title: How one hospital association became the Healthcare Forum. Interview by Terese Hudson.
abstract: In 1987, the Association of Western Hospitals, a San Francisco-based educational organization became the Healthcare Forum, directed at improving the leadership skills of senior management teams. More recently, the organization has put an emphasis on training leaders in methods to make their communities healthier. While the Forum has fewer members than it did as a 13-state association, they are more far-flung: members reside in all 50 states and 38 counties. Forum CEO Kathryn Johnson told senior writer Terese Hudson about how and why the group reinvented itself.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D018672:Community Health Planning; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000193:education; D007857:Leadership; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012954:Societies, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014341:Trustees