Center for Healthcare Governance

Center Membership

Why Join the Center?

The Center for Healthcare Governance is a dynamic community of hospital and health system board members, executives and thought leaders dedicated to advancing excellence, innovation and accountability in health care governance. Membership with the Center provides you with comprehensive access to the resources and information you require to govern your organization. The Governance Assessment Process, Board self evaluation, allows you to benchmark your organization and receive consultative analysis of your Board. Governance tools written by national experts in the field are available on numerous topics to guide your Board through many situations. In conjunction with the AHA, members receive updates on the latest regulatory and legislative developments impacting governance.

What Are My Member Benefits?

GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENT PROCESS (GAP)

  • Full Board Self Evaluation
    • System board and hospital board assessments
    • Free standing assessment
  • Customization of the assessment is included
  • Benchmarked nationally and within a system
  • On-site or telephone review of the results by Center President or Vice President
  • Mapped out action items for navigating the future
  • Individual director self-evaluation and peer-to-peer evaluations also available
  • more information

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH

  • Trustee Magazine: Subscriptions for all board members and CEO
  • Trustee Workbooks: For use at interactive board planning sessions
  • Monographs: Quarterly case studies featuring relevant topics of interest
  • Subscription to Center News & Updates biweekly e-newsletter
  • Center Blue Ribbon Panel reports and tools
  • Governance in High-Performing Health Systems: A Report on Trustee and CEO Views
  • Yearly copy of AHA’s Environmental Scan

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

  • Symposia: Educational credits to attend a Center symposium
  • Webinars: Live and recorded versions
  • Quality Curriculum
  • Health Care in Transition: Topics for Trustees webinars
  • Trustee Recruitment: Minority Trustee Candidates

SPEAKING & CONSULTING

  • Speakers Express: Educational credits can be used for on-site speaker visit
  • Qualified Consultants
  • Flexibility to work with Center on specific organizational needs
  • Board education and board development retreats

GOVERNANCE TOOLS

  • Resource repository for members
  • Sample board charters
  • Sample committee charters
  • Sample board policies
  • Sample selection and orientation tools
  • Competency-Based Tool Kit
  • Guide to Good Governance
  • Health Care Reform and the Trustee’s Role
  • Tools for hospital systems

Membership Options

How Do I Join?


Join Online

Fill out the online application.Join By Mail or Fax
Download the application and mail it or fax it to us at:

Center for Healthcare Governance
155 N. Wacker, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60606
Fax: 312-278-0611