- Monthly Membership Perk:
- Safeguarding Your Most Important Asset
- Lab Staffing Shortages Call for New Options
- Save $225 on Your FACHE® Journey
- Sit in the Driver’s Seat With Simulation Education
- Virtual Career Resource Center Advancement Workshops
- Register Today for IFDHE’s Accelerating Health Equity Conference
Monthly Membership Perk:
Safeguarding Your Most Important Asset
More than 20 months after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the U.S., the pandemic continues to take a toll on our healthcare workforce. A Kaiser Family Foundation/Washington Post poll found that about three in 10 healthcare workers considered leaving their profession, and about six in 10 said pandemic-related stress had harmed their mental health.
In recognition of the staffing crisis the healthcare field is facing, this month we are offering a free resource to help healthcare leaders retain employees. In this chapter From Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Shortage: How to Safeguard Your Organization’s Most Important Asset, Tresha D. Moreland, FACHE, and Lori Wightman explore what executives can do before employees resign in the first place. These actions can include conducting stay interviews with existing staff to measure their satisfaction and likelihood of staying with an organization, leveraging rewards and use of talent management.
We hope you enjoy this Monthly Membership Perk, and we thank you for being a part of the ACHE community.
Lab Staffing Shortages Call for New Options
Although staffing shortages didn’t begin with the COVID-19 pandemic, the health crisis revealed just how acute these shortages are, with many healthcare institutions scrambling to find qualified personnel in every department.
Clinical labs have not escaped this personnel crisis. The gap between available jobs and qualified candidates in clinical lab science has multiple causes. They include too few lab science training programs and pay incommensurate with the skills the clinical lab professional brings to the bench.
It will take time to address the causes of lab staff shortages. However, in the short term, healthcare executives facing personnel gaps in their lab operations have options. These include increasing the efficiency and value of lab testing menus and protocols, using consultation services to analyze and prioritize in-house testing, and partnerships to help with lab management operations.
No one short-term resolution is going to be the right fit for every healthcare institution, and the best solutions should be tailored to current needs and flexible enough to adjust as demand grows. With the right staffing options, the quality of care provided will improve and costs are more easily contained.
Learn more about staffing shortage issues and the full range of lab service options available to healthcare leaders in an April 28 ACHE webinar, “Addressing Workforce Shortages in Healthcare.” Jay G. Wohlgemuth, MD, senior vice president, Research and Development/CMO, Quest Diagnostics; Cecilia McKenney, senior vice president/chief human resources officer, Quest Diagnostics; and Christine Tobias, vice president, Laboratory Operations, North Region/CEO, Quest Diagnostics Venture, LLC, will present at the webinar, which is free and eligible for 1 ACHE Qualified Education credit.
Quest Diagnostics®, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner, provided the content above.
Save $225 on Your FACHE® Journey
Submit your advancement application between now and June 30 and, if approved, ACHE will waive the $225 Board of Governors Exam fee.
When you become board certified in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow, you’ll stand out from the crowd as a professional. Earning the FACHE credential demonstrates you have met rigorous standards and proven your competency in all areas of healthcare leadership. We want to thank you for your efforts, which is why when you submit your completed application between now and June 30, along with the $250 application fee and all supporting documents, ACHE will waive the $225 Board of Governors Exam fee for your approved application.
Take the next step toward elevating your professional status today, and learn about the requirements to sit for the Board of Governors Exam and resources available to help you prepare here.
Sit in the Driver’s Seat With Simulation Education
In today’s healthcare environment, leaders must be adept at navigating the changing consumer and regulatory landscapes. This spring, experience the challenges of executive leadership and strategic decision-making with the Health System Simulation program while earning up to 21 ACHE Face-to-Face Education and Interprofessional Continuing Education credits. Offered in collaboration with Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, this unique two-day learning experience emulates the full breadth and complexity of leadership in today’s competitive marketplace.
Unfamiliar with simulation education? In this episode of the Healthcare Executive Podcast, John S. Winkleman, faculty member at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, discusses the innovative new Health System Simulation course. He explains why simulation learning is particularly effective for healthcare leaders, as it allows them to see what happens when they’re in the driver’s seat. And, check out this ACHE Blog post that lists the many benefits of simulation education, such as real-time feedback and the freedom to make mistakes.
An upcoming virtual session is scheduled May 19–21, with additional sessions to be added throughout the year. Learn more and register today.
Virtual Career Resource Center Advancement Workshops
Regardless of career stage or role, learning is essential to continually improving ourselves, our organizations and our profession. To support your growth and help propel your career forward, our Career Resource Center has designed five virtual career advancement workshopsto enhance self-awareness and promote self-growth.
- The “Managing and Leading Change Workshop,” June 1, will help participants identify their top strengths and areas for development.
- During the “Managing Conflict Effectively Workshop,” Aug. 11, attendees will develop a plan of how to successfully navigate conflict in a variety of situations.
- The “Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Effectiveness Workshop,” Sept. 22, will measure attendees’ emotional intelligence quotient.
- Those who attend “Leadership Workshop: Personality, Relationships and Behaviors,” Oct. 14, will identify their leadership style.
Participants will earn 2 ACHE Qualified Education credits for completing each of the four aforementioned workshops. A customized executive leadership team workshop offering is also available. The Benchmarks® Plus Emotional Intelligence Workshop offers both the 360-degree Benchmarks® Assessment and the Emotional Intelligence Assessment, and optional coaching support is also available and customized to best meet organizations’ needs. Learn more and register today.
Register Today for IFDHE’s Accelerating Health Equity Conference
Explore solutions to long-standing healthcare disparities and inequities at the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity’s Accelerating Health Equity Conference, May 10–12. For the second consecutive year, the Accelerating Health Equity Conference is bringing together two key stakeholders—professionals focused on improving community and population health and building partnerships, and those striving to advance diversity and inclusion within hospital management and executive levels. This gathering offers attendees a chance to connect and collaborate to advance community health, well-being and equity.
The conference, to be held in Cleveland, is being presented by IFDHE—co-founded by ACHE and sponsored by the American Hospital Association and an ACHE diversity partner organization—and the AHA Community Health Improvement network, an affiliate of AHA. View the agenda here, and register today.