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Get Involved, Leadership, Rural issues, Succession Planning
Rural hospitals and health systems often face a leadership Catch-22: They need strong leaders to overcome the well-documented challenges facing rural health care — limited resources and dwindling populations, for example — but struggle to recruit strong leaders because of these challenges.
In our experience, trustees are often the difference makers, depending on their ability to sell their organization to prospective CEOs and executives. In doing so, they must sell their board as being competent and committed and having a vision for the future.
Governance Effectiveness, Rural issues, Strategic Planning
Trustee Talking Points
Trustee Talking Points
- The institutions guided by rural hospital trustees face growing pressures on multiple fronts, including reimbursement changes tied to value-based payments, raising concerns about health care access in rural communities.
- These pressures are forcing greater demands on trustees, who must make ever more complex decisions about service lines and whether or not to affiliate with larger health s