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PHILADELPHIA, PA- June 9, 2009- Hospitals are increasingly adopting online tools to improve the governance process of their Boards.

Salem Hospital, Tahoe Forest Hospital, and Shore Memorial Health System, respectively based in Oregon, California, and New Jersey, have chosen to use BoardEffect and to adopt E-governance. Hospitals and Health Systems, like other nonprofit organizations, have the responsibility to be transparent and accountable to their stakeholders. Using a secure board portal such as BoardEffect enables them to store and record critical information that will be easily retrievable during clinical audits.

The portal also provides a private place for committees to share information and to communicate with each other using such features as Committee Polls and Committee Live Talk.

"We are excited to see our client list diversify. We welcome those hospitals and health systems and guarantee the highest level of support as they navigate through their portal”, said Leanne Bergey, CEO and President at BoardEffect.

About Salem Hospital

At Salem Hospital, we strive to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve. We hold ourselves accountable for quality, service, people, performance, community. To learn more, visit, www.salemhospital.org.

About Tahoe Forest Health System

Tahoe Forest Health System is devoted to excellence, and the health and life of its patients. We strive to be the best mountain community health system in the nation. To learn more, visit www.tfhd.com.

About Shore Memorial Health System

At Shore Memorial, we are dedicated to being your hospital of choice, providing the highest quality healthcare services with respect and a caring, human touch. This is our sincere promise to you, your family and our community. To learn more, visit www.shorememorial.org.

PHILADELPHIA, PA – May 7, 2009 – BoardEffect is pleased to announce the launch of an upgraded version of the portal. The new version, which was designed with clients in mind, will enhance the efficiency and functionality of the tool, facilitating the work of boards of directors even more.
 
BoardEffect’s 50 plus clients, who include American Academy of Family Physicians, Metropolitan Capital Bank, and Fresno State Alumni Association, can now benefit from an increased functionality of the meeting books and the board manual with their customizable templates, password-protection (for the meeting books), and the ability to compile their contents into one PDF. “Being able to gather board documents into a PDF format was one of our clients’ main requests. We are delighted to be able to provide this functionality and to be responsive to their needs” said Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Vice President at BoardEffect.
 
In addition, the upgrades include the creation of private folders for individual board members, role-based access levels to further control user access to information, and an improvement of the organization and management of committee documents. Through the addition of categories for committee files, and the provision of full meeting book functionality within the committee workroom, access to files is facilitated and productivity increased. "We are very pleased about the recent upgrades to our portal and to know that BoardEffect is on our side, constantly working to improve our governance process," said BoardEffect user Cheryl Wentz, Executive Assistant, at Landmark on the Sound.
 
About Landmark on the Sound

Landmark on the Sound is a premier senior living community that fosters and promotes independence, security, dignity, for individuals through a network of services while continuing an 80-year old tradition of caring and compassion. To learn more, visit www.landmarkonthesound.com.
 

Sonia Stamm brings twenty years of experience in leadership development, training, and management consulting within the nonprofit, service, and technology arenas. Committed to supporting the evolution of mission-based organizations, Sonia has worked with a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit enterprises in the areas of governance, leadership transition and succession, and organizational effectiveness. In 2008, she established The Stamm Consultancy to help nonprofit and entrepreneurial clients build more cohesive organizations.

As a BoardEffect Consultant, Sonia will work with users in maximizing and assessing BoardEffect's impact on organizations. She also will concentrate on building strong relationships with prospective and existing clients to ensure that BoardEffect continues to enhance the governance capacity of nonprofit and for-profit boards of directors.

Since 2001, Sonia has been affiliated with The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University, a management support organization for nonprofits in the Greater Philadelphia region, as a consultant and trainer. For five years, she also served in staff roles as Director of Educational Programs and Director of Leadership Initiatives, creating and launching programs to promote effective leadership for nonprofit executive directors and boards. Sonia previously was Senior Consultant at CEO Resources, Inc., a retained executive search firm specializing in recruiting leadership for growing service and technology-based companies in the mid-Atlantic region.

Before joining CEO Resources, Sonia held staff position at Ben Franklin Technology Partners and Womens Way. She has served as a director of several nonprofit boards, including Options, Inc., and Women Organized Against Rape. For two years, Sonia coached emerging companies at the Mid-Atlantic Venture Fair.

Sonia earned a M.Ed. in adult and organizational development from Temple University and a B.S. in communications technology from Ithaca College. She also holds a certificate in Nonprofit Board Leadership from The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University.

PHILADELPHIA, PA – APRIL 16, 2009 – Based in Leawood, KS, the American Academy of Family Physicians, one of the largest national medical organizations representing more than 94,600 family physicians, decide to use BoardEffect® to enhance board engagement and participation by keeping it informed with the centralized resource library and easily accessible meeting books.
 
"By using BoardEffect, the AAFP Board of Directors will be able to access a private Web site to share information; post and retrieve documents, photos, and video and audio files; and receive automated reminders of meetings and updates to the site," said Douglas E. Henley, M.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Academy of Family Physicians. "Since our directors are located throughout the United States and travel frequently, BoardEffect will enable them to continue their important work for our members from almost anywhere in the world. I like to think of it as a virtual office that's open 24/7."
 
Other organizations have decided to use BoardEffect to address similar board communication issues; including The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, California P.E.O Home in Alhambra, and Carroll Hospital in Westminster. Dottie Schindlinger, BoardEffect Executive Vice President added: “Board portals are effective tools that have proven to improve board involvement and readiness. Boards of Directors can now focus on their mission instead of being distracted by administrative ‘house keeping.” We are delighted that AAFP chose BoardEffect to streamline board information management and increase productivity.”
 
About AAFP

Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents more than 94,600 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the only medical society devoted solely to primary care. To learn more about the AAFP and about the specialty of family medicine, please visit www.aafp.org. For more information about the AAFP's positions on issues and clinical care and downloadable multi-media on family medicine and health care, visit the AAFP Media Center at www.aafp.org/media. For more information about health care, health conditions, and wellness, please visit www.familydoctor.org.
 

PHILADELPHIA, PA – APRIL 2, 2009 – Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), an accreditation agency dedicated to helping Christian ministries earn the public’s trust, has selected BoardEffect to reduce printing costs and administrative time by distributing board documents electronically.
 
Dan Busby, President of ECFA comments, “BoardEffect allows us to enhance governance efficiency while at the same time reducing our print and administrative costs. Assembling board and committee books can be labor intensive and expensive to produce. BoardEffect allows us to assemble and distribute a book in a short time.”
 
“It has become increasingly important for organizations to get information to their members as swiftly as possible. Board portals facilitate that flow of information through electronic distribution. We are honored that ECFA chose BoardEffect to address that need,” said Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Vice President of BoardEffect.
 
Board Effect provides an efficient means for non-profit organizations to facilitate good governance while saving administrative expenses. “A program that reduces overhead while allowing a non-profit to be more effective is a win-win situation” added Dan Busby.
 
About ECFA

Founded in 1979, ECFA provides accreditation to leading Christian nonprofit organizations that faithfully demonstrate compliance with established standards for financial accountability, fund-raising and board governance. To learn more, visit www.ecfa.org.