Governance Centre of Excellence
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For more information, contact Josie Mazzola at jmazzola@oha.com or (416) 205-1356
The Governance Centre of Excellence (GCE) provides a broad range of relevant services and educational programs including online resources and tools for health care trustees. The GCE released the
Guide to Good Governance in November, 2005 which provides a practical reference for trustees, providing an overview of best/recommended practices in health care governance as well as a wide variety of templates and examples from the field.
GLC Call for Nominations - NEW
The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for new members of the OHA’s Governance Leadership Council. This Council provides external expert service and counsel to the OHA Board of Directors on strategies required to ensure successful implementation of OHA’s governance program under the auspices of the Governance Centre of Excellence.
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The GCE is also pleased to introduce a new educational curriculum for health care trustees for 2007.
New Initiative Background – Key Philosophy
The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and The Change Foundation (TCF) commissioned an initiative to review and recommend a revised governance education program. While the existing program had been highly successful, a need existed to refresh and update the curriculum and learning methods to reflect changes in the world around hospitals and their boards.
The foundation of the governance education program is the Guide to Good Governance. This and its future updates provide the ongoing ‘content’ foundation to the excellence in the governance program.
The education program supports this foundation, teaching what is in the Guide. Some of the courses focus mainly on establishing the conditions for good governance – the process, structure and knowledge that create the conditions for effective governance – specifically, the Essentials Certificate in Health Care Governance course, the Board Secretaries Certificate in Good Governance course and, to a degree, the Certificate for Implementing the Guide to Good Governance course.
However, the education program does more. It supplements the content with the other key success factors for good governance – effective behaviour and decision-making. The Implementing the Guide to Good Governance program is about both process and behaviour, and hence, affects both aspects of the good governance success formula. The other courses are focused much more on the behaviour and decision-making competence of boards and individual trustees. They are focused on creating success-focused behaviour in the boardroom. Therefore, the Advanced Certificate in Board Governance program, the Leadership Certificate for Hospital Board Chairs, the Annual ‘Keeping Current’ conferences, as well as the committee seminars are very much geared to improving the level of informed thinking and dialogue among trustees so as to improve hospital success.
For more information please contact Josie Mazzola at jmazzola@oha.com or (416) 205-1356.