/ en Sat, 26 Apr 2025 01:17:10 -0500 Tue, 22 Apr 25 14:15:30 -0500 /education-events/2025-aha-leadership-summit <p class="field_lead">The <a href="https://leadershipsummit.aha.org/" target="_blank" title="2025 AHA Leadership Summit"><strong>2025 AHA Leadership Summit</strong></a> senior health care executives, clinicians and experts in the field presenting innovative approaches for delivering better care and greater value, ensuring financial stability, addressing workforce challenges and improving the health care consumer experience through operational excellence, creative partnerships and redefined delivery models.</p><p>Join a diverse community of strategic and visionary leaders who represent excellence in the field as they boldly transform their organizations.</p><p>Our attendees include <strong>CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CMOs, CNOs, CIOs and other C-suite leaders</strong>, as well as <strong>VPs, Physician Leaders, Advanced Practice Professionals, Directors and Managers</strong> overseeing patient care, strategy, innovation, digital transformation, finance, workforce and policy.</p><p>Additionally, the Summit welcomes <strong>emerging and next-generation health care leaders</strong> who are shaping the future of patient-centered care and health system transformation.</p><hr><h2>Leading Hospitals | Leading Health Care</h2><p><strong>Leading Hospitals</strong></p><p>Learn with colleagues in a variety of educational opportunities that facilitate the sharing of insights and leading practices.<br>You’ll hear from innovators investing in the promising ideas, technologies and scientific discoveries that are changing the consumer experience and reimagining care delivery</p><p><strong>Leading Health Care</strong></p><p>Discover inspiration and practical strategies to sustain transformation within your organization, system and community as we prepare for the future.<br>Dive into real-world applications and connect with leaders who share your commitment to driving transformative change in health care.</p><p><a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="https://leadershipsummit.aha.org/" target="_blank" title="2025 AHA Leadership Summit" data-view-context="top-level-view"><strong>LEARN MORE >></strong></a></p><h2>AHA Members – Interested in receiving complimentary registration?<br>Consider our Hosted Buyer Forum to connect with high-quality solutions providers.</h2><p><a href="/hosted-buyer" target="_blank"><strong>Hosted Buyer Forum</strong></a> - Sunday, July 22 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM and 2:30 PM-5:30 PM<br>The Hosted Buyer Forum offers a private showcase for hospital and health system leaders interested in connecting with solution providers addressing key hospital issues. After the Forum is complete, participants are encouraged to join the Welcome Reception for additional networking.</p><p><a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="https://leadershipsummit.aha.org/hosted-buyer" target="_blank" title="2025 AHA Leadership Summit Sponsorship" data-view-context="top-level-view"><strong>LEARN MORE >></strong></a></p><hr>Call for Speakers</h2> <p>We’re calling on leaders shaping the future of health care to apply to share their real-world strategies and proven solutions with peers across the field. Whether you're tackling workforce challenges, transforming care delivery or driving operational excellence, we want to hear from you. </p> <p>Proposals must be non-commercial in nature. The Call for Speakers deadline is <strong>Monday, November 25</strong>.</p> <a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" data-view-context="top-level-view" href="https://leadershipsummit.aha.org/program/speaking-opportunities-ls" target="_blank"><strong>LEARN MORE >></strong></a> <a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" data-view-context="top-level-view" href="https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/385d7c8476204286b3b500744d75dfe6" target="_blank" title="AHA Leadership Summit Call for Proposals - Apply Today!"><strong>APPLY TODAY >></strong></a> <br /> </p> <div class="RuralButton"><a class="btn btn-primary btn-primary-avc1" href="https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/c8eaf006-bb32-489c-8d5e-515f82937464" target="_blank"><strong>APPLY TODAY >></strong> </a></div> --><h2>Sponsorship Opportunities</h2><p>A variety of sponsorship opportunities offer both broad exposure and targeted connections with senior health care executives. Support the entire event, design and deliver a session that features your own executive leadership or gain visibility through numerous other opportunities.</p><p>Participation by the business community in the Leadership Summit is reserved for Summit sponsors and AHA Associates.</p><p>Learn how your organization can align with hospital and health system leaders as they meet to reimagine the future.</p><p><a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="https://leadershipsummit.aha.org/sponsor-exhibit/sponsorship-ls" target="_blank" title="2025 AHA Leadership Summit Sponsorship" data-view-context="top-level-view"><strong>LEARN MORE >></strong></a></p> Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:15:30 -0500 Trustee Services /news/headline/2025-04-17-qa-highlights-value-nurses-boards <p>A Q&A in the latest edition of AHA Trustee Insights highlights how boards value the perspective of nurses. Experts interviewed include Kimberly Cleveland, board chair emeritus of the Nurses on Boards Coalition, Ann Collins, M.D., board chair of UNC Health Rex in Raleigh, N.C., and Melissa Fitzpatrick, R.N., board member of UNC Health Rex. <a href="https://trustees.aha.org/what-nurses-bring-hospital-and-health-system-boards?