What makes a board innovative?
A study of 20 community hospital boards suggests that boards of trustees whose members represent a wide variety of occupational backgrounds are more likely to be innovative and to initiate new programs and services than are more homogeneous boards. The innovative hospital boards also had more women and minority group members, more members under 50, and moe members who lived in their hospital's primary service area.
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