The Excellent Board : Practical Solutions for Health Care Trustees and CEOs

The Excellent Board is a sourcebook every health care CEO, trustee and director should have on their desks. It contains 48 timely articles covering the key areas they must consider as they fulfill their responsibilities.

The Excellent Board is a collection of Trustee magazine’s best and most practical articles. It covers topics vitally important to a board’s success — board composition, the governance process and trustee education, board/CEO relations, board work, finance, quality, patient safety and strategic planning. These topics comprise the eight parts of the book.

The combination of articles gives new and experienced trustees, as well as board and committee chairs, a firm grounding in what it takes to be an excellent board member and provides direction on how a health care organization can reach the next level of excellence. The Excellent Board provides a thorough understanding of current issues and contains practical guidance and direction on the tools needed for the job.

The Excellent Board is an essential reference that will help health care governing boards achieve their goals as they face an environment where reduced reimbursement, complex technology, staffing conflicts and shortages and an increasing number of uninsured patients have put hospitals’ bottom lines in jeopardy.

The Excellent Board is an investment few health care organizations can afford to neglect.

48 articles packed with advice and counsel for better outcomes in:

• Board Composition

• Governance Process & Trustee Education

• Board/CEO Relations

• Board Work

• Finance

• Quality

• Patient Safety

• Strategic Planning

· Governing Board Presidents and members

· CEOs and executive committee members

· Consultants and advisers

· Management educators and students