- Program Spotlight:
Addressing Healthcare Inequities in April - Unlocking Healthcare Capacity
- Earn Up to 6 Education Credits Next Week to Recertify Your FACHE®
- Popular Reads Now Available as Audiobooks
- ACHE Celebrates Congress Award Winners
Program Spotlight:
Addressing Healthcare Inequities in April
Every April, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health observes National Minority Health Month to highlight the importance of improving the health of racial and ethnic minorities and reducing health disparities. Supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is integral to ACHE’s mission and daily work, and attendees of next week’s Virtual Leadership Symposium will find a wide array of sessions that focus on this topic. Following is a preview.
Join David R. Williams, PhD, chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University, for an eye-opening presentation during “Hot Topic: An Evidence-Based Approach to Addressing Healthcare’s Inequities.” Williams, who developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, will present evidence for how racism is producing an unfair system. For a preview of William’s presentation, you can listen to a conversation with him on the latest episode of the Healthcare Executive Podcast.
Research continues to show that a variety of societal factors impact health risks and outcomes. During “Leadership Insights: Leveraging Data to Address Social Determinants of Health,” Andrew Renda, MD, vice president, Bold Goal and Population Health Strategy, Humana, and Denise Brooks-Williams, FACHE, senior vice president/CEO, North Market, Henry Ford Health System, will explore the role health systems can play in positively impacting social determinants of health.
Social justice and diversity, equity and inclusion needs are top of mind at health systems, and across society, but knowing where to start and how to get meaningful results can be challenging. Join Janet Smith-Hill, RN, chief human resources officer, SSM Health, for a discussion of what’s worked and where the nonprofit, Catholic health system is heading during “Leadership Insights: Driving Equity From the Inside Out—Meeting Workforce Needs.”
You can still register for the Virtual Leadership Symposium with early bird pricing through April 6 by visiting ache.org/VLS.
Unlocking Healthcare Capacity
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed some hospitals and health systems to the very edge of their capacity. On the demand side, more patients needed intensive medical care, while on the supply side, there were shortages in PPE, then ICU beds, then regular beds and finally, nursing staff. Ultimately, these challenges resulted in razor-thin margins for some, and as a result, building or buying more assets to meet demand was not feasible for many organizations. Instead, the key to unlocking capacity for some hospitals and health systems lies in getting more efficient and effective use of their existing assets.
One silver lining to emerge from the pandemic is the opportunity it created for artificial intelligence-based healthcare operations solutions to demonstrate a measurable ROI and help hospitals emerge stronger.
AI in healthcare operations is becoming a foundational component of digital health and operational excellence. At LeanTaaS, we work with some of the nation’s leading health systems to provide the sophisticated analytics necessary to solve fundamental operational equations of supply and demand for each unit of service, for each hour of each day of the week. These dynamic learning AI-based solutions relieve staff from the administrative burden of having to manually predict schedules or plan discharges while under enormous stress, often resulting in extended patient wait times.
By using AI to unlock capacity not next year, but today, hospitals can reduce stress on staff, improve financial performance and serve more patients while enhancing their experience. To learn more about how you can improve your health system’s capacity and do more with less, download this white paper.
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Earn Up to 6 Education Credits Next Week to Recertify Your FACHE®
If you are an ACHE Fellow whose credentials are set to expire this year, or were set to expire in 2021 or 2020, you can earn up to 6 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits next week by attending the 2022 Virtual Leadership Symposium, April 11–12. Normally, the recertification application with payment is due between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of the year in which certification expires, but the recertification deadline has been extended for the 2020 and 2021 recertification classes to April 30, 2022. Fellows can recertify in three easy steps:
- Complete continuing education activities or retake and pass the Board of Governors Exam.
- Complete four volunteer activities.
- Pay the recertification fee of $200 when you submit your recertification application by the April 30 deadline.
You can learn more about the recertification process by visiting ache.org/FACHE and selecting the Maintain/Recertify My FACHE button from the menu.
Additionally, if you are over the age of 60 and will retire within the next five years, you may be eligible for a one-time-only, five-year recertification waiver. For more information, please contact Customer Service at (312) 424-9400 or contact@ache.org.
Current Fellows who are in good standing and are retired from healthcare management may transfer to Retired Status or Life Status. Learn more about the FACHE(R) and LFACHE designations here.
Popular Reads Now Available as Audiobooks
Now, you can listen to some of your favorite Health Administration Press titles in an audiobook format. Leaders of all career stages will benefit from listening to the unabridged Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders, a James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award winner. Through stories, interviews and research findings, Amer Kaissi, PhD, professor of healthcare administration at Trinity University, offers an engaging exploration of evidence-based practices from an array of leaders in different settings.
For those in the early stages of becoming a healthcare leader, you’ll find The Emerging Healthcare Leader: A Field Guide, Second Edition, also unabridged, to be an essential resource. Packed with tactics, tips and illuminating examples, this audiobook will become an indispensable guide to building your career in healthcare leadership.
Get your audiobook copies of Intangibles and The Emerging Healthcare Leader today.
ACHE Celebrates Congress Award Winners
Last week during the 2022 Congress on Healthcare Leadership, ACHE recognized its award winners, including recipients of the publishing awards, the Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management, the Higher Education Network Award and those inducted into the Modern Healthcare Health Care Hall of Fame.
Publishing Awards
ACHE presented the James A. Hamilton Award, the Edgar C. Hayhow Award and the Dean Conley Award to the following individuals:
- Thom Mayer, MD, FACHE, was named winner of the 2022 James A. Hamilton Award for his book Battling Healthcare Burnout: Learning to Love the Job You Have While Creating the Job You Love (Berrett-Koehler, 2021).
- Christine Pitocco, PhD; Thomas R. Sexton, PhD; and Kelly Stickle, were named winners of the 2022 Edgar C. Hayhow Award for their article “Using Data Analytics to Improve Hospital Quality Performance?” published in the July/August 2020 issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management.
- Aimee J. Daily, PhD, FACHE, was named winner of the 2022 Dean Conley Award for her article “How One Healthcare Organization Is Creating a True System,” published in the summer 2021 issue of Frontiers of Health Services Management.
Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management
The winners of the 2022 Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition are:
- Allison J. Weidman of the University of Minnesota won first place in the graduate division for her essay “Establishing a Sustainable Healthcare Delivery Workforce in the Wake of COVID-19.”
- Warren A. Poquiz of Texas State University—San Marcos won first place in the undergraduate division for his essay “Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: An Analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.”
Higher Education Network Award
The winners of the 2022 Higher Education Network Award are:
- Army-Baylor University was recognized as the graduate program that demonstrated the highest level of ACHE engagement.
- Brazosport College, Lake Jackson, Texas, was recognized as the undergraduate program that demonstrated the highest level of ACHE engagement.
Additional Awards
Modern Healthcare, in conjunction with ACHE, honored its 2022 Health Care Hall of Fame inductees at the 2022 Congress. Learn more about the award and this year’s inductees, including ACHE Fellows C. Duane Dauner, FACHE, and Nancy Schlichting, FACHE.
In addition, ACHE recognized three members who recruited the greatest number of new Members and/or successfully encouraged advancement to Fellow in 2021 through the ACHE Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program. Read about them here.
The recipients of ACHE’s highest individual awards were acknowledged in the March 28 issue of ACHe-news. General information about ACHE awards can be found in the ACHE News and Awards section of ache.org.