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aha-today"><strong>READ MORE</strong></a></p> Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:34:12 -0500 Trustee Services /news/headline/2025-04-04-new-aha-video-series-educates-trustees-health-care-environment <p>AHA Trustee Services has launched a new four-module, on-demand series of educational videos to help hospitals and health systems acclimate their board members to health care. The videos can also supplement existing board orientation programs and update current board members about key health care issues. <a href="https://trustees.aha.org/education/health-care-board-orientation"><strong>LEARN MORE </strong></a><br> </p> Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:06:58 -0500 Trustee Services /news/headline/2025-03-24-aha-trustee-services-competence-fiduciary-strategic-and-generative-governance-can-increase-board <p>An article in the latest edition of AHA's Trustee Insights explains why boards need to strengthen three key modes of governance — fiduciary, strategic and generative — to make smarter decisions and move from being good to great. <a href="https://trustees.aha.org/governance-and-three-modes" target="_blank"><strong>READ MORE</strong></a> </p> Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:49:49 -0500 Trustee Services /news/headline/2025-02-24-qa-highlights-how-board-rounding-improves-accountability-patient-safety <p>In a Q&A featured in the latest AHA Trustee Insights newsletter, leaders from UP Health System — Portage in Michigan discuss their process for implementing board rounding as a board orientation tool, providing trustees an opportunity to engage with front-line workers and better understand the organization's patient safety culture. <a href="https://trustees.aha.org/board-bedside-experiencing-patient-safety-culture-firsthand"><strong>READ MORE</strong></a> </p> Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:02:32 -0600 Trustee Services /news/headline/2025-02-14-obituary-renowned-health-care-author-and-futurist-ian-morrison <p>Ian Morrison, a highly regarded author, consultant and futurist, died last week. He specialized in long-term forecasting and planning with a particular emphasis on health care. Morrison was the 2018 recipient of AHA's Board of Trustees Award, which is presented to individuals or groups who have made substantial and noteworthy contributions to the work of the AHA, and was a long-time moderator and facilitator of the AHA Leadership Summit.   <br> <br>“Ian’s deep insights and keen observations on health care have helped enrich the AHA, America’s hospitals and health systems and the entire health care field,” said AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack. “An author and speaker, Ian translated information into knowledge for countless hospital and health systems leaders. We have all benefited from his experience and innovative way of thinking.”  <br> <br>Throughout his career, Morrison worked with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies in health care, manufacturing, information technology and financial services. He was the author of “Healthcare in the New Millennium: Vision, Values and Leadership and The Second Curve — Managing the Velocity of Change,” a New York Times Business Bestseller and Business Week Bestseller. <br> <br>Morrison was a past director of the AHA’s Health Research and Educational Trust, the research and education arm of the association. He also was a board member of the Martin Luther King Community Hospital in Los Angeles, a past director of the Center for Health Design and a past director and chair of the California Health Care Foundation. <br> <br>“Ian was one of our field’s best friends,” said AHA President Emeritus Rich Umbdenstock, who worked closely with Morrison. “He supported the hospital mission wholeheartedly, gently bringing us back to center whenever the latest development distracted us 'a wee bit' too much. Using data-based assessments and firsthand experience with both governmental and market-oriented systems, Ian deployed a humble futurist orientation and his incredible sense of humor to make his counsel compelling and digestible. He and his many gifts will be missed by all.” <br> <br>Morrison served as president of the Institute for the Future from 1990 to 1996, where he was responsible for leading the organization's growth and success. He was also a founding partner of Strategic Health Perspectives, a joint venture between Harris Interactive and the Harvard University School of Public Health. </p> Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:08:55 -0600 Trustee Services /news/headline/2025-01-21-2025-aha-committee-governance-chair-james-liggins-shares-what-lies-ahead-boards <p>In the latest issue of AHA's Trustee Insights newsletter, James Liggins, Jr., 2025 AHA Committee on Governance chair and board chair of Bronson Healthcare System, shares how boards need to prepare for integrating artificial intelligence and other emerging governance issues.<strong> </strong><a href="https://trustees.aha.org/2025-cog-chair-future-governance"><strong>READ MORE</strong></a><strong> </strong></p> Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:34:04 -0600 Trustee Services /news/headline/2024-10-23-aha-podcast-questions-board-members-should-be-asking-address-vulnerabilities <p>In this conversation, James Liggins, Jr., senior counsel at Warner Norcross + Judd, and vice chair of the board of directors at Bronson Healthcare, discusses his work developing a tool for board members that allows them to effectively understand and address areas of concern for their organizations. <a href="/advancing-health-podcast/2024-10-23-questions-board-members-should-be-asking-address-vulnerabilities"><strong>LISTEN NOW</strong></a></p> Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:37:54 -0500 Trustee Services /news/headline/2024-10-18-aha-podcast-strategies-creating-effective-and-diverse-board <p>In this conversation, Schonay Barnett-Jones, trustee at Children’s National Hospital and AHA board member, discusses strategies for recruiting a diverse board of trustees to any health care organization, and how to engage and retain the next generation of future board members. <a href="/advancing-health-podcast/2024-10-18-strategies-creating-effective-and-diverse-board?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aha-today"><strong>LISTEN NOW</strong></a> </p><div></div> Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:06:32 -0500 Trustee Services /news/headline/2024-07-31-aha-podcast-hospital-boards-lay-foundation-quality-and-safety <p>In a new "Safety Speaks" conversation, Jamie Orlikoff, president of Orlikoff & Associates, Inc. and AHA national adviser on governance and leadership, discusses the role hospital boards can play in supporting quality and safety within their health systems, and how board members who aren't clinicians or health care administrators can make a difference in patient safety. <a href="/advancing-health-podcast/2024-07-31-hospital-boards-lay-foundation-quality-and-safety"><strong>LISTEN NOW</strong></a></p> Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:04:23 -0500 Trustee Services