- Program Spotlight:
2023 Virtual Leadership Symposium: Insights to Help You Lead - Leveraging Digital Tools to Boost Preventive Care Patient Engagement
- Run for Regent
- Sparking High Performance in Yourself and Your Team
- Share the Value of Membership With Your Colleagues
- Being Authentic at Work Means Honoring Who I Am
Program Spotlight:
2023 Virtual Leadership Symposium: Insights to Help You Lead
The challenges today’s healthcare leaders face are manifold; addressing workforce issues, driving quality and performance, and navigating the current regulatory landscape are just a few. Tuesday, May 9, through Wednesday, May 10, take a break from your hectic agenda to gain meaningful insights and updates on trends, solutions and issues in healthcare at the 2023 Virtual Leadership Symposium.
During this 1.5-day event, busy healthcare leaders like you can learn from and engage with more than 30 influential voices in healthcare as they address the most pressing issues facing our field today. You’ll gain practical solutions and strategies to improve the health of your community, workforce and organization while earning up to 6 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits. The following sessions offer a glimpse of the breadth of topics covered:
Tuesday, May 9
Join Bonnie J. Clipper, DNP, RN, FACHE, founder/CEO, Innovation Advantage; Stacey Chang, design adviser, Harbor Health; and AJ Herrmann, executive director, Strategic Workforce Planning, Cleveland Clinic, as they discuss how hospitals and health systems are meeting the changing needs of patients and staff during “Hot Topic: Redesigning the Healthcare Workforce.”
As antitrust cases in the healthcare space become more prevalent, there are lessons to be learned from Sidibe v. Sutter Health, which comprises two major class action antitrust lawsuits filed against Sutter Health. Florence L. Di Benedetto, JD, senior vice president/general counsel for Sutter Health, will share candid insights into what happened, lessons learned and why Sutter Health decided to settle one case but try the second during “Leadership Insights: Sidibe v. Sutter Health—Lessons Learned From the Largest Antitrust Healthcare Case Taken to Trial in the U.S.” Participants will learn about specific risks associated with these types of cases and the impact they can have on healthcare organizations.
Wednesday, May 10
Lisa Goldstein, senior vice president at Kaufman Hall, will assess the decline in hospital financial performance, along with the challenges facing every component of the business model, during “Hot Topic: Perspectives From the Capital Market (or What I Can Tell You Now).”
Learn more about the 2023 Virtual Leadership Symposium and register today to take advantage of the early bird rate, available until May 1.
Leveraging Digital Tools to Boost Preventive Care Patient Engagement
With research showing that the COVID-19 pandemic normalized the use of digital technology to facilitate patient-physician interactions, an outreach program piloted at Central Ohio Primary Care used text messaging to encourage and monitor patients in completing colorectal cancer screening.
Through the program, coordinated by physician leader Matthew Skomorowski, MD, patients who received a screening test to complete at home received up to three personalized text messages from their physician. The messages included a reminder of why colorectal cancer screening is important and prompted patients who had not completed the test to detail why. The responses allowed physicians to understand the barriers patients encountered to completing the screening, including losing the test or forgetting to complete it. In an interview, Skomorowski stated that to date, “The pilot has led to a 10% increase in completed screenings.”
Patients recall less than 50% of what was discussed with their doctor during an office visit, but outreach focused on physician and patient engagement may help mitigate that disconnect, according to research published in 2018 in the journal PLoS One. Furthermore, in value-based care, disease prevention and enhanced patient engagement contribute to lowering societal healthcare costs and improved patient care, according to study findings published in 2019 in the journal Academic Medicine. Central Ohio Primary Care’s text-messaging pilot program demonstrates the importance of maintaining patient interaction even after the point-of-care appointment has ended. Using minimal resources, bidirectional text messaging offers an unobtrusive method for physicians and patients to engage with one another and may help physicians succeed in the ongoing transition to value-based care. To learn more about digital technology that can increase patient engagement in preventive care, visit ache.org/about-ache/corporate-partners/sites/exact-sciences.
Exact Sciences, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner, provided the content above.
Run for Regent
ACHE is beginning the election process for new Regents to serve on its Council of Regents, the legislative body that represents ACHE’s members. Serving as an elected official is a unique opportunity that allows you to exercise your leadership ability, share innovative ideas and support the mission of ACHE. The term begins March 2024 and ends March 2027.
To be an eligible Regent candidate, you must work and live in the Regent area you would represent and be an ACHE Fellow. Please review the position description before applying. For more information on how to declare your candidacy, contact Jennifer L. Connelly, FACHE, CAE, vice president, Volunteer Relations, at jconnelly@ache.org.
Sparking High Performance in Yourself and Your Team
“Culture rules, and leaders play a huge role in creating, maintaining, and supporting it. Even when we know that culture is important, we still might question how to influence it. My best advice? Just start.” This is how author Jo Anne Preston begins Chapter 10 of her book, Lead the Way in Five Minutes a Day: Sparking High Performance in Yourself and Your Team. This chapter, along with the 10 others in this book, cover everyday, real-life topics such as communication, diversity and workplace culture. Each chapter begins with a self-assessment guide to help readers identify relevant strengths to develop and opportunities for growth.
Although leaders cannot prepare for every situation, they can be prepared to lead, and this book will help spark their leadership potential and show executives the way to high performance.
Learn more and order your copy today.
Share the Value of Membership With Your Colleagues
Earn points that you can redeem for prizes when you refer colleagues to join ACHE through the Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program. This program recognizes ACHE Members with reward points when they recruit colleagues and encourage current Members to advance to Fellow. These points can be redeemed for prizes such as $25 discount coupons or ACHE merchandise, including a UV phone sanitizer with a wireless charging pad, a one-year CEO Circle membership (for CEOs only), ACHE face masks and more. Members can redeem points as soon as they earn them and up to Dec. 31 in the year after points were earned.
More importantly, by referring colleagues to join ACHE, members are introducing individuals to benefits such as:
- Access to ACHE’s unique array of programs and activities, content and research.
- The opportunity to earn the distinction of board certification as a Fellow of ACHE.
- Exclusive career resources such as ACHE’s online Job Center.
Visit ache.org/L2L today to learn more and start recruiting new members and earning rewards. If you have any questions, please contact the Customer Service Center at (312) 434-9400 or contact@ache.org.
Being Authentic at Work Means Honoring Who I Am
“For me, professional self-care includes setting boundaries and staying true to myself,” writes Alexandra Simonton, director of community health at Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, in a recent ACHE Blog post, “Being Authentic at Work Means Honoring Who I Am.” To accomplish this, Simonton holds daily, hourlong wellness blocks on her calendar that she intentionally uses for mindfulness, decompressing or getting reorganized after back-to-back meetings, reading work-related articles she’s saved or grabbing a bite to eat. “Being authentic at work means honoring who I am and not who others expect me to be—this is self-care at its core!”
In this Q&A-style blog post—part of a series featuring ACHE’s early careerist healthcare leaders—Simonton, a member of ACHE’s Early Careerist Committee and a 2022 Thomas C. Dolan Career Accelerator Program scholar, discusses her role; how she practices self-care; her commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion; and the role ACHE has played in her professional development.
Visit ache.org/Blog for more timely and relevant topics trending today in healthcare management.