CEO Circle

As the CEO of your organization you have demonstrated your ability to handle the changes of the constantly evolving healthcare marketplace. But your leadership skills will continue to be tested. To help you in your endeavors, ACHE offers the CEO Circle, a comprehensive package of resources to meet the unique needs of chief executives. Click here for more on the benefits of the CEO Circle.

Share Your Commitment

Cultivate your commitment and enthusiasm in others by encouraging your management team to join ACHE. We have the resources to help them perform at their professional best. Foster a culture of healthcare leaders who care as much as you do by recommending your colleagues become a part of ACHE.

Leader-to-Leader Program

As part of the Leader-to-Leader Program, when you help grow ACHE by recruiting new Members or encouraging existing Members to become Fellows, you earn points that you can redeem for rewards, including ACHE gift certificates and logo items. You can redeem your points anytime, even with just 1 point! Or you can save your points and redeem them later for more rewards. CEOs have the option of redeeming 2 points for a one-year CEO Circle membership*, a $275 value. Of course, CEOs can still choose from the other Leader-to-Leader rewards.

*Note : Members may only redeem their points for CEO Circle one time. CEO Circle Membership redemption applies to current year only (i.e. if you redeem your points for CEO Circle in June, your membership will end December 31 of that year).

Educational Programs

Seminars

• Achieving a Strategic Partnership With Your Board: Thrive in the Midst of Accountability
• Achieving On-Time, On-Budget Projects
• Achieving Results From Growth Strategies: From Ideas to Implementation
• Advanced Strategic Planning to Transform Your Organization
• Aggressively Improve Cost, Quality and Throughput
• Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Most Effective Use of Legal Services
• Are Medical Groups in Your Portfolio? Critical Factors to Manage Your Investment
• The Art of Building Relationships for Successful Teams and Partnerships
• Beyond the Silver Bullet: Ensuring Patient and Employee Satisfaction
• Coach, Challenge, Lead: Developing an Indispensable Management Team
• Comprehensive Leadership for Senior-Level Executives
• Creating and Leading Error-Free Management Systems
• Critical Financial Skills for Hospital Success
• Developing Proactive Physician Alignment and Employment Practices
• Effective Approaches in Leading Patient Safety and Error Reduction
• Emerging Trends in Healthcare: New Leadership for Real Challenges
• Enhancing Your Ability to Think Strategically: The Skill That Differentiates the Best Leaders
• Ensuring Success of New Members of Your Management Team
• Four Key Marketing Strategies to Increase Revenue
• Hospital of the Future: Strategies for Disruptive Change
• Improving the Patient Experience to Build Customer Loyalty
• Integration vs. Competition: The Future of Hospital-Physician Relations
• Leadership Persuasion Skills: Getting the Results You Want
• Managing Change: Thriving in the 21st Century
• Managing Conflict, Confrontations and Disputes
• Managing Healthcare Facility Design and Construction Programs
• Managing Stress: The Key to Enhancing Productivity and Retention
• Moving Beyond Financial Survival: Redefining Your Revenue Cycle to Achieve Superior Results
• Practical Strategies for Engaging Physicians
• Process and Technique of Negotiating
• Secrets of Great Healthcare Organizations in Leading Change
• Service Line Management: Creating a Strategy That Fits Your Organization
• Strategic Planning: From Formulation to Action
• Understanding and Influencing Physician Behavior: The Strategic Imperative
• Using Metrics as a Road Map to Hospital Success

Special Programs

• CEO Circle Forum

Self-Study Program

• Creating a Leadership Development Program in Your Healthcare Organization course
• Excellent Care course
• Finding and Keeping Talent at the Executive Level course
• Followership: Increasing Trust, Respect, and Pride course
• Healthcare Strategic Planning course
• How to Improve Your Competitive Strategy course
• The Impact of Consumer-Directed Healthcare on Organizational Strategy course
• The Impact of Internet Managed Care Products course
• Leading With Meaning: Tapping the Deeper Dimensions course
• Learning to Lead course
• Managed Care Contract Terms course
• Managing Reputation: Strategy and Branding by Word of Mouth course
• Medication Safety and Cost Recovery course
• Strategies for Improving Community Health course
• Thinking Forward: Applying CHIs Model for Success course
• Understanding and Influencing Physician Behavior course

