County Board Moves to Rebuild Hennepin Healthcare Board, Hires Consultant for Search
Resolution 26-0216 directs the county administrator to retain an outside firm to recruit and vet candidates for a reconstituted hospital board while shaping a long-term capital planning strategy for the safety-net system.
The Board of Hennepin County Commissioners took up a resolution Thursday directing the county administrator to retain an outside consultant to recruit and vet candidates for a reconstituted Hennepin Healthcare System board of directors and to help develop a capital planning strategy for the county's safety-net hospital system.
The measure, Resolution 26-0216, was among roughly two dozen items on the agenda for the board's 1:30 p.m. meeting, but it drew particular attention because it addresses governance at one of the largest public institutions the county oversees. Hennepin Healthcare System operates as a public subsidiary corporation whose board members are appointed by the county board.
Under the resolution, the consultant would identify and screen prospective directors for the reconstituted board, and would also assist county staff and hospital leadership in framing a capital planning approach for aging facilities and future investment needs.
Hennepin Healthcare is essential infrastructure for this county, and getting the governance right is the first step toward getting the capital plan right.
Two tasks, one contract
The resolution pairs the recruitment work with capital planning, an approach commissioners described as deliberate. Hospital capital decisions — including facility renovation, replacement and equipment financing — typically require board approval and, in some cases, county backing, making the composition of the hospital board directly relevant to the size and timing of future capital commitments.
We are asking a consultant to do two things at once because they are connected. You cannot ask a new board to approve a decades-long capital strategy that it had no hand in shaping.
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