title: Breaking the mold. This system no longer takes a cookie-cutter approach to choosing board members.
abstract: When a system is formed from a hospital merger, the first board usually includes some from here and some from there. Eventually, the board or the CEO recognizes that this configuration undermines the system, and the board reinvents itself. But Clarian Health Partners started with a "nonrepresentational" board from the get-go, thus avoiding the usual turf issues and decision gridlock.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D006075:Governing Board / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007196:Indiana; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods*