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Assessing the 'Fit': Using Competencies to Select New Board Members

Bringing new members onto the board has its challenges. In small or rural communities, the pool of potential trustees is often limited, with desirable candidates already serving on multiple boards. Even in bigger urban areas, it sometimes seems the same people rotate on and off the boards of larger community organizations — the Rotary Club, the chamber of commerce, the hospital.
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Applying Competency-based Criteria to Committee Makeup and Education

More and more boards are adopting the practice of using competency-based criteria to select governing board members. They identify the subject areas and behavioral qualities needed from trustees and apply them to recruitment, orientation, leadership development, succession planning and periodic evaluation.
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Active Board Succession

A decade ago, BoardSource, an organization supporting nonprofit boards, developed a well known list of aspirational principles of governance. For us they still ring true: “mission driven,” “ethos of transparency,” “compliance with integrity.”
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Getting Nurses on Board(s)

Why health care organizations should consider adding nurses to their boards.
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Exploring Ways to Reinvent Generational Recruitment

An emerging group of future health care leaders are ready to take on the challenge of health care board service.
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Is Trustee Emeritus Status Outdated?

Is granting an outgoing trustee ‘emeritus status’ a thing of the past?
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Recruiting Millennials to the Hospital Board

Millennials use the health care system in a unique way. Trustees must be attentive to their views and recruit them to the board for its long-term sustainability.
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Governing for Diverse Communities

In July 2011, five national health associations jointly urged hospital and health system leaders to take three steps to help eliminate health disparities and improve quality of care. These steps called for increasing...