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Hospital Board Advisory Services

Faced with financial difficulty and uncertain times, independent community hospitals have a variety of options to consider. CHC Consulting offers Hospital Board Advisory services to guide board members through uncharted waters to improve hospital performance. The process starts with a planning session to assess the current situation and help the board explore a variety of improvement strategies and organizational structure options.

Our Strategic Vision Services Include:

Benefits

Turnaround

Improve board performance – and, ultimately, hospital performance – by equipping boards to navigate the current and future healthcare landscape.

Higher community trust and engagement through consistent, frequent messaging on key talking points from hospital board members and the administration.

Ensure consistent leadership that serves the organization’s vision and mission through an actionable CEO succession plan.

Avoid conflicts of interest and improve hospital leadership accountability through outside board member recruitment.

Make the onboarding and orientation process easier by providing new members with clear job descriptions and responsibilities.

Assistance with assessing the current situation and exploring a variety of improvement strategies and organizational structure options.

Board advisory services can also address the hospital’s operations, revenue cycle and growth strategies. Our turnaround process includes optimizing revenue cycle, workforce productivity, operational efficiency and the supply chain to reduce costs and improve hospital performance.

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Blog

Building Successful Hospital-CEO Board Relationships

By Craig Sims

Community-based hospitals put the “care” in healthcare. Meaningful hospital CEO-board partnerships based on trust and mutual goals are key for successfully executing a shared vision. Board members make important decisions that serve the community and help develop strategies to ensure the hospital’s long-term sustainability.

Best Practices for Strong Hospital CEO-Board Partnerships
Here are some best practice tips that can foster positive, productive relationships with both your hospital CEO and among its board members.

        1. Develop a trustee recruitment and retention process

Recruiting and retaining trustees...

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Case Studies

Enthusiastically On Board: Essential Elements of a High-performing Board at Yoakum Community Hospital, Yoakum, TX

The Situation

Yoakum Community Hospital serves as a model of positive CEO-board relations, but establishing this level of board engagement did not happen overnight. CEO Karen Barber has led the 25-bed critical access hospital in rural Texas to a status worthy of national recognition, with strategic direction from an engaged, effective board of trustees. Barber says she feels “fortunate” to be backed by a high-performing board, but it was her own efforts along with the trustees’ that put all the elements in place for the exemplary board Yoakum has today.

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