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COVID-19 is a significant risk that compels hospital boards to react in an agile manner. Good governance requires active and effective oversight as hospitals continue to manage the pandemic for an indefinite period. Emerging from the first wave of COVID, in the context of continuously evolving restrictions, hospital boards must transition from interim solutions to sustainable practices. This new environment requires agile practices grounded in clear roles, sound structures and transparent processes. Boards can seize this opportunity to reflect on best practices, extract underlying principles of good governance and elevate these practices into a "new normal" governance environment.
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COVID-19/terapia , Administração Hospitalar , Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto , COVID-19/epidemiologia , Conselho Diretor/organização & administração , Administração Hospitalar/métodos , Humanos , Ontário , Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto/normasRESUMO
Lengthy emergency room wait times leaving patients waiting for essential care. Dwindling annual budgets putting core services at risk. Cyberattacks resulting in ransomed data. These are just some of the ever-present risks in the healthcare sector. Each of these risks has a potential for high likelihood of occurrence, impact, and velocity. Identifying, assessing, mitigating, and reporting risk are therefore crucial to Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), and should be built into healthcare institutional processes. This column provides some recommendations for health leaders on how to enable effective oversight through ERM.
