• Upcoming Educational Events
• Continue Your Education from Your Home or Office
• New Books
• ACHe-news
• Other ache.org Resources

Upcoming Educational Events

Register online for ACHE’s educational programs. Information and registration instructions for these events are available from the links provided or call the Customer Service Center at (312) 424-9400.

• Join us in beautiful Keystone, Colorado for two new ACHE seminars, January 26-29, 2009. Programs are designed to strengthen leadership and strategy skills. And the unique modified cluster schedule offers a break between morning and afternoon sessions.
• Grasp knowledge that will stay with you for a lifetime. The Las Vegas Cluster, February 9-12 features the new seminar "Possibilities, Probabilities and Creative Solutions Breakthrough and a opportunity to also benefit from ACHE's Healthcare Executive Career Resource Center – offered the entire week.

Continue Your Education from Your Home or Office

ACHE is committed to making continuing education accessible and cost-effective. Our distance learning options offer you the opportunity to earn continuing education credit easily. Sign up for these upcoming events:

• "Performance Improvement Today," a six week online course from January 14-February 25, 2009 introduces you to a range of contemporary performance improvement methodologies and topics that include Lean, Six Sigma, Benchmarking, Balanced Scorecards and the Baldrige National Quality Program. Seminar leaders Tiffany Davis and Wendy Novicoff, PhD, provide the skills needed to promote performance improvement within your institution and help select methodologies that fit your organization’s culture and needs.
• Development of an ambulatory surgery center should not be approached hastily. Let webinar presenter Fred W. Ortmann III, deepen your knowledge of key concepts and advancements in the webinar "Ambulatory Surgery Centers - The Basics and Beyond Performance," on February 18, 2009.

New Books

• Leading Healthcare Cultures: How Human Capital Drives Financial Performance
• The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools, Second Edition
• What Top-Performing Healthcare Organizations Know: 7 Proven Steps for Accelerating and Achieving Change
• Inside the Physician Mind: Finding Common Ground with Doctors

ACHe-news

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1. New Member Benefit in 2009
2. Apply to Recertify by Dec. 31

Healthcare Newsbriefs:

1. Uninsured Put Strain on Hospitals

2. Linking Credit Scores to Hospital Care

View the complete December 11 issue of ACHe-news

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Other ache.org Resources

• 10 Critical Growth Strategies Healthcare Executives Must Know
  In today’s challenging economy, leaders of many healthcare organizations find themselves simply maintaining their current financial situation and not even considering growth. However, growth is still not only possible, it is often necessary to your organization’s survival. In the January/February issue of Healthcare Executive, we share 10 critical growth strategies that can help your healthcare organization.
• Build Career Momentum
  You face increasingly complex and competitive professional challenges every day. Build career momentum with the Early Careerist Network.
• Leader-to-Leader Program
  Visit the Leader-to-Leader Recruitment area for quick and easy tips to help you share the value of ACHE Membership with colleagues who are interested in joining ACHE or reaching the pinnacle of achievement and earning Fellow status.