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A new, exclusive resource for healthcare consultants dedicated to advancing their expertise and skills.
To stay ahead of the curve as a healthcare consultant, you strive to understand the healthcare leadership challenges your clients face—improving quality, reducing costs, enhancing patient safety, effectively leading change management and adapting to the implications of healthcare reform—in order to provide expert advice and recommendations. ACHE’s new Healthcare Consultants Forum offers a package of resources to meet the unique needs of healthcare consultants. Click here for more on the benefits of the Healthcare Consultants Forum.
Resources for Healthcare Consultants
Educational Programs
Seminars
Self-Study Program
HAP Books
- 10 More Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care
- 10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care
- ACHE Board of Governors Exam Study Set
- Achieving Safe and Reliable Healthcare: Strategies and Solutions
- Achieving Success Through Community Leadership
- Best Practice Financial Management: Six Key Concepts for Healthcare Leaders, Third Edition
- Better Communication for Better Care: Mastering Physician-Administrator Collaboration
- The CEO-CIO Partnership: Harnessing the Value of Information Technology in Healthcare
- Collaborate for Success! Breakthrough Strategies for Engaging Physicians, Nurses, and Hospital Executives
- Consumer-Directed Healthcare and Its Implications for Providers
- Crisis Communications in Healthcare: Managing Difficult Times Effectively
- Decision Making for Improved Performance
- Dunn and Haimann's Healthcare Management, Ninth Edition
- Employment Contracts for Healthcare Executives: Rationale, Trends, and Samples, Fifth Edition
- Evaluating the Performance of the Hospital CEO, Third Edition
- Exceptional Leadership: 16 Critical Competencies for Healthcare Executives
- The Executive's Guide to Electronic Health Records
- Financial Strategy for Managed Care Organizations: Rate Setting, Risk Adjustment, and Competitive Advantage
- Fundamentals of Healthcare Finance, Second Edition
- Fundamentals of Physician Practice Management
- Futurescan 2010 Healthcare Trends and Implications 2010-2015
- Going Lean: Busting Barriers to Patient Flow
- Gold Standard Management: The Key to High-Performance Hospitals
- Health Services Management Cases, Readings, and Commentary, Tenth Edition
- The Healthcare Executive’s Guide to Allocating Capital
- Healthcare Facility Planning: Thinking Strategically
- Healthcare Governance: A Guide for Effective Boards, Second Edition
- The Healthcare Leader Library Collection
- Healthcare Operations Management, Second Edition
- The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools, Second Edition
- Healthcare Strategic Planning, Third 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
- Leadership for Great Customer Service: Satisfied Patients, Satisfied Employees
- Leading Others, Managing Yourself
- Leading Transformational Change: The Physician-Executive Partnership
- Leading Your Healthcare Organization Through a Merger or Acquisition
- Leading Your Healthcare Organization to Excellence: A Guide to Using the Baldrige Criteria
- Lean Done Right: Achieve and Maintain Reform in Your Healthcare Organization
- Make It Happen: Effective Execution in Healthcare Leadership
- Managing Long-Term Care
- Managing Word of Mouth for Leadership Success: Connecting Healthcare Strategy and Reputation
- Marketing Matters: A Guide for Healthcare Executives
- Mastering the Negotiation Process: A Practical Guide for the Healthcare Executive
- 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
- Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes, Fourth Edition
- Risk Management and the Emergency Department: Executive Leadership for Protecting Patients and Hospitals
- Rx for the Nursing Shortage: A Guidebook
- 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 Trust Prescription for Healthcare: Building Your Reputation With Consumers
- 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, Second Edition
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
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
Current Marketing Practices in the Nursing Home Sector
Judith G. Calhoun, Jane Banaszak-Holl, and Larry R. Hearld
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
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
Changes in Service Availability in California Hospitals, 1995 to 2002
Paul K. Kirby, Joanne Spetz, Lisa Maiuro, and Richard M. Scheffler
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
"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
