Matt Anderson

Matt Anderson

MN, US
Senior Vice President of Policy & Chief Strategy Officer, Minnesota Hospital Association

Matt Anderson is senior vice president of policy and chief strategy officer for the Minnesota Hospital Association. Before joining the hospital association in 2006, he handled complex litigation and public policy issues for the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. He also served as the intellectual capital leader and principal for Mercer's Government Human Services Consulting sector, and is the founder of Atrede Consulting.

Matt has provided strategic planning, board governance and meeting facilitation services to a broad range of organizations, especially in the health care sector. In particular, he has extensive experience with strategic planning activities for hospitals, long-term care providers, group purchasing organizations, and state hospital and long-term care associations. He is a frequent speaker on a wide range of health care topics including state and federal health care trends, payment and delivery reform, insurance markets and reforms, rural health care, health care financing, and community benefits, even occasionally drawing upon other fields such as behavioral economics, theoretical physics and Broadway musicals.

Anderson is a graduate of St. John's University and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota.

Matt Anderson is senior vice president of policy and chief strategy officer for the Minnesota Hospital Association. Before joining the hospital association in 2006, he handled complex litigation and public policy issues for the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. He also served as the intellectual capital leader and principal for Mercer's Government Human Services Consulting sector, and is the founder of Atrede Consulting.

Matt has provided strategic planning, board governance and meeting facilitation services to a broad range of organizations, especially in the health care sector. In particular, he has extensive experience with strategic planning activities for hospitals, long-term care providers, group purchasing organizations, and state hospital and long-term care associations. He is a frequent speaker on a wide range of health care topics including state and federal health care trends, payment and delivery reform, insurance markets and reforms, rural health care, health care financing, and community benefits, even occasionally drawing upon other fields such as behavioral economics, theoretical physics and Broadway musicals.

Anderson is a graduate of St. John's University and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota.

Training Camp for New and New-ish Trustees

The array of requirements, expectations and decisions facing hospital and health system trustees are daunting - daunting, but not insurmountable. This session provides the grounding foundation to go beyond mere compliance with basic, minimum requirements, and build more effective board practices and cultures and, ultimately, more strategic governing bodies.
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Governance Best Practices for Hospital Boards

What differentiates high-functioning hospital boards from those that seem mired down and contentious? How can individual trustees contribute to creating a more effective and strategic board? Does board governance and performance translate into differences in care quality or financial stability for the organization? Learn the best practices from high-functioning hospital boards that you can implement to produce better board meetings, better board decisions, and better organizational...

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Governance Best Practices for Public Hospital Boards: Leadership in a Fishbowl

Public hospital boards face unique challenges and limitations that trustees need to take into account and adapt their practices accordingly. Understanding these unique aspects of governance before facing a crisis, dealing with a high-profile public issue, or addressing conflict among board members will increase the resilience of the board and the organization as a whole. Sure, it's a fishbowl but the water doesn't have to be cold!
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Health Care Finance 101

Unlike many fields with intuitive financing built on traditional platforms of supply and demand or retailer and consumer, health care's financing can be a dizzying patchwork of systems with different incentives, value tradeoffs, and potential pitfalls for patients and providers. Like a mosaic, this session provides real, practical explanations of how these various systems relate to each other, you can see the larger picture, and then make better and more informed strategic decisions for...

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Will Hospitals be Relevant?

Hospitals are a critical component in the health care ecosystem today, but some are predicting that hospitals will lose their relevance or cease to exist altogether. With cost pressures rising, workforce shortages, more and more services and procedures available in other settings, will hospitals have a role in the future and what will it be? This presentation lays out the framework for hospitals' future and context for boards' strategic planning discussions.
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Trustee Advocates: Going Beyond Fiduciary Duties

Trustees' fiduciary duties represent minimum standards trustees must meet. In today's health care world, our hospitals and communities need more than the bare minimum: we need Trustee Advocates. Trustees are influential members of their communities who see health care delivery from a unique perspective. By embracing the role of Trustee Advocate, you can be a powerful force for communicating your organization's and community's needs and influencing public policy at the local, state and federal...
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