HAP Books

• 10 More Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care
• 10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care
• 10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care, Book 3
• 10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care, Book 4
• ACHE Board of Governors Exam Study Set
• Achieving Safe and Reliable Healthcare: Strategies and Solutions
• Achieving Service Excellence Strategies for Healthcare, Second Edition
• Achieving Service Excellence: Strategies for Healthcare
• Achieving Success Through Community Leadership
• Allies or Adversaries: Revitalizing the Medical Staff Organization
• Austin and Boxerman's Information Systems for Healthcare Management, Seventh Edition
• Best Practice Financial Management: Six Key Concepts for Healthcare Leaders, Third Edition
• Better Communication for Better Care: Mastering Physician-Administrator Collaboration
• Beyond the Gift Shop: Boost Revenue, Your Brand, and Patient Satisfaction with Strategic Healthcare Retail
• Beyond Persuasion: The Healthcare Manager's Guide to Strategic Communication
• The CEO-CIO Partnership: Harnessing the Value of Information Technology in Healthcare
• Consumer-Directed Healthcare and Its Implications for Providers
• Contracting in a Managed Care Environment: Market-Based Approaches
• Creating Sustainable Physician-Hospital Strategies
• Crisis Communications in Healthcare: Managing Difficult Times Effectively
• Decision Analysis for Healthcare Managers
• Decision Making for Improved Performance
• Employee Retention: Solving the Healthcare Crisis
• The Essential Guide to Managing Consultants: Strategies for Healthcare Leaders
• Evaluating the Healthcare System: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity, Third Edition
• Evaluating the Performance of the Hospital CEO, Third Edition
• Executive Compensation: Guidelines for Healthcare Leaders and Trustees
• The Executive's Guide to Electronic Health Records
• Financial Strategy for Managed Care Organizations: Rate Setting, Risk Adjustment, and Competitive Advantage
• Followership: A Practical Guide to Aligning Leaders and Followers
• Futurescan 2010 Healthcare Trends and Implications 2010-2015
• Going Lean: Busting Barriers to Patient Flow
• Gold Standard Management: The Key to High-Performance Hospitals
• The Governance Factor: 33 Keys to Success in Healthcare
• Growing Leaders in Healthcare: Lessons from the Corporate World
• Haimann's Healthcare Management, Eighth Edition
• The Healthcare C-Suite: Leadership Development at the Top
• The Healthcare Executive’s Guide to Allocating Capital
• The Healthcare Leader Library Collection
• Healthcare Operations Management
• The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools, Second Edition
• Healthcare Strategic Planning, Second Edition
• Hospitalists: A Guide to Building and Sustaining a Successful Program
• Improve Your Competitive Strategy: A Guide for the Healthcare Executive
• Improving Healthcare with Better Building Design
• Launching a Healthcare Capital Project
• The Law and the Public's Health, Seventh Edition
• Leadership for Great Customer Service: Satisfied Patients, Satisfied Employees
• Leadership for Smooth Patient Flow: Improved Outcomes, Improved Service, Improved Bottom Line
• Leadership in Healthcare: Values at the Top
• Leadership's Deeper Dimensions: Building Blocks to Superior Performance
• Leading a Patient-Safe Organization
• Leading Healthcare Cultures: How Human Capital Drives Financial Performance
• Leading Others, Managing Yourself
• Leading Transformational Change: The Physician-Executive Partnership
• Leading Your Healthcare Organization to Excellence: A Guide to Using the Baldrige Criteria
• Management Mistakes in Healthcare: Identification, Correction, and Prevention
• Managing Ethically: An Executive's Guide
• Managing Stress and Preventing Burnout in the Healthcare Workplace
• Managing Word of Mouth for Leadership Success: Connecting Healthcare Strategy and Reputation
• Marketing Health Services
• Marketing Matters: A Guide for Healthcare Executives
• Mastering the Negotiation Process: A Practical Guide for the Healthcare Executive
• Medication Safety and Cost Recovery: A Four-Step Approach for Executives
• Next Generation Physician-Health System Partnerships
• Optimize Your Healthcare Supply Chain Performance: A Strategic Approach
• Partnership of Equals: Practical Strategies for Healthcare CEOs and Their Boards
• Patient Satisfaction: Understanding and Managing the Experience of Care, Second Edition
• The Power of Clinical and Financial Metrics: Achieving Success in Your Hospital
• Practical Governance
• The Primary Care-Market Share Connection: How Hospitals Achieve Competitive Advantage
• Reinventing the Patient Experience: Strategies for Hospital Leaders
• Rekindling the Flame: Achieving Success Through Community Leadership Discussion Video
• Rx for the Nursing Shortage: A Guidebook
• Seven Strategies to Improve Your Bottom Line: The Healthcare Executive's Guide
• The Six Sigma Book for Healthcare: Improving Outcomes by Reducing Errors
• Strategic Cost Reduction: Leading Your Hospital to Success
• Terrorism and Disaster Management: Preparing Healthcare Leaders for the New Reality
• Thinking Forward: Six Strategies for Highly Successful Organizations
• The Toyota Way to Healthcare Excellence: Increase Efficiency and Improve Quality with Lean
• The Tracks We Leave: Ethics in Healthcare Management
• The Trust Prescription for Healthcare: Building Your Reputation With Consumers
• Tyler's Guide: The Healthcare Executive's Job Search, Third Edition
• What Top-Performing Healthcare Organizations Know: 7 Proven Steps for Accelerating and Achieving Change
• Winning the Talent War: Ensuring Effective Leadership in Healthcare
• World Health Systems: Challenges and Perspectives

