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Healthcare Strategic Planning - ACHE Celebrates Publishing Award Recipients
- Winners of Stull Essay Competition, HEN and Leader-to-Leader Honored at Congress
- Overcoming Capacity Constraints to Achieve Efficiency and ROI
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Healthcare Strategic Planning
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath highlighted the importance of strategic planning. In Healthcare Strategic Planning, Fifth Edition, authors John M. Harris and Meredith C. Inniger, FACHE, include the most recent research on strategic planning, as well as refreshed best practices considering recent issues in access to care, patient expectations in the wake of the pandemic and the national focus on health equity. Additionally, Harris and Inniger include new information on the importance of several areas of the strategic planning process and key issues specific to healthcare strategic planning.
In Chapter 5 “Encouraging Strategic Thinking,” Harris and Inniger describe what strategic thinking is and the differences between it and other forms of thinking. They explore areas such as strategic thinking versus strategic planning, thinking differently and the components of new approaches to promoting strategic thinking. This chapter discusses the history, organizational impacts and implications of strategic planning.
This brand-new edition uncovers the crucial decisions that must be made at every stage of strategic and effective planning, as well as the preparatory steps that must be taken for implementation.
Chapter 5, “Encouraging Strategic Thinking,” is free of charge to ACHE members. We hope you enjoy this complimentary Monthly Membership Perk, and we thank you for being a part of the ACHE community.
ACHE Celebrates Publishing Award Recipients
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s ACHE publishing awards, presented during the 2024 Congress on Healthcare Leadership.
Michael E. Frisina, PhD, and Robert Frisina were named the winners of the James A. Hamilton Award for their book Leading With Your Upper Brain: How to Create the Behaviors That Unlock Performance Excellence (Health Administration Press, 2023). This award is given annually to the author(s) of a management or healthcare book judged outstanding by ACHE’s Book of the Year Committee.
Asiah Ruffin, RN; Maria R. Shirey, PhD, RN, FACHE; Tracey Dick, PhD, RN, CNE; Pariya L. Fazeli, PhD; and Patricia A. Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN, were named winners of the Edgar C. Hayhow Award for their article “Understanding the Impact of Span of Control on Nurse Managers and Hospital Outcomes,” published in the May/June 2023 issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management. ACHE grants this award annually to the author(s) of an article judged as the best among those published in the Journal of Healthcare Management.
Kate Walsh was named the winner of the Dean Conley Award for her article “Equity Rx: Boston Medical Center’s Work to Accelerate Racial Health Justice,” published in the winter 2022 issue of the Frontiers of Health Services Management. ACHE grants this award annually to recognize contributions to healthcare management literature and to encourage healthcare executives to write and publish articles.
Other award winners honored at Congress were acknowledged in the April 1 issue of ACHe-news. General information about ACHE awards can be found on the “ACHE News and Awards” webpage.
Winners of Stull Essay Competition, HEN and Leader-to-Leader Honored at Congress
Recipients of the following ACHE awards were also recognized during the 2024 Congress on Healthcare Leadership:
Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management
Six students—three graduate and three undergraduate—were recognized for their winning essays submitted for the Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management. The purpose of the competition is to stimulate and demonstrate the ability of future healthcare leaders to identify and describe important issues and developments in their chosen profession.
Graduate Division
- First place: Mariam Fawzy Eid, Baylor University, for “Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Electronic Health Records to Mitigate Physician Burnout: A Roadmap to AI Integration into the EHR.”
- Second place: Warren A Poquiz, Texas Woman’s University, College of Business, for “Navigating the Risks of AI Foundation Models in Healthcare: How Health Systems Can Respond.”
- Third place: Payton Ferguson, Trinity University, for “The Healthcare Industry: Focusing on the Cross Section of Environmental Sustainability and Healthcare.”
Undergraduate Division
- First place: Paige N. Rothlisberger, Bowling Green State University, for “AI-Powered Patient-Centered Care: A Call for Innovation.”
- Second place: Annie McDonald, Auburn University, for “Utilizing the Four-Day Workweek to Stay Sharp in an Everchanging Staffing Environment.”
- Third place: Mila Stropkay, Loyola University Chicago, for “Printing the Path to Progress.”
Higher Education Network Award Winners
The Higher Education Network Awards Program recognizes graduate and undergraduate programs participating in the ACHE Higher Education Network that have demonstrated the highest level of ACHE engagement.
- Graduate program winner: University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
- Undergraduate program winner: Brazosport College, Lake Jackson, Texas.
ACHE Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program Top Achievers
These individuals recruited and advanced the greatest number of members in 2023 through the ACHE 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.
- Hospitals, health systems and other healthcare-related settings category: Courtnay Caufield, DNP, FACHE, CNO, Cedars Sinai—Marina del Rey (Calif.) Hospital.
- Academic category: Kerrie Anne Ambort-Clark, assistant dean, health-related business programs, Soules College of Business, and director, Healthcare Leadership Distinction, School of Medicine, The University of Texas, Tyler.
- Uniformed Services/Veterans Affairs category: CDR Temitope Ayeni, FACHE, director of administration, Naval Hospital, and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Center.
Overcoming Capacity Constraints to Achieve Efficiency and ROI
Workforce shortages and an aging, expanding patient population place enormous pressures on hospitals and health systems. For their organizations to deliver higher volumes of quality care, while saving costs, healthcare leaders must safely do more with less.
Done correctly, a capacity management solution can optimize the most expensive healthcare resources—ORs, infusion chairs, inpatient areas and staff—and increase earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. This can mean the difference between mere survival and thriving success.
Deploying AI-powered technology is one way to optimize capacity. But AI is just part of the solution. The “magic equation” for optimized capacity and ROI combines AI-powered automation, workflow integration and data hygiene, and change management to foster long-term transformation.
With this approach, health systems can perform two to four more surgeries per OR per month, ensure enough inpatient capacity to "keep the front door open” for hospital patients and—in appointment-driven settings like infusion centers—maintain schedules that best use the valuable time of patients, providers and staff. This efficiency dramatically reduces delays in care, while automation further eliminates repetitive tasks like documentation, lowering the possibility of error and freeing staff’s time and energy for strategic decisions.
The key to these impactful outcomes is an effective AI and automation engine, deployed with the assistance of an expert change management team that works hand-in-hand with stakeholders to deliver promised outcomes in hospitals and ambulatory centers.
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We thank you for your efforts, which is why when you submit your completed FACHE application between March 1 and June 30—along with the $250 application fee—ACHE will waive the $225 Board of Governors Exam fee, if your application is approved. This fee waiver is good for one attempt at the Board of Governors Exam in Healthcare Management.
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