2025 Nashville Cluster

Workforce challenges remain one of the key issues confronting hospitals, according to the American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual survey. Amongst this group is a critical shortage of healthcare techs. These professionals are behind the scenes at every hospital and include laboratory techs, radiologic techs, surgical techs, phlebotomists, ER techs and many others. They make up an essential core team for running your hospital where strategies are necessary to retain and engage top talent.

This session will provide background on the shortage of healthcare technicians and why it has become important now more than ever to retain good employees in these professions; discuss current strategies that can be applied in the healthcare industry to attract and recruit future laboratory professionals; and present learnings in keeping healthcare techs engaged at a hospital level.

Seminar Objectives:

• Identify the critical shortage of healthcare technicians in the US and the reasons behind it
• Learn successful strategies executive leaders can implement to engage and retain top talent among healthcare technicians
• Explore ways executive leaders can retain talent

Who Should Attend:

All healthcare leaders

Faculty:

Doug Hamilton, Vice President of Laboratory Operations for the Great Midwest Region at Quest Diagnostics

Thank You, Quest Diagnostics

This cluster is made possible in part by Quest Diagnostics, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner. We would like to thank Quest Diagnostics for its commitment to ACHE and helping us advance healthcare management excellence.

Learn more and access additional resources from Quest Diagnostics.