ACHE Periodicals

"Are Hospitals Disaster-Ready? Lessons from Katrina One Year Later"
Feature articles by Jack O. Bovender Jr., FACHE and Bill Carey; and Havidán Rodríguez, Ph.D., and Benigno E. Aguirre, Ph.D.

INTERVIEW with Danny L. Jones Jr., FACHE, chief executive officer, Independence Regional Health Center and the Medical Center of Independence
Kyle L. Grazier
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:6

PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: Unintended Consequences: Getting the Most While Avoiding the Worst
Kaveh Safavi
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:6

COMPETENCIES: Leadership
Andrew N. Garman, Peter Butler, and Lauren Brinkmeyer
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:6

Return on Investment in Pay for Performance: A Diabetes Case Study
Kathleen Curtin, Howard Beckman, George Pankow, Yuliya Milillo, and Robert A. Greene
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:6

Hospital Governing Boards: A Study of Their Effectiveness in Relation to Organizational Performance
Kathryn J. McDonagh
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:6

Is Anybody Managing the Store? National Trends in Hospital Performance
John R. Griffith, Jeffrey A. Alexander, and David A. Foster
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:6

FELLOW PROJECT : Establishing and Sustaining Healthcare Operations in a Contingency: A Logistical Perspective
Lt. Col. Paul Martin
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:6

Implementation of the EPIC Electronic Medical Record/Physician Order-Entry System
Mary S.O Brien
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:5

The Roles of Senior Management in Improving Hospital Experiences for Frail Older Adults
Elizabeth H. Bradley, Tashonna R. Webster, Mark Schlesinger, Dorothy Baker, and Sharon K. Inouye
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:5

Task Overlap Among Primary Care Team Members: An Opportunity for System Redesign?
Richard G. Best, Sylvia J. Hysong, Jacqueline A. Pugh, Suvro Ghosh, and Frank I. Moore
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:5

