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A hospital board creates ends policies
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
board leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1542-7862
pISSN - 1061-4249
DOI - 10.1002/bl.38619973404
Subject(s) - politics , face (sociological concept) , task (project management) , point (geometry) , power (physics) , liability , business , public administration , law and economics , finance , political science , economics , management , sociology , law , social science , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics
Hospitals literally hold the power of life and death over most of us at some point in our lives. The boards that govern these complex organizations, particularly in the United States and Canada, face staggering fiscal, political, and liability issues. In this fourth—and last—installment in a series on the development of ends policies, I illustrate the daunting task of creating ends policies as the board of a nonprofit hospital in a mid‐size community might approach it.