Click on the links below to view trustee resources available for download in that category.

Resource categories:

• Education Post-Conference Materials
• Trustee Governance and Management
• Patient Safety
• Strategic Planning

Education Post-Conference Materials

• Presentations from the 2012 MHA Winter Trustee Conference:
• "Reforming Health Care ... With Help from Washington and Without It." Keynote address speaker Richard J. Umbdenstock, American Hospital Association president and CEO: [VIEW VIDEO and PDF].
  
• "Healing Communities: The Future of Health Care." Carl Hammerschlag, author, physician, psychiatrist, Phoenix, AZ; and Scott Wordelman, FACHE, president & CEO, Fairview Red Wing Medical Center: [VIEW VIDEO].
• "The State of Minnesota Health Care," Lucinda Jesson, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services: [PDF].
• "Training Camp for Rookie Trustees" resources, Jan. 6, 2012: [PDF]
  
  

Trustee Governance and Management

"BoardBriefs" - Larry Walker, president of The Walker Company, a health care management consulting firm, developed this series of resources offering insight into effective health care governing:

• "Using Your Board of Trustees Self-Assessment to Improve Leadership Effectiveness": [PDF]
• "Governance Accountabilities and Opportunities in the Quest for Quality": [PDF]
• "Becoming a Community-Centered Board": [PDF]
• "Building Constructive Hospital/Medical Staff Relationships and Alignment": [PDF]
• "The Board's Fiduciary Responsibility, Putting the Community's Trust into Action": [PDF]
• "Building the Foundation for Success: Developing Powerful and Purposeful Mission, Values and Vision": [PDF]
• "Driving Change: Integrating Mission, Values and Vision into Board Leadership": [PDF]
• "The Board's Role in Strategic Planning": [PDF]
  
• "Building Bonds: Pathways to Better Board/CEO Relationships": [PDF]
• "The Board's Role in CEO Compensation and Performance Evaluation": [PDF]

"10 Board Don'ts," includes a list of 10 common board and CEO frustrations, some dos and don'ts of a good system of partnership appraisal and top 10 hints for making the performance planning and appraisal process better: [PDF].

"The Role of the Board Chair": Every board member is responsible for important leadership duties and responsibilities, but perhaps the most critical leadership role is that of the board chair. This article outlines the expectations and challenges of this important role: [PDF].

"Planning Today for Tomorrow's Trustee": Recruiting new trustees to serve on your board is every bit as important as CEO recruitment. How well boards plan and execute this vital process defines the hospital's leadership success for years to come. [PDF].

A leadership perspective, "Maximize the Value of Your Board Retreat": Board retreats are a great way for trustees to brainstorm ideas about the organization's future, strengthen their understanding of the organization's challenges, and develop a sense of teamwork and camaraderie. How can boards ensure that their retreats are a valuable use of leadership time and resources with meaningful outcomes?: [PDF].

"The Board's Role in Disaster Readiness": This article provides information on the trustees' role in emergency management planning and includes sources and a checklist of hospital and community readiness items to review: [PDF].

"View From the Governance Front Lines," presented by Larry Walker at MHA's Winter Trustee Conference in January 2006, takes a look at challenges, issues and solutions in governance information and education: [PDF].

"Governance and Management of Effective Organizations" outlines approaches that hospital boards should adopt to foster each person's fulfillment of his/her duties and the board's effective execution of its functions: [DOC].

"From Them To Us: Going Where Others Have Gone Before" describes proven leadership strategies for uniting groups and building trust over time. Published in August's Michigan Health and Hospitals, the article is based upon research by Edward O'Connor on physician-hospital collaboration strategies: [PDF].

"How to Conduct a Board of Trustees Self-Assessment" includes a 10-step plan on how to conduct a board self-assessment: [PDF].

"Overview of Board Roles and Responsibilities," covers the key function of a highly successful board; practices to improve a board's visionary thinking and the importance of determining eligibility requirements and developing board member job descriptions: [PDF].

"Medical Staff Credentialing" defines the board's role and the roles and responsibilities of key individuals in the process of credentialing and privileging medical staff: [PDF].

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Patient Safety
Adverse Health Event Legislation: In 2003 Minnesota hospitals supported legislation to create a new reporting system for adverse events. The law will give Minnesotans better information about how well hospitals are doing at preventing 28 "never" events - medical errors and other adverse events that should never occur. Visit MHA's Patient Safety area of this site.

To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, The Institute of Medicine, 2000. The entire book by the IOM is available online, and can be viewed by category, searched, or printed: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309068371/html/ .

Doing What Counts for Patient Safety: Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and Their Impact. A report of the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC) to the President, February 2000. The book includes an introduction and four chapters: Chapter 1: Understanding Medical Errors; Chapter 2: Federal Response to the IOM Report; Chapter 3: Beyond the IOM Report: Identifying and Implementing Additional Strategies; Chapter 4: Working With the Private Sector and State Governments: http://www.quic.gov/report/toc.htm

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Strategic Planning

"The Board's Role in Strategic Planning" - building and maintaining focused, accountable and visionary trustee leadership is one of the principal challenges for hospitals in today's turbulent health care environment. Developed by Larry Walker, president of The Walker Company: [PDF]

Naked Reverse: Unexpected Plays for Exceptional Results, Edward J. O'Connor, Ph.D., C. Marlena Fiol, Ph.D., Gerry Dewil, University of Colorado-Denver, October 2003. Describes proven strategies for evaluating new venture ideas: [PDF].

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