Yaffe & Company, Inc. is your educational resource for effective governance of your non-profit organization.  Our goal is to provide executive and board leaders with the data, guidance, and best practice processes that are needed to be efficient and compliant.

In this section you will find papers, articles, presentations, and reports covering current issues and topics that impact your leadership teams:

  • Recent survey results and reports
  • Current trends in compensation, benefits, and retirement programs
  • Best practices for governance, compensation, and compliance

Latest Resources

  • 2011 Executive Compensation Report for Non-Profit Rehabilitation Hospitals

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    Yaffe & Company is pleased to present its 2011 Executive Compensation Report for Non-Profit Rehabilitation Hospitals. 72 organizations from across the country were invited to participate, and over 16% responded. Being that the survey is in its inaugural year, the results are being provided at no cost to all participants and invited organizations. In future years, the complimentary report will only be available to participating organizations.

    This year’s report includes data on 9 executive positions from 12 non-profit rehabilitation hospitals. The survey report presents base salary, total cash compensation and benefits information. In addition, the survey report provides information on the prevalence and practices of the following:

    • Incentive plans
    • Benefits programs, including basic life insurance, and long term disability
    • Supplemental Retirement programs
    • Contract Information
    • Perquisites, including automobile, club memberships, financial counseling, etc.

     

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  • “Caught in Transit” – by Saundra Tracy & Jeff Abernathy (Inside Higher Ed, 2010)

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    As written in Inside Higher Ed, July 14, 2010.  Click on the link below to read the full article.

    “Where does one learn how to navigate the dynamics of a presidential transition? Every college president has dedicated significant time to how to carry out the functions of a president. Each presidential candidate has spent untold hours determining how best to present oneself as a candidate. But few have planned how to act in this undefined space in which one is in the process of either bringing to an end or beginning a college presidency.

    For the two of us — Saundra Tracy, the 12th president of Alma College, and Jeff Abernathy, the 13th — these were, to put it mildly, strange times.”

  • The Expanding Role of the Compensation Committee

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    Rian and Alexander Yaffe co-authored a Monograph for the Center for Healthcare Goverenance focusing on the evolving role of the Compensation Committee.

    Historically, CEO compensation often was set by the hospital board chair or a small group of board leaders, with little or no input from the rest of the board. Even as compensation committees started to perform their roles more thoroughly, the full board was not made aware of the committee’s work or results. In recent years, increased regulatory requirements, the revised Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990, media attention and general public scrutiny have focused board attention on executive compensation. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), which links Medicare payments to clinical quality measures and the patient’s overall care experience, has further sharpened the focus on hospital, and therefore executive, performance. These trends and the introduction of performance-based variable pay plans have added goal-setting for and performance evaluation of the organization’s chief executive to the duties of the Compensation Committee. In this context, the role of the board’s Compensation Committee has expanded, in scope and importance, beyond setting top executive salaries. The committee has become responsible for clarifying a health care organization’s strategic goals and aligning their accomplishment with compensation.

    Today, the committee’s role continues to expand, as it is being called upon to oversee succession planning and senior executive bench strength development. It now performs virtually all important human resource functions related to the organization’s top executives.

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  • Preparing for Your Presidential Transition

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    A president’s announcement of retirement signals the beginning of a major change for an institution. How this announcement is made and the steps the retiring president takes in the months that follow have a great deal to do with the smoothness of this transition for both the institution and the retiring president. The following are some points to consider as one prepares for this significant personal and institutional event.

     

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  • Preparing for a Presidential Retirement: From the Board’s Perspective

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    The following steps summarize effective Board practices in preparation for a presidential retirement or transition.  In additional, they will assist and prepare the institution and the Board for a successful presidential search process.  They offer the opportunity to appropriately recognize the contributions of a retiring president, and enhance the probability of the new president’s success.

     

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