Most healthcare institutions are carrying active cultural risk exposure right now — and the board has no way of knowing it.
Cultural risk is the governance domain that produces hostile work environment litigation, escalation system failures, clinical bias in care delivery, and community trust collapse. It is the only major enterprise risk category in healthcare with no dedicated governance framework.
I walk through the five specific governance mistakes that create it — what each one looks like inside your institution right now, and why training and DEI programs cannot fix what is fundamentally a structural problem.
