Strategic Planning Checklist

Successful rural hospitals have deployed a number of strategies, tactics, and benchmarks that set them apart from the others. This final session of our strategy series provides a checklist of dozens of improvements and approaches successfully implemented at peer rural hospitals. Join the State Office of Rural Health and Texas Healthcare Trustees as we explore what works and what doesn’t…

Strategic Planning Overview

. This session will provide an overview of the board’s pivotal role in shaping and supporting your organization’s strategy. The session will delve into the development and oversight of a strategic plan with key considerations for rural hospitals, as well as how to maintain proper oversight to make your strategic plan an actionable and effective roadmap. Lastly, we will hear…

Physician Credentialing: How-To and Common Mistakes Webinar

Join THT for our upcoming webinar on physician credentialing where experts Spencer Smith and Anna Dubois will provide an overview of the process and the important role of trustees. This session will provide a comprehensive review of physician onboarding and credentialing and how it relates to advancing quality and patient safety in our hospitals. Dubois and Smith will also cover…

Texas Health Care Compliance Issues for Your Board

Join our exclusive webinar for hospital board members to delve into current and emerging critical compliance issues affecting Texas hospitals. In the dynamic landscape of health care, staying abreast of regulatory changes and compliance requirements is paramount. This session will provide an overview of new legal and regulatory developments stemming from Texas’ recent legislative sessions. Attendees will gain valuable insights…

Best Effort Security

This timely webinar for health care leaders is a discussion on current security threats and typical organizational solutions for countering those threats. Through a review of current cyber incidents, participants will gain an understanding of why, despite well-designed countermeasures, security incidents and breaches continue to occur. During the session the phrase “best-effort security” will be defined, how “best-effort” leads to security failures, and four areas of focus that will help any organization move from “best-effort” to “effective security.”

Governance Ethics in Health Care Organizations

America’s hospitals and health care systems are currently facing an unprecedented array of demographic, economic, and social challenges. Addressing these challenges effectively demands collaboration by board, clinical, and executive leadership. Many of the challenges involve ethical as well as financial, operational, and strategic considerations. Establishing the ethical standards of conduct that provide the foundation for the organization’s biomedical, managerial, and organizational ethics and decision-making is vested directly in its governing board.