howard Berman shares his insights on what works and what doesn't. Berman establishes nine "guide star" or benchmark principles that govern the actions of the CEO, board chair, board as a whole, and individual board members.
Governance in High-Performing Organizations
by Lawrence D. Prybil and others
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This timely study examines governance in high-performing, nonprofit hospitals and compares selected attributes with those of organizations with mid-range performance. The study looks at board structure, roles, and practices, and will help CEOs and boards in their ongoing efforts to improve governance practices and identify opportunities for improvement.
Building an Exceptional Board: Effective Practices for Health Care Governance
FREE
This report of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Hospital Governance outlines recommendations in five key areas critical to effective governance. It is intended to foster broader dialogue and sharing, among health care organizations and their boards, of perspectives and resources to further strengthen and improve health care governance. Click here to download the full report.
Hospital Governance: Initial Summary Report of 2005 Survey of CEOs and Board Chairs
FREE
In spring and summer 2005, HRET surveyed U.S. hospital CEOs and their board chairs for a comprehensive look at how boards operate. Click here to download the full report.