At A Glance

General Information

This section will provide you with information about the eligibility to submit a proposal; the relevant topics ACHE would like the proposal to address and grant funding information to support the development of the two-day program.

Eligibility to Submit a Proposal:

Proposals for the 2020 Healthcare Management Education Development Grant must be submitted through the online submission tool on or before Feb. 24 2020.  Proposals must be complete and meet all requirements in order to be considered.  ACHE seeks proposals from subject matter experts who have knowledge about and experience in healthcare management and can instruct professionals in senior-level and C-suite-level positions. We prefer the lead faculty member of the program be an ACHE member (ACHE Fellow designation strongly desired), and at least one of the faculty members be a healthcare executive practitioner. We also encourage demographic diversity amongst faculty applicants. No more than two faculty can teach a seminar. Proposals for the 2020 Healthcare Management Education Development Grant is limited to the relevant topics noted below. However, you may submit a proposal for more than one topic. 

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Relevant Topics:

ACHE has identified two key topic areas that address a gap in current offerings for C-suite healthcare executives who work in a variety of healthcare settings. 

Successful Team Leadership

Proposals should address strategies for healthcare leaders to build and guide an interprofessional team for all healthcare settings including freestanding hospitals, federal healthcare systems, ambulatory care facilities/group practices, corporate headquarters of a health system, managed care providers, post-acute care/chronic care organizations, education/research institutes or other health-related industries (supplier, pharmaceutical or equipment manufacturer). The proposal should include care models and case examples that demonstrate how to engage and improve performance of a team and resulted in a measurable improvement in patient care and a return on investment. 

Content may include:

• Building a diverse and inclusive team
• Managing organizational changes that impact a team
• Developing relationships between clinical and nonclinical teams
• Managing performance
• Facilitating Interprofessional communication
• Aligning, building and owning a shared vision
• Coaching, mentoring and training team members
• Making succession plans

Service Line Management

Proposals should address key approaches to creating and managing a service line, including effective strategies behind governance, operations management, patient outcomes and financial performance. Proposals should describe successful models, management structures and assessment tools that healthcare leaders can use to implement a new service line or improve an existing service line for their organization.  Preference will be given to proposals that include a faculty member who is a current healthcare practitioner or service line leader. 

Content may include:

• Risk assessment and forecasting patient outcome/access
• Roles and responsibilities of physicians and key leaders
• Critical success factors for a new or current service line
• Approaches to grow and strengthen a service line
• Tips for aligning the service line to organizational strategy
• Key indicators to measure performance, and assure growth and enhanced quality

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Grant Funding Information:

The grant will provide funding up to $4,000 for the development associated with a two-day, face-to-face continuing education seminar. Funds may be used to conduct research, gather data about the topic, obtain learning modalities/tools and design educational resources to use for the two-day seminar. A development budget is a requirement of the proposal submission. Expense documentation will be required if the proposal is selected.

Proposal Submission Requirements

In the proposal submission tool, you will need to provide the following information:

• Faculty name(s). Provide the full name of the faculty member(s) who will be teaching the program.
• Faculty credentials and biography. Describe the professional credentials and include biographical information for each faculty member teaching the program. Resumes may be submitted as biographical information.
• Teaching experience or faculty appointments. Provide a list of the topics taught, dates, group or organization to which the course was presented, contact name and email address of the organization that sponsored the program.
• Title of the program. The title should be succinct yet compelling to the learner and reflect the overall content of the program.
• Target audience for the program. Identify the individual(s) that will most benefit from the program.
• Work setting. Identify relevant healthcare settings that will benefit from the program.
• Learning gaps. Identify deficits in knowledge, competence/skill/strategy, or performance that the program will address, and an explanation of what is missing in the professional practice.
• Educational needs and outcomes. Discuss how the content will close gaps in knowledge, competence/skill/strategy, or performance and explain what the short and long-term results will be from attending the program.
• Description of the program. The description should be timely, relevant and provide details about the content areas. It should be applicable to a C-suite audience and a variety of healthcare provider settings as well, given the interprofessional nature of our field. Content should be created for two or more members of a healthcare team. It should be noncommercial in nature and should not promote a product or service.
• Learning objectives. Provide actionable statements associated with knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
• Teaching methods. Describe the educational strategies, design and modalities that will be used to engage learners.
• Desirable attributes the program will address. Identify the tools or new skills, behaviors and/or actions that participants will obtain from attending the program.
• Timed agenda for the program (document attachment). Provide information about each topic and timeframe in which it will be covered. The timed agenda should include six hours of learning each day. Both days should start at 7 a.m. and conclude at 1:30 p.m.Ten-minute breaks should be included in the morning and afternoon. A working lunch should be scheduled at approximately 11:15 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. We encourage interactive elements in the course (i.e. discussion opportunities, case studies, role-play, and reflection). An example of an agenda is provided in the online submission tool.
• Developmental budget (document attachment). Describe how the grant funds will be used and allocated. It should show itemized line items and the timeline associated with meeting the itemized budget items.
• Letters of recommendation (document attachments). Letters should address content knowledge, teaching experience and professionalism of each subject matter expert that will be teaching the program.

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Review and Selection Process

Complete proposals must be submitted through the online submission tool by Feb. 24, 2020, 11:59 p.m. Central time. Proposals that are incomplete or do not address all the stated requirements will not be considered for further review. Complete proposals will be vetted by a review committee. All submitters of complete proposals will be notified of the development grant status by May 14, 2020. Proposals that are selected to receive grant funding will be invited to ACHE’s office in Chicago to conduct the two-day program for ACHE Members and Fellows through the development test process. Based on feedback from the development test, ACHE will decide if the program will be offered at future ACHE clusters. Faculty for the program will go through the ACHE contracting and onboarding process to become part of the ACHE faculty.

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If you have any questions or need more assistance, please contact Kathy Stack, FACHE, Manager, Professional Development, at kstack@ache.org or (312) 424-9304.

^{*Please note this submission site is NOT for Congress presentations. The Congress proposal site will open at the end of March 2020.} 

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