Publications

Governance

• A "No Apologies" Approach to Clinical Integration.pdf *NEW!
• The Advisors' Corner Anthology.pdf *NEW!
• Board Engagement in Quality.pdf *NEW!
• Board Oversight of Quality.pdf *NEW!
• The Triple Aim: What Healthcare Reform Means for the Board Quality Committee.pdf
• The Evolution of Board Committees: What Works and What Doesn't.pdf
• A Chronic Condition: Distinguishing Governance from Management.pdf
• Go It Alone or Merge Into a Larger System: An Unavoidable Decision.pdf
• Physician Participation on the Hospital Board: A Moving Target.pdf
• The Board's Role in Assuring Institutional Integrity.pdf
• Healthcare Policy: Seven Questions Boards Must Ask.pdf
• Highest Standards of Integrity - Are We There Yet?.pdf
• The Special Challenges of Government-Sponsored Hospital Boards.pdf
• Who Is an Independent Director?.pdf
• What Public and Private Boards Could Learn from Each Other.pdf
• The Board Quality Committee Goes to Work.pdf
• One is a Lonely Number: Uptick in "Mergers".pdf
• "Drill Baby, Drill" Is Not Appropriate Boardroom Practice.pdf
• A Different Nursing Shortage.pdf
• Growing Board Expectations and Time Demands-The Final Straw?.pdf
• The System-Subsidiary Relationship in Hospital Governance.pdf
• Governance, Leadership, & Goal Setting.pdf
• Successful Board Retreats.pdf
• Should the Full Board Approve the CEO's Compensation?.pdf
• Turn Off the Fire Hose: Innovative Approaches to Board Orientation.pdf
• Governance Advisors’ Year in Review.pdf
• Integrity, Partnerships, Public Accountability, and Strategic Focus.pdf
• Board Member Terms: To Limit or Not?.pdf
• Choosing Directors with the "Right Stuff".pdf
• Differentiating Board and Committee Work on Quality.pdf
• Disruptive Board Members.pdf
• Emerging Standards for Institutional Integrity: A Tipping Point for Charitable Organizations.pdf
• Engaging the Board: The Missing Ingredient in Improving Healthcare Quality.pdf
• Institutional Integrity Self-Assessment.pdf
• Turning Up the Heat On Institutional Integrity.pdf
• Conflicts of Interest: Status Quo Isn't Good Enough.pdf
• Count to Ten: Board and CEO Frustrations.pdf
• Effective Boards: Working Smarter to Meet the Challenge.pdf
• Executive Sessions: A Sign of the Times.pdf
• Health Care Boards: Who Will Serve.pdf
• Subsidiary Hospital Boards: Window Dressing or Opportunity?.pdf
• We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This: Creating Board Agendas that Work.pdf
• Whose Job is it Anyway: Governance Restructuring Clarifies Board Roles.pdf
• Board Versus Management - A Crumbling Wall.pdf

Strategic Planning

• A Critical Decision for Single Hospital and Smaller Health System Boards.pdf
• Accountable Care Organizations: The Case Is (Relatively) Strong but the Jury Is Out.pdf
• Strategic Conversations.pdf
• Hospitals 2020-Specialized, Integrated, & Connected.pdf
• Strategic Planning Basics for Family Businesses.pdf
• The Board's Role in Strategic Planning: Eliminating the Confusion.pdf
• Creating a More Strategic Board and Organization: A Case Study.pdf
• Engaging the Board in Strategic Planning: Rationale, Tools, and Techniques.pdf
• Strategic Planning: Work for the Full Board or a Committee?.pdf
• System Affiliation Discussions Require Carefully Structured Process.pdf
• Pursuing Systemness: The Evolution of Large Health Systems.pdf
• Setting Strategic Direction: The Key to Board Performance.pdf
• Strategic Planning Without the Mystery.pdf

Physician Alignment

• True Partners.pdf *NEW!
• Aligning Hospitals and Physicians: Formulating Strategy in a Changing Environment-White Paper.pdf
• Aligning Hospitals and Physicians: Formulating Strategy in a Changing Environment-Summary.pdf
• Physician Engagement Models Fill the Knowledge Gap.pdf
• A Strategic Perspective on Physician-Hospital Alignment.pdf
• Physicians on the Board: Conflict Over Conflicts.pdf
• Physician Collaboration: Is Money the Only Answer?.pdf
• Physicians and Conflict of Interest.pdf

ACCORD's Brochures

• Health Care Governance Services.pdf
• Health Care Strategic Planning Services.pdf
• Strategic Planning Services (for public and privately-owned companies).pdf
• Not-For-Profit Governance Services (for non-health care organizations).pdf
• Not-For-Profit Strategic Planning Services (for non-health care organizations).pdf