- Program Spotlight:
Spring Ahead With Virtual Education - Run for Regent
- Health Equity as a Patient Safety Imperative
- Sparking High Performance in Yourself and Your Team
- CMS Proposed Rule Includes Policies to Advance Health Equity, Maternal Health
- Thank You to Our Volunteers
Program Spotlight:
Spring Ahead With Virtual Education
It’s time to start planning for your professional development for the next few months. This spring and early summer, healthcare leaders can continue to earn ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits from the comfort of their home or office while learning new skills with our popular Virtual Face-to-Face Education Courses. These innovative, interactive virtual courses address an array of trending topics for executives.
- “Revitalizing Your Quality Improvement Strategies” is a new course led by Richard G. Greenhill, DHA, FACHE, which outlines the key skills clinical and executive leaders need. Worth up to 6 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits, this course will introduce frameworks organizations can use to move from prioritizing objectives to executing a quality strategy.
- During “Service Line Planning: Developing a Consumer-Based Approach to Providing Quality Care,” worth up to 9 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits, two experienced healthcare executives will address how to evaluate your organization’s service lines by using tools to select areas for future growth.
- Designed to increase leaders’ self-awareness of their presence and positive impact through skill and personality assessments, coaching sessions, groups discussions and peer exercises with lectures to enhance leadership capacity, the “Virtual Leadership Development Program” is worth up to 15 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits.
Other hot topic seminars scheduled this spring and early summer will address delivering exceptional presentations, artificial intelligence, behavioral healthcare services and optimizing professional well-being. And, the always popular “Virtual Board of Governors Exam Review Course,” worth up to 14 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits, will help those preparing for the Exam to identify knowledge gaps and needed areas of focus and apply test-taking strategies.
Explore all of our Virtual Face-to-Face Education offerings and register today.
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 more than 48,000 members. Serving as an elected official is a unique opportunity that allows you to exercise your leadership ability, share innovative ideas and act on behalf of ACHE members. The term begins March 2023 and ends March 2026.
All Fellows in the open jurisdictions are eligible to run for Regent. Please review the position description for geographic Regents and federal sector Regents before applying. For more information on how to declare your candidacy, contact Caitlin E. Stine, content marketing specialist, Marketing, at cstine@ache.org.
Health Equity as a Patient Safety Imperative
Care that is not equitable can impact patient safety, as has been clearly demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected marginalized populations, who generally have poorer health and are more vulnerable to disease than nonmarginalized populations. In a feature in the March/April issue of Healthcare Executive, we explore how some healthcare organizations are treating health equity as a patient safety imperative. For example, to attain health equity within their patient populations, it is imperative that health equity become a strategic priority for leadership at RWJBarnabas Health, New Brunswick, N.J.
Read “Health Equity as a Patient Safety Imperative” and the rest of the March/April issue at HealthcareExecutive.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 every day, 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.
CMS Proposed Rule Includes Policies to Advance Health Equity, Maternal Health
A recently issued Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed rule for inpatient and long-term care hospitals includes measures to advance health equity and improve maternal health outcomes. In addition to annual policies that update Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient hospitals and long-term care facilities, the fiscal year 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System rule includes measures that will encourage hospitals to build health equity into their core functions and to improve the safety and quality of maternity care. CMS will accept comments on the proposed rule through June 17. Learn more about the proposed rule here.
In addition, CMS also recently outlined a strategy to advance health equity, challenging healthcare industry leaders to address systemic inequities. Building on the agency’s commitment to make health equity the first “pillar” of its strategic vision, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is inviting healthcare industry leaders to make commitments to advance health equity and work with CMS to share best practices to address systemic inequities in the delivery of care. To ensure sustained progress through meaningful initiatives, CMS will convene industry stakeholders, including healthcare facilities, beginning this summer. Learn more here.
In related news, Brooks-LaSure is holding a national stakeholder call April 26 to provide updates on the CMS strategic vision and key accomplishments during the first quarter of 2022. CMS invites stakeholders to join the call to learn more about how they can partner with CMS as it implements its vision. RSVP for the call here. Additionally, the CMS Office of Minority Health is hosting a Health Equity Symposium webinar April 28 to discuss how CMS is operationalizing health equity across all of its programs. Register here for the symposium.
Thank You to Our Volunteers
We are proud to recognize National Volunteer Week, April 17–23. ACHE is grateful for the service and support of our volunteers, including chapter leaders, elected leaders and Career Resource Center mentors and coaches. Your involvement helps us all serve our patients, our members and our communities. Remember, participation in volunteer activities is a requirement for earning your FACHE® credential.
In a recent ACHE blog post, we highlight some of our members and their ACHE volunteer experience. Visit ache.org/Blog to read about them and get inspired to join them.