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Streamlining the Credentialing and Privileging Process
The legal authority to approve, limit or deny provider credentials and privileges is a fundamental board responsibility. Organizations that centralize and standardize this process are better prepared to meet the field’s many changes and challenges.
Helping Boards Have Productive Conversations about Quality of Care
Health care boards that take a broader view of “quality” and incorporate measures that reflect this understanding are better able to assess performance in the right areas.
Credentialing, Privileging and the Engaged Board
Education, preparation and collegiality can empower physician and lay member trustees to make fair and thoroughly vetted decisions.
Governance Leadership of Quality
A diagnostic tool and organization assessment can help boards address barriers to effective quality oversight.
Governing in the New Quality, Safety Landscape
For effective oversight, boards must engage at three levels: see, own and solve.
Ten Ways to Improve the Board's Use of Quality Measures
Hospital and health system boards are being overwhelmed by hundreds of quality indicators from numerous sources. Many are required or linked to payment incentives, but some are part of voluntary improvement programs. Amidst the deluge of numbers, leaders could miss valuable, potentially actionable information.
Governing for Quality in a "No-Outcome, No-Income" World
There’s hardly a health care board member, past or present, who hasn’t heard of the age-old governance mantra “no margin, no mission.” For years this simple phrase captured what most trustees came to believe was their primary obligation: to ensure the financial viability of their hospital or health system. Days cash on hand, debt coverage ratio and net operating margin were key measures that defined high or low performance.