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2025

   
• Cybersecurity: Boards Must Prepare for an Increase in Number and Scale Attacks
• President’s Notebook: Improving Maternal Outcomes in Arkansas
• Governance Notebook                               
  • AAHT Regional Dinners                  
  • AAHT Website
• Ensuring Meaningful Mission, Vision and Values 

• Planning for 2025 and Beyond: What Boards Need to Know to Prepare for Success
• President’s Notebook: Advancing Care Through Innovation
• Governance Notebook 
• Legislative Updates
• AAHT Regional Dinners
• AAHT Website

2024

• Measuring Equity in Patient Care
• President’s Notebook: In Our Care
• Board Leadership Hazards: 10 Events to Watch Out For 

• Cultivating a Vibrant Governance Culture
• President’s Notebook: A Sense of Community
• Governance Notebook
•  Strategies for Successful Board Meetings: The Role of the Board Chair
•  Leveraging Your Board Retreat: Creating Board Alignment and Building Relationships

• 2024 Trends and Projections: What Boards Need to Know from the AHA Environmental Scan
• President’s Notebook
• Governance Notebook: AAHT New Member at Large
• Navigating the Future: The Imperative of Effective Trustee Succession Planning

• What Are the Most Prominent Health Needs in Your Community?
• Telling Your Community Benefit Story

2023

• Artificial Intelligence: Early Adopter or Not, All Boards Must Be Prepared

• President’s Notebook: Finding Solutions

• Governance Notebook
  • AAHT Open Board Position
  • AAHT 2024 Dues

• Prioritizing Board Chair Succession Planning

• Trustee Advocacy Matters

• Feature Article: Rural Disaster Response – A Conversation with St. Bernards CrossRidge Community Hospital

• Good Governance Starts with a Commitment to Education

• Creating a Culture of Safety

• The AHA President’s Notebook: “Determination”

• CMS Expectations for Board Oversight of Quality and Patient Safety

• National Governance Trends: Ten Board Practices for Discussion
 

• 2023 Environmental Assessment: Leveraging Opportunities and Building Resilience

• The AHA President’s Notebook

• Feature Article from Jefferson Regional “Adopting a Plan for Board Continuing Education”

• The Board’s Role: Using Trends for Strategic Thinking

2022

• Ensuring a Safe Work Environment: Preventing Violence Against Health Care Workers

• The AHA President’s Notebook: “Protect Our Hospitals, Protect Arkansas”

• Governance Notebook
  • AAHT 2022-2024 President
  • AAHT Open Board Positions
  • AAHT 2023 Dues

• Building Leadership Resiliency and Restoring Joy to the Workforce

• Basics of Good Governance: Review is Important for New and Experienced Trustees
  • The Board’s Fiduciary Responsibility
  • Understanding the Mission, Vision and Values
  • Quality and Patient Safety
  • The Board/CEO Partnership
  • Strategic Planning
  • Community Needs and Partnerships
  • Medical Staff Collaboration
  • Financial Performance
  • Questions All Board Members Should be Able to Answer

• The AHA President’s Notebook: “One Voice”

• Governance Notebook
  • Cyber Workshop, October 12 – Save the Date!
  • AHA Annual Meeting Announced

• Board Leadership: Finding the Balance Between Macroleadership and Micromanagement

• President’s Notebook: “Standing Strong”

• Governance Notebook
  • Upcoming Education
  • AAHT Communications

• Preparing for New Cybersecurity Threats

• Preventing Conflict of Interest: Keeping Hospital Interests at the Forefront

• Supporting an Exhausted Workforce and Preventing Future Shortages

• The AHA President’s Notebook: “Going Strong”

• Governance Notebook
  • Governance Ethics Webinar – May 17th
  • AAHT Board Openings

• Improving Experiences for Patient and Families: Life Beyond the Pandemic