If boards mean business, they'll refocus the governance function.
Emulating the business world will require hospitals to examine board structure, size, and composition. It also will require a reexamination of hospital management's structure, especially lines of authority and the relationships among organizational units. This article provides guidelines to facilitate such examinations.
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