OTHER RESOURCES
Healthcare organization governance materials drawn from other sources; provided here with permission or in the public domain.
The Role of The Board of Directors in Enron's Collapse; Report of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate (July, 2002); 62 pages.
Enron (then the seventh largest publicly traded company in the U.S.) declared bankruptcy on December 2, 2001. This report, which reads like a mystery/adventure novel, explores how Enron's board contributed to its demise. This is a must read for those interested in governance pathology and learning from the mistakes.
download document:
click here ➜ enron.pdf
Governance in Nonprofit Community Health Systems by Larry Prybil, et. al (Chicago, IL: Grant Thornton LLC, 2007); 40 pages.
A study of board structure, composition, functioning, practices and culture in 201 U.S. nonprofit health systems by researchers at the University of Iowa.
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click here ➜ gov_survey_nphs.pdf
Beyond Good: Improving Healthcare Governance Means Not Settling for What's Merely Adequate by R. Timothy Stack and Dennis Pointer; Modern Healthcare (August 11, 2003).
Description of a project to redesign Piedmont Healthcare's (Atlanta, GA) system-wide governance structure and functioning.
download document:
click here ➜ MHC_beyond_good.pdf
Board Financial Fitness and Savvy: It's Up to You by Dennis Pointer and Dennis Stillman; Modern Healthcare (November 15, 2004).
A discussion of director responsibilities, roles and competencies + board systems that must be in place to ensure the financial performance of healthcare organizations.
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click here ➜ MHC_brd_fin_fit.pdf
The Balanced Governance Scorecard: A Tool for Maximizing Board Performance and Contributions by Dennis Pointer, et. al; Turstee Magazine (April, 2005).
How concepts developed by Robert Kaplan and David Norton (The Balanced Scorecard; Harvard Business School Press, 1996) can be applied to governing healthcare organizations.
download document:
click here ➜ Trustee_govBSC.pdf
Governance Matters .. The Evidence (New York, NY: GovernanceMetrics, 2004).
Executive summary by Dennis Pointer of a study demonstrating the relationship between measures of governance quality and organizational performance.
download document;
click here ➜ gov_matters_evid.pdf
THE QUALITY IMPERATIVE
Move Your Dot: Measuring, Evaluating and Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates, Part 1 (Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2003).
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click here ➜ IHI_mr1.pdf
Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates, Part 2 (Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2005).
download document:
click here ➜ IHI_mr2.pdf
Whole System Measures (Cambridge, MA: Intstitute for Healthcare Improvement, 2007).
download document:
click here ➜ IHI_qual_metrics.pdf
Reducing Harm to Patients - Using Safety Dashboards at the Board Level (Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2007).
download document:
click here ➜ IHI_dashboards.pdf
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is, in my judgment, the NationТs premier organization dedicated to enhancing clinical quality and patient safety. They conduct: an Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare (which, drawing over 6,000 attendees, is now the largest professional meeting in the industry); a five day healthcare quality improvement workshop for teams of healthcare organization directors, executives and physician leaders; and a two day conference, УFrom the Top: The Role of the Board in Quality and Safety.Ф Their website is the go-to location for high quality (and free) resources.
click here ➜ www.ihi.org
Hospital Boards and Clinical Quality: A Practical Guide by James Reinertsen (Ontario Hospital Association, 2007).
download document:
click here ➜ boards&quality.pdf
The Role of The Board of Directors in Enron's Collapse; Report of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate (July, 2002); 62 pages.
Enron (then the seventh largest publicly traded company in the U.S.) declared bankruptcy on December 2, 2001. This report, which reads like a mystery/adventure novel, explores how Enron's board contributed to its demise. This is a must read for those interested in governance pathology and learning from the mistakes.
download document:
click here ➜ enron.pdf
Governance in Nonprofit Community Health Systems by Larry Prybil, et. al (Chicago, IL: Grant Thornton LLC, 2007); 40 pages.
A study of board structure, composition, functioning, practices and culture in 201 U.S. nonprofit health systems by researchers at the University of Iowa.
download document:
click here ➜ gov_survey_nphs.pdf
Beyond Good: Improving Healthcare Governance Means Not Settling for What's Merely Adequate by R. Timothy Stack and Dennis Pointer; Modern Healthcare (August 11, 2003).
Description of a project to redesign Piedmont Healthcare's (Atlanta, GA) system-wide governance structure and functioning.
download document:
click here ➜ MHC_beyond_good.pdf
Board Financial Fitness and Savvy: It's Up to You by Dennis Pointer and Dennis Stillman; Modern Healthcare (November 15, 2004).
A discussion of director responsibilities, roles and competencies + board systems that must be in place to ensure the financial performance of healthcare organizations.
download document:
click here ➜ MHC_brd_fin_fit.pdf
The Balanced Governance Scorecard: A Tool for Maximizing Board Performance and Contributions by Dennis Pointer, et. al; Turstee Magazine (April, 2005).
How concepts developed by Robert Kaplan and David Norton (The Balanced Scorecard; Harvard Business School Press, 1996) can be applied to governing healthcare organizations.
download document:
click here ➜ Trustee_govBSC.pdf
Governance Matters .. The Evidence (New York, NY: GovernanceMetrics, 2004).
Executive summary by Dennis Pointer of a study demonstrating the relationship between measures of governance quality and organizational performance.
download document;
click here ➜ gov_matters_evid.pdf
THE QUALITY IMPERATIVE
Move Your Dot: Measuring, Evaluating and Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates, Part 1 (Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2003).
download document:
click here ➜ IHI_mr1.pdf
Reducing Hospital Mortality Rates, Part 2 (Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2005).
download document:
click here ➜ IHI_mr2.pdf
Whole System Measures (Cambridge, MA: Intstitute for Healthcare Improvement, 2007).
download document:
click here ➜ IHI_qual_metrics.pdf
Reducing Harm to Patients - Using Safety Dashboards at the Board Level (Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2007).
download document:
click here ➜ IHI_dashboards.pdf
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is, in my judgment, the NationТs premier organization dedicated to enhancing clinical quality and patient safety. They conduct: an Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare (which, drawing over 6,000 attendees, is now the largest professional meeting in the industry); a five day healthcare quality improvement workshop for teams of healthcare organization directors, executives and physician leaders; and a two day conference, УFrom the Top: The Role of the Board in Quality and Safety.Ф Their website is the go-to location for high quality (and free) resources.
click here ➜ www.ihi.org
Hospital Boards and Clinical Quality: A Practical Guide by James Reinertsen (Ontario Hospital Association, 2007).
download document:
click here ➜ boards&quality.pdf