Vicente Academic Medical Center Case Study: Highlighting Healthcare Leadership's Role in Risk Management and Governance Training to Strengthen Oversight and Strategic Decision-Making Cover Image

Vicente Academic Medical Center Case Study: Highlighting Healthcare Leadership's Role in Risk Management and Governance Training to Strengthen Oversight and Strategic Decision-Making
Vicente Academic Medical Center Case Study: Highlighting Healthcare Leadership's Role in Risk Management and Governance Training to Strengthen Oversight and Strategic Decision-Making

Author(s): Noelia Cantu
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Governance, Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Scientia Moralitas Research Institute
Keywords: healthcare enterprise risk management (HRM); HRM governance board training; HRM strategic decision-making; HRM implementation and governance;

Summary/Abstract: Healthcare Enterprise Risk Management (HRM) Governance Training enhances the HRM implementation process and boosts oversight and strategic decisionmaking. The healthcare board's role in implementing an integrated HRM framework, setting strategic direction and risk appetite, and overseeing GRC frameworks should inspire confidence in leadership's influence on organizational resilience and risk management effectiveness, especially amid funding uncertainties. This reassurance encourages leaders to feel capable and motivated to drive change and is more effective when combined with HRM governance training. This case study review highlights that successful HRM implementation, continuous improvement, and risk management depend on engaging and training board members, executives, and risk-ownership committee members (strategy owners, risk-category owners, and functional owners), making them feel valued, responsible, and trained to promote an organizational-wide, risk-awareness culture that maintains and develops the organization's strategic goals and objectives. Preparing key strategic measures (e.g., aligning with the strategic plan, setting risk appetite and risk tolerance, and fostering a risk-aware culture) before launching HRM initiatives helps reinforce their importance and value in the process. A welltrained and engaged HRM board, executives, and risk ownership committee members are more confident in setting expectations for known, unknown, and unknowable risk events.

  • Issue Year: 10/2025
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 324-341
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English
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