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- Andrews Named “Young Healthcare Executive of the Year”
- Hayhow Award Winners Announced
- Leader-to-Leader Program Recognizes Top Participants
- Women Healthcare Executives Address: Our Evolving Workforce: Seizing Change to Advance Progress
- Thomas C. Dolan Diversity Address: Strengthening Health Equity From the Boardroom to the Community
- Gintzig Commemorative Address: A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey From the Street to the Stars
- Premier Corporate Partners
Andrews Named “Young Healthcare Executive of the Year”
Callie C. Andrews, FACHE, senior vice president, Wellstar Health System, and COO of Wellstar’s flagship facility, Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, was honored today as the recipient of the Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year.
The award honors outstanding achievement in the field of healthcare management and is given to an exceptional healthcare executive who is younger than 40, is an ACHE Fellow and holds a CEO or COO position in a healthcare organization.
In Andrews’ citation, which was read at the awards ceremony during today’s Malcolm T. MacEachern Memorial Address & Luncheon, it says she stands out because of her progressive career track and her commitment to the development of other aspiring healthcare executives, “paying it forward” like many of the leaders she considers mentors.
Andrews was noted for working to study and implement effective diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and for her acute awareness of the important role that positive female leaders have in shaping the career path of other young women.
She joined Wellstar Health System in 2016 as vice president and COO for Wellstar Cobb Hospital, Austell, Ga., and was promoted to senior vice president and hospital president before assuming her current role after achieving significant quality, safety and organizational improvements. Although she has been COO only a short time, Andrews has developed and presented a revamped three-year strategic plan, launched an interventional neurorobotics program, opened a cardiovascular hybrid OR and programmed completion for a new 150-bed, $268 million tower.
Andrews’ management of data to improve patient experience during the COVID-19 pandemic is the reason for countless testimonies of outstanding patient experiences at Wellstar Cobb Hospital. She was incident commander for a majority of the pandemic, leading daily operations and response to ensure team members were safe and could provide high-quality care for some of Georgia’s sickest patients. During her tenure at Wellstar Cobb, the hospital achieved a 38% reduction in central line-associated bloodstream infections, a 56% reduction in catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and a 14% improvement in all-cause mortality.
Andrews has been a member of ACHE since 2005. She was elected to the board of the Georgia Association of Healthcare Executives in 2015 and served as sponsorship chair from 2017 to 2018, a time during which the chapter significantly restructured its sponsorship program and increased giving by more than 400%. After leading the Sponsorship Committee, Andrews subsequently served as president-elect, president and immediate past president of GAHE. She now serves as the ACHE Regent for Georgia.
Colleagues say she is a “bright light,” both in her commitment to ACHE and the profession, and her achievements are a result of her outstanding leadership skills, personal competency, the trust she builds within her organization, and her commitment to staff, providers and patients.
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Hayhow Award Winners Announced
ACHE’s 2022 Edgar C. Hayhow Award went to Christine Pitocco, PhD; Thomas R. Sexton, PhD; and Kelly Stickle, for their article “Using Data Analytics to Improve Hospital Quality Performance,” published in the July/August 2020 issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management.
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Leader-to-Leader Program Recognizes Top Participants
The three ACHE members who recruited the greatest number of new Members and/or successfully encouraged advancement to Fellow in 2021 through the Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program are Stanley D. Augustine, FACHE, director of finance, Providence St. Joseph Health, Los Angeles; Baljeet S. Sangha, FACHE, COO/deputy director, San Francisco Health Network/San Francisco Department of Public Health; and Kenneth C. Wong, FACHE, immediate past president, ACHE of South Florida.
The Leader-to-Leader honorees will be recognized at the Tuesday Hot Topic session, “Driving Innovation for New Cybersecurity and Authentication Technology,” at 7:00 a.m. ACHE also thanks the more than 1,700 ACHE members who participated in the 2021 Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program. Their efforts on behalf of ACHE resulted in more than 1,700 individuals joining ACHE and 475 existing Members earning the FACHE credential.
In the Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program, ACHE members earn a point each time they sponsor a new Member or successfully encourage a Member to advance to Fellow. Points are redeemable for ACHE-branded items and gift certificates.Information about the 2022 Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program is available at the ACHE Member Services Booth in the exhibit area.
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Women Healthcare Executives Address: Our Evolving Workforce: Seizing Change to Advance Progress
Estes also shared experiences from her own leadership journey, from building diverse executive teams to fostering a workplace centered on excellence, equity, kindness and compassion. Key points discussed included identifying shifts the healthcare workforce experienced over the past two years and describing innovative strategies for building teams to address healthcare’s most pressing challenges.
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Thomas C. Dolan Diversity Address: Strengthening Health Equity From the Boardroom to the Community
Bolano will describe individual strategies that healthcare leaders can take to prioritize health equity throughout their leadership journey. She will also list examples of how health systems can positively impact health equity for their patients and communities.
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Gintzig Commemorative Address: A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey From the Street to the Stars
Join Hakeem M. Oluseyi, PhD, Wednesday, as he inspires attendees to chase impossible dreams, fight for what they want, refuse to listen to naysayers, and to lend a hand to those around them.
Oluseyi is the keynote speaker at the Leon I. Gintzig Commemorative Address, to be held from 12:30–2:00 p.m. Having grown up in some of the roughest neighborhoods in the country, Oluseyi spent a lot of time inside reading encyclopedias and watching PBS nature shows.
At a young age, he discovered a love of science and space that was inspired by his role model, Albert Einstein. Throughout his childhood and into young adulthood, he repeatedly faced circumstances that would make most people give up—a lack of supervision at home, attending his state’s lowest-rated school, falling in with the wrong crowd, and failing physics exams when he ultimately made his way to Stanford University. But Oluseyi never gave up.
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Premier Corporate Partners
We thank our ACHE Premier Corporate Partners.
These organizations play a vital role in supporting ACHE’s vision and mission to advance health, our members and healthcare leadership excellence.
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Ignite Stage Schedule
Join these short, high-energy, trending topic presentations in the Solutions Center. Presentation topics and schedule are available here.
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