A health care CEO’s most important responsibility is to maintain the sacredness of the patient-clinician relationship and ensure that interaction is as valuable for both the physician and the patient as possible.

What competencies are needed in the boardroom to advance the mission of creating healthier communities? How do health care system governance boards make these changes?

A checklist of leadership skills for building trust through transparency, actions, and consistency that apply to health care mergers as well as day-to-day health care leadership.

Innovative examples of overcoming challenges in rural health care access caused by distance, weather, clinician shortages, and other reasons, by connecting with patients virtually and locally.

Value-based care frees up health care organizations to go upstream and invest in the health and well-being of their community members.

In strategic partnerships with others focused on improving costs and efficiencies, a health system needs to continue to be the right side of the brain, looking for the opportunities, not doing the routine tasks.

We need to redesign the care delivery model in a way that allows physicians to be the good doctors they are while still providing patients with full access to care.

Everyone in health care can integrate Mangomoments into their daily practice.

Sustainable, forward-looking health care systems need to provide community-based care while managing risk-based economic models and populations.

The bar is not set for high-performing health care systems. It’s moving, with many opportunities to improve beyond inconsistent greatness. Transformation involves changes in mindsets, culture, and processes, along with a particular approach to care delivery.