Abstract
The role of hospital boards in making policy is examined. Board members of 47 large hospitals in southeastern Pennsylvania and southwestern New Jersey are surveyed concerning their assessments of 1) board power relative to the executive director, 2) key hospital priority areas for the next three years, and 3) their qualifications to make decisions in these priority areas. Relative to other operational areas, a greater number of governing board members assign high priority to cost control, quality control, and relations with third party payers. Perceived qualifications to make decisions in all operational areas vary with the occupations of board members. A greater proportion of physicians and administrators as compared with other occupational groups rate themselves as very well qualified in operational areas relating to medical care programs and in relations with special agencies affecting hospital reimbursement and expansion.
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