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Healthcare Trustee Institute > Education Programs
Vermont
Assuring
Institutional Integrity: The Board's Covenant with its Community
January 30, 2003
Hotel Coolidge, Main Street White River Junction, VT
- Assuring Institutional Integrity: The Board's Covenant with
its Community
Program
Description
Boards have come under scrutiny as never before. Board members,
individually and collectively, are being held responsible to reduce
medical errors, improve quality, and assure the appropriateness
of executive activity.
Agenda
Highlights
•Governance Fundamentals
•Executive oversight: Assuring vigilance; avoiding micromanagement
•The ever-broadening umbrella of compliance
•Expanding the concept of audit beyond financials
Massachusetts
3
Part Series: Trustee Certificate Program
February 20, 27 and March 6, 2003
Massachusetts Hospital Association, Burlington, MA
HTI Governance Certificate Program
Program
description
This comprehensive introduction to health care governance goes
beyond a brief introduction and provides new trustees a thorough
grounding in their roles and responsibilities, along with exposure
to a range of special topics in health care and examples of successful
governance practice. Comprising nine modules, the curriculum can
be delivered in a series of classes or an intensive 1½
day format.
Module
titles:
•Basics of governance
•Policy determination
•Oversight of the executive team
•Finance
•Human resources
•Strategy
•"The physician piece"
•Compliance, quality, data, medical errors
Hospital
/ Physician Relationships
February 25, 2003
Baystate Medical Center
Springfield, MA
Bridging "Us" and "Them": Hospital & Physician
Relations
Program
Description
In many healthcare organizations, there is a gulf of misunderstanding
between the governing body and the medical staff as a group, a
gulf which sometimes widens to latent hostility or frank conflict.
This presentation is designed to help Trustees understand the
experience of their physicians and to guide the Board in establishing
common ground with the medical staff.
Agenda
Highlights
•Challenges to forging collaborative relationships - different
languages, incentives, experiences, and perspectives on the process
of care delivery
•Balancing the twin duties of medical staff oversight and
medical staff support
•Economic considerations - realities of collaboration and
competition
•Preparing and making use of physician Trustees
Welcome
to the Board
March 2003
Northampton, MA
Welcome To the Board
Program
Description:
The tasks of hospital governance are daunting even for experienced
health professionals. This program is designed to give a concise
summary of the duties facing trustees, and outline approaches
to these duties that render the work both possible and rewarding.
Agenda
Highlights
•The nature of governance and role of the Board in a health
care setting
•Setting strategy, clarifying vision and mission
•Domains of oversight: management, the medical staff, compliance
•"Best practices" In governance - open discussion
Hospital
/ Physician Relationships
June 25, 2003
Boston, MA
Bridging "Us" and "Them": Hospital & Physician
Relations
Program
Description
In many healthcare organizations, there is a gulf of misunderstanding
between the governing body and the medical staff as a group, a
gulf which sometimes widens to latent hostility or frank conflict.
This presentation is designed to help Trustees understand the
experience of their physicians and to guide the Board in establishing
common ground with the medical staff.
Agenda
Highlights
•Challenges to forging collaborative relationships - different
languages, incentives, experiences, and perspectives on the process
of care delivery
•Balancing the twin duties of medical staff oversight and
medical staff support
•Economic considerations - realities of collaboration and
competition
•Preparing and making use of physician Trustees
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