Education needs of hospital governing boards.
Hospital governing board members serve voluntarily, however they are integral to their hospitals' operations. This article investigates if there is a discrepancy between board members' knowledge of healthcare issues and how important they perceive these issues to be in their hospitals' operations and direction. In addition, it offers preliminary steps on how to ensure that board members are kept well-informed and up-to-date on issues for strategy planning in the healthcare marketplace.
Department of Health Science, University of North Florida, Jacksonville.
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