COMPETENCIES: Communication and Relationship Management
Andrew N. Garman, Kristine D. Fitz, and Maria M. Fraser
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:5

PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: The Measurement Conundrum
Kaveh Safavi
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:5

INTERVIEW with Tony Kovner, Ph.D., professor, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
Kyle L. Grazier
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:5

Response of a Community Hospital in West Virginia to the Medical Malpractice Crisis
Daniel J. Lauffer
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:4

Nonclinical Outcomes of Hospital-Based Palliative Care
Kenneth R. White, Kristie G. Stover, J. Brian Cassel, and Thomas J. Smith
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:4

Performance Metrics for Advanced Access
Diwakar Gupta, Sandra Potthoff, Donald Blowers, and John Corlett
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:4

The Aging Nursing Workforce: How to Retain Experienced Nurses
Jeremye D. Cohen
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:4

The Importance of Middle Managers in Healthcare Organizations
Mari K. Embertson
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:4

COMPETENCIES: Professionalism
Andrew N. Garman, Rupert Evans, Mary Katherine Krause, Janis Anfossi
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:4

PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: Patient-Centered Pay for Performance: Are We Missing the Target?
Kaveh Safavi
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:4

INTERVIEW with Larry Sanders, chairman and chief executive officer, Columbus Regional Healthcare System
Kyle L. Grazier
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:4

Interview with Richard D. Cordova, CHE, president and chief executive officer, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Kyle L. Grazier
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:3

PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: Aligning Financial Incentives
Kaveh Safavi
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:3

COMPETENCIES: Knowledge of the Healthcare Environment
Andrew N. Garman and Lac Tran
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:3

The Performance of Medicare, Medicaid, and Individual Commercial Products
Diane M. Howard, Kevin Croke, Edward Mensah, and Ross Mullner
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:3

Healthcare CEOs and Physicians: Reaching Common Ground
J. Deane Waldman, Howard L. Smith, and Jacqueline N. Hood
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:3

FELLOW PROJECT: Developing a Strategic Contracting Strategy in an Integrated Delivery System
R. Lyle Luman
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:3

Interview with Richard J. Umbdenstock, CHE, executive vice president, Providence Health & Services
Kyle L. Grazier
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:2

Pay for Performance: Paying for Efficiency
Kaveh Safavi
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:2

Leadership Competencies: Business Knowledge and Skills
Andrew N. Garman, Theresa Burkhart, and Jeremy Strong
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:2

Do Not Go Gentle: Intractable Value Differences in Hospices
Briam M. Harmer
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:2

The Nursing Shortage: Is it Really About Image?
Jean Anne Seago, Joanne Spetz, Andrew Alvarado, Dennis Keane, and Kevin Grumbach
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:2

Community Orientation, Strategic Flexibility, and Financial Performance in Hospitals
Gregory O. Ginn and Ruby P. Lee
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:2

Exploring Strategies for Reducing Hospital Errors
Kathleen L. McFadden, Gregory N. Stock, and Charles R. Gowen III
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:2

Fellow Project: Improving OB/GYN Physician Coverage Through a Redesigned Call System
Ann Holt
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:2

Interview with Teri G. Fontenot, CHE, president and CEO, Women's Hospital
Kyle L. Grazier
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:1

Pay for Performance: Finding Common Ground
Kaveh Safavi
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:1

Leadership Competencies: An Introduction
Andrew N. Garman and Matthew P. Johnson
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:1

Perspective: Opportunities for Improving Patient Care Through Lateral Integration: The Clinical Nurse Leader
James W. Begun, Jolene Tornabeni, and Kenneth R. White
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:1

Hospital Information Technology and Positive Financial Performance: A Different Approach to Finding an ROI
Nir Menachemi, Jeffrey Burkhardt, Richard Schewchuk, Darrell Burke, and Robert G. Brooks
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:1

Fellow Project: Board Self-Evaluation Process
Norman J. Andrews
Journal of Healthcare Management 51:1

