Governance of Healthcare Organizations - Webinar By MentorHealth
About This Event
Overview: Hospital and health system board members face increasing challenges, with healthcare reform and other laws demanding improved accountability and efficiency. This webinar reveals the secrets of effective board structure and function, including responsibilities of board members, term limits, recruiting new members and working with the CEO.
Other aspects of a board's work, including monitoring quality, providing financial oversight, and completing a self-assessment process, are also covered. Board members, regardless of their expertise, will find this webinar interesting and educational.
Why should you attend: Governance of hospitals and health systems is important work. How well it is done has tremendous consequences for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve. Also, there are consequences for patients, medical staffs, and employees. This webinar is intended to help new and experienced board members learn "best practices" of effective healthcare boards.
Areas Covered in the Session:
Types of hospital boards and health systems
Role and responsibility of hospital boards
Role and responsibility of individual board members
Role and responsibility of board chairperson
Information governing boards should receive
Governance vs. management
Selecting physician board members
Optimizing board CEO relationships and CEO as a member of the board
Term limits for board members
Age limits for board members
Designing an effective board orientation program
Key committees the board should have
Board's role in monitoring quality of healthcare
Conflict of interest issues
How the board should conduct a "self-assessment" process
Who Will Benefit:
Hospital and Health System Board Members
CEO's of Hospital and Health Systems
Other Top Executives in a Healthcare Organization
Dr. Biggs primary research and consulting activities include work with hospitals to improve the governance of those organizations. He teaches governance in both the graduate on-campus and executive programs in Health Administration at the University of Colorado. He is also a faculty member of the American Hospital Association's Center for Healthcare Governance and Chairman of the Practical Governance Group, both of which offer educational programs for hospital governing boards.
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FaX: 302-288-6884
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