Board Duties
This duty requires board members to be careful, diligent, and thoughtful.
What is the Duty of Care?
This is what we call a situation where personal interests could influence decision-making.
What is a conflict of interest?
Compliance is considered whose responsibility at May Institute.
What is EVERYONE'S?
This compliance key encourages collaboration and input and is the glue that connects all the other keys.
What is a Team Approach?
Information about persons served and employees learned through Board service should be treated as this and never disclosed or discussed inappropriately.
What is confidential information?
This duty requires acting in the best interest of the organization above personal interests.
What is the Duty of Loyalty?
If there’s any doubt about whether a conflict of interest exists, this step should always be taken.
What is disclosure?
Compliance gurus.
Who is Terese Brennan and Nicole Bussiere?
Policies, SOPs, and standards fall under this key.
What are Standards and Procedures?
Name, DOB, address, and diagnosis are examples of this type of information.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
Board members don’t need to be experts, but they must do this to stay informed and fulfill their responsibilities.
What is due diligence?
A Conflict of Interest Form, in which each board members discloses any relationships, financial interests, affiliations, or situations that could potentially influence, or appear to influence, a board member’s judgment or decision-making on behalf of the organization is completed this often.
What is one time per year and/or when a potential conflict arises?
This person is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors at May Institute?
Who is Richard Wichmann?
Surprise audits.
What is Nicole's favorite activity?
Sharing identifiable client information without authorization violates this law.
What is HIPAA?
Sixty seven years.
What is the average age of the Board?
After disclosing a conflict, you should remove yourself from these activities.
What is discussion and/or voting?
This Board member is the Chairperson of the Compliance Committee.
Who is Nancy Nager?
This tool allows anonymous or formal reporting of concerns, an important part of the Communication Key in May's Compliance Plan.
What is the Compliance/Privacy Helpline?
You overhear details about an employee investigation during a Board meeting. Later at brunch, your friend says, “So… what’s the tea at May Institute lately?” The correct compliance response is this.
What is “Absolutely nothing. I’m required to keep that information confidential”?
Acting in good faith, in the best interest of the organization, and with reasonable care results in protection from this for board members.
What is protection from liability?
The person who reports concerns internally before they become a Netflix documentary.
Who is a whistleblower? (e.g. The Insider)
This person/role supervises the Compliance Officer.
Who is May Institute’s CEO (Lauren Solotar)?
Approaching identified compliance violations with accountability and systems review is part of this key.
What is Responding Appropriately to Detected Violations?
Loose lips.
What sinks ships?