“Advancing Strategic Planning in Healthcare”
Feature articles by Alan M. Zuckerman, FACHE, FAAHC; and Donna K. Sollenberger
Commentaries by Peter M. Ginter, Ph.D. and Linda E. Swayne, Ph.D.; Kathryn Alexander; and Mark Parrington, CHE
Frontiers of Health Services Management 23:2

"Not-for-Profit Hospitals: Balancing Business and Benefit"
Feature articles by Vernon E. Weckwerth, Ph.D. and Bryant H. Krenek, Jr., CHE
Commentaries by James N. Valenti, Donald C. Wegmiller, and Michael A. Morrisey
Frontiers of Health Services Management 22:4

"The Promise of Evidence-Based Management: From Guesswork to Best Work"
Feature article by Anthony R. Kovner and Thomas G. Rundall
Commentaries by Stephen M. Shortell, David J. Fine, and Joseph F. Damore
Frontiers of Health Services Management 22:3

"The Electronic Health Record: Overcoming Obstacles, Maximizing Opportunities"
Feature articles by Michael A. Sachs and Rosemarie Nelson
Commentaries by Peter Basch, Thomas East, and Blackford Middleton
Frontiers of Health Services Management 22:2

“Leading Healthcare to Safety”
Feature articles by James Bagian; and Steven Winokur and Kay Beauregard
Commentaries by John Ferguson and Robert Fakelmann; Julie J. Mohr; and James B. Conway
Frontiers of Health Services Management 22:1

Critical Conditions: Providing Healthcare to America's Uninsured"
Feature Articles by Emily Friedman and Deborah Chollet, Ph.D.
Commentaries by Kevin E. Lofton, FACHE, Phillip Robinson, FACHE, and Rick Curtis
Frontiers of Health Services Management 21:4

Old Board/New Board: "Governance in an Era of Accountability"
Feature articles by James E. Orlikoff and E. George Middleton, Jr.
Commentaries by Dennis R. Barry; Kathryn J. McDonagh, FACHE, and J. Larry Tyler, FACHE, and Errol L. Biggs, Ph.D., FACHE
Frontiers of Health Services Management, 21:3, 2005

"Can Better Buildings Improve Care and Increase Your Financial Returns?"
Feature articles by Leonard L. Berry, Derek Parker; Russell C. Coile, Jr.; D, Kirk Hamilton; David D. O'Neill; and Blair L. Sadler; Commentaries by Peter L. Bardwell, James E. Hosking, and John Reiling
Frontiers of Health Services Management, 21:1, 2004

"Finding Funds: Accessing Capital and Spending It Wisely"
Feature articles by Allan Fine and J. Alex Bacchetti; Donald A. Carlson, Jr.; Commentaries by Kenneth Kaufman; Ray B. Lefton; and J. B. Silvers, Ph.D.
Frontiers of Health Services Management, 21:2, 2004

"Capacity Management: Breakthrough Strategies for Improving Patient Flow"
Lead articles by Carol Haraden and Rojer Resar; Suzanne S. Horton; and Diana Henderson, Christy Dempsey, and Debra Appleby. Commentary by Richard S. Zimmerman; Matthew Lambert, III; and Leo P. Brideau
Frontiers of Health Services Management, 20:4, 2004

"Quality: Shaping Culture, Taking Action"
Lead articles by Sr. Mary Jean Ryan, FSM; and Glen A. Barton. Commentary by Margaret E. O'Kane; Vinod K. Sahney, Ph.D.; and Sandra Potthoff, Ph.D.
Frontiers of Health Services Management, 20:3, 2004

"Rethinking Community Benefit Reporting: A Strategic View to a Stronger Commitment"
Healthcare Executive 24:3, 2009

"Ethics and Leadership"
Healthcare Executive 24:3, 2009

"Are You Ready for Greater Transparency and Accountability?"
Healthcare Executive 24:3, 2009