Equipping Your Board: Strengthening Governance with Data

Health center boards are federally required to provide oversight of financial performance, quality outcomes, CEO performance, and compliance risk. But ensuring boards receive the right information — at the right level — is the responsibility of the leadership team.

Too often, executive teams struggle with:

  • Determining which data must legally be reviewed
  • Differentiating governance-level indicators from operational metrics
  • Avoiding data overload while still demonstrating compliance
  • Ensuring board minutes clearly reflect required oversight

Grounded in expectations from the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Health Center Program Compliance Manual, this practical two-part webinar series is aimed to help health center teams design reporting systems that both satisfy compliance requirements and strengthen strategic governance.

Session 1: Board Compliance Essentials

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This session reviewed federal governance expectations for health center boards and translated them into concrete reporting practices. Participants will review required financial oversight, quality reporting (including Uniform Data System measures), CEO evaluation standards, and risk management documentation requirements.

Session 2: Board Compliance Measures – What Data Belongs At The Board Level

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Providing data is not enough. Leadership teams must determine which indicators truly belong at the governance level. This session focused on selecting appropriate financial, quality, access, workforce, and compliance measures that support strategic oversight without overwhelming board members. Participants left with a practical framework for evaluating and refining their board-level metrics, examples of effective board dashboards and key questions board members should ask when reviewing performance data.

Webinar Series | April 6 and April 20 , 2026

Session 1: Board Compliance Essentials

Session 2: Board Compliance Measures – What Data Belongs At The Board Level