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Article: Recruiting effective hospital board members is becoming more difficult.
- Article from:
- Healthcare Strategic Management
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Community leaders once considered it an honor to serve on the boards of their local not-for-profit hospitals. But today, as board members are required to assume a more proactive role, the community leaders you need to attract to your board may feel overwhelmed by the responsibility--and the enormity of the task they face.
As a result, attracting and keeping board members for not-for-profit community hospital boards has become more challenging than ever before.
Board members are increasingly conscious of their heightened fiduciary responsibilities. With hospitals in many communities facing serious financial difficulties, board members know they inevitably ...