How RCM Automation Empowers Community Hospitals
Community hospital leaders are driven by a singular mission: ensuring their organizations deliver exceptional care to the patients and communities who depend on them. But while their hearts are in the right place, the reality is that mounting administrative burdens and financial pressures often overshadow their ability to focus on what matters most.
- Collaborative Leadership Enables Success
- Virtual Education Tailored to You
- Addressing Healthcare Management Challenges Through Innovation
- Future of CMS Outlined
Collaborative Leadership Enables Success
Encouraging dialogue across the continuum of care creates a platform for progress. As the Ohio Hospital Association embarked on a journey to reduce sepsis mortality, it was clear that success would require engaging a village of stakeholders. Leadership endorsement, presence and commitment formed a strong foundation for the initiative, with each of the OHA’s 250 member hospitals and 15 health systems implementing at least one leadership tactic and one operational tactic to support targeted sepsis mortality reduction efforts.
The statewide collaboration has achieved both rapid and long-term improvements, and transparency has been an important driver of these improved outcomes. Executives placed a strong emphasis on a learning culture, disseminating effective practices through site visits, active listening and toolkit development, and evidence-based continuing education programs. Sepsis physician champions, coordinators, quality improvement experts and front-line staff also considered handoff issues between long-term and acute care, developing a structured process for decreasing interruptions in time-sensitive care.
Read more about how thoughtful leadership resulted in the passion to reduce sepsis mortality in “Achieving and Sustaining Clinical Improvement” in the March/April edition of Healthcare Executive.
Virtual Education Tailored to You
Discover 15 actionable steps to foster and improve professional relationships or learn to manage conflict with collaborative problem-solving techniques by simply going online and accessing one of ACHE’s many virtual education programs.
Starting May 12, “Be the Best Part of Their Day: Supercharging Communication With Values-Driven Leadership” will cover the three key components of executive engagement and help participants to develop a personal leadership values statement to guide decision-making and action. Presented by David L. Schreiner, PhD, FACHE, president of his own consulting firm, this course provides actionable steps to improve professional relationships. Participants who complete the course are eligible for 3 ACHE Virtual Interactive Education credits.
Another course, “Transforming Collective Conflict to Collaborative Problem Solving,” focuses on addressing the nature of conflict and teaches how applying elements of conflict mitigation can optimize conditions for problem solving. Presented by Frederick “Rick” vanPelt, MD, chief clinical transformation officer, UAB Hospital, Birmingham, Ala., the seminar begins May 23. Participants who complete the course are eligible for 6 ACHE Virtual Interactive Education credits.
Visit Virtual Interactive Education to learn more about these and other online programs offered by ACHE.
Addressing Healthcare Management Challenges Through Innovation
The Management Innovations Poster Session at this year’s Congress on Healthcare Leadership showcased solutions to crucial healthcare issues such as care coordination, efficiency, technology and more. Visit 2025 Management Innovations Poster Session to explore the posters that healthcare leaders shared at this year’s event.
Future of CMS Outlined
Mehmet Oz, MD, recently confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has outlined his new agenda. “We aim to mark our Make America Healthy Again efforts with curiosity, courage, competence and compassion,” said Oz. He went on to say that under his leadership, CMS will work to modernize Medicare, the Marketplaces and Medicaid, so Americans get the care that they want, need and deserve.
His efforts include equipping healthcare providers with better information about the patients they serve and holding them accountable for health outcomes. The new administration also aims to identify and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse. The focus appears to be on fostering prevention, wellness and better chronic disease management.
Read the press release at CMS Newsroom.