title: Building healthy communities. Six steps for the board.
abstract: Many trustees believe that health care reform must begin in the communities that their organizations serve. To become the visionary leaders that health care needs, trustees must reexamine many long-held beliefs and values, adopt 21st-century principles of governance, embrace the concept of a healthy community, and develop a systematic plan for change. Based on the collective knowledge of boards that have successfully led their organizations through change, the plan described here consists of a systematic six-step process. The process begins with techniques for creating awareness of the need to change and ends with techniques for measuring and sustaining gains (see figure 1 at right).
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Goodspeed
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006075:Governing Board / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006304:Health Status; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D014481:United States