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Health care organizations are finally embracing enterprise risk management as a way to identify their vulnerabilities. Here's how to get started.

How to handle the disruptive physician or other clinician is an old and complex problem that is coming under new scrutiny in an era of patient safety.

A new Joint Commission standard puts the onus on the board to eliminate barriers to quality care.

Building environmentally sustainable health care facilities costs more than a standard structure, but the benefits to patients and staff, as well as the long-term energy savings, make the investment well worth it.

Seeking better reimbursement, physicians are striking out on their own, making it more important than ever for hospitals to pursue formal alignment arrangements with them.

All too many trustees remember the last time hospitals employed large numbers of physicians--and the resulting large financial losses they absorbed. Now some hospitals are employing physicians without fearing a repeat of the mistakes from the 1990s.

The tremendous success of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100,000 Lives Campaign has inspired an even more ambitious sequel. Can hospitals save 5 million lives over the next two years?

EMTALA: The first in a gatefold series explaining what boards need to know about regulatory issues.

Four hospital systems--two in Michigan and two in California--are participating in a research project to find new ways for the board to take a more active role in quality oversight and leadership.

Defending their tax-exempt status, not-for-profit hospitals must find tangible means to demonstrate the many ways they care for their communities.

Campaigning for support for the bottom line is giving way to trustees' mission to demonstrate hospitals' ongoing community benefit work to legislators.

Although there is little question that boards need physician trustees, where they should look for them is a matter of debate.

How much oversight of fiduciary duty is enough? The stakes are higher than ever for trustees to make certain they know what the term truly means.

Several years ago, two financially strapped hospitals were teetering toward closure. Vigorous and inspired leadership brought them back from the brink.

When boards get behind quality initiatives, patient care definately benefits--but which measures help most? Following is an analysis of how well the Leapfrog Group's guidelines are working at participating hospitals.

How do lay boards make tough decisions on complicated hospital issues? The verdict is still out on whether mandatory trustee education is the best solution, but you need to confront the pros and cons before the choice is made for you.