Board members can spread the word on health care’s transformation, conference panelists say.

Specifically, hospital boards and leaders need to get the word out about the changes sweeping through health care.

That’s what panelists said Monday during “Engaging in Board and Community Conversations While Transitioning to New Payment and Delivery Models,” a session at the American Hospital Association’s Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, which also featured the presentation of an AHA award that day.

Read the 2017 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference H&HN report (Feb. 8, 2017).