Table 3.

Descriptive statistics of FQHC trustees

Mean board size	13.2 trustees
Range board size	5–29 trustees
Hold board office	29.2%
Hold board chair	8.0%
Mean board tenure	60.3 months
Median board tenure	36 months
Boards with ≥ 1 physician	33.7%
Board with ≥ 1 representative patient on executive committee	51.6%
Board with ≥ 1 non‐representative patient on executive committee	81.1%
Expertise
Business / management	24.8%
Patient	17.4%
Other white collar	11.2%
Other blue collar	9.8%
Education	9.7%
Other health care	9.3%
Government	5.6%
Social work	4.3%
Law	4.3%
Physician	3.3%
N = 31 168 trustees (963 Unique FQHCs) (2517 FQHC years)