- Leadership Spotlight:
Webinar: Help Unlock Employee Creativity During the Pandemic - Optimize Your Job Search
- CMS Announces New Model to Transform Rural Healthcare
- Last Chance for Recent Grads to Transfer to Full Membership for Free
- Improving Patient Safety and Outcomes With Six Sigma
- Blog: 3 Ways to Ace an Interview
Leadership Spotlight: Webinar: Help Unlock Employee Creativity During the Pandemic
COVID-19 has strained healthcare operations for everyone from supply chain staff to front-line workers in the ED. However, health systems with a standard management system have found it easier to navigate these challenging times compared with systems struggling with management variation.
On Friday, join healthcare leaders from UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, Mass.; Mount Sinai Morningside, New York; and Catalysis, Appleton, Wis., for a free webinar that will explore a standard management system they developed before the pandemic hit. The system has helped unlock the creativity of thousands of workers, enabling them to rapidly solve problems and effectively manage one of the biggest healthcare crises in recent history.
Worth 1 ACHE Qualified Education credit, this webinar is part of ACHE’s ongoing effort to provide support and resources in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is one of many tools and resources available to healthcare professionals on ache.org/COVID. Register today.
Optimize Your Job Search
We know navigating a job search can be challenging, especially now. ACHE remains dedicated to supporting you with member-exclusive resources such as our Job Center. With this resource, you can apply for healthcare management positions quickly and easily and search through nearly 1,500 open positions across the nation based on preferences such as location and desired salary. You also have the option of posting a resume, so that potential employers and recruiters can find you.
Optimize your job search today and take advantage of the Job Center and various other career resources in our online Career Resource Center.
CMS Announces New Model to Transform Rural Healthcare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently unveiled a new model intended to help rural healthcare delivery systems leverage innovative financial arrangements to increase access and improve quality. Specifically, the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation model aims to increase financial stability for rural healthcare providers, remove regulatory burden and enhance beneficiaries’ access to healthcare services. To achieve these goals, the model will test whether upfront investments, predictable capitated payments and operational and regulatory flexibility will enable rural healthcare providers to improve access to high-quality care while reducing costs. Providers interested in participating in the CHART model can choose between a community transformation track or an accountable care organization transformation track. More information on the model is available here.
Last Chance for Recent Grads to Transfer to Full Membership for Free
Now through Aug. 30, Student Associates can transfer to full membership free of charge and experience all the benefits of being a Member. Full membership means automatically belonging to ACHE’s Early Careerist Network, being able to begin accruing Member tenure toward becoming a Fellow and participating in ACHE’s Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program. Recent graduates can jumpstart their career by visiting My ACHE to transfer to Member status or ache.org/Students for more information about transferring.
Improving Patient Safety and Outcomes With Six Sigma
High-reliability organizations prioritize safety over other performance measures and equip staff with operational tactics to help them anticipate potential problems early on and respond to threats. High-Reliability Healthcare: Improving Patient Safety and Outcomes With Six Sigma, Second Edition, explores how the Six Sigma approach to quality improvement integrates with and complements the culture of high-reliability organizations. Chapter 6, for example, explores the topics of communications and teams. “Communications need to take account of inadvertent error. To do so, apply the now-familiar three rules: 1. Design the communication so that success is more likely than failure. 2. Let the sender determiner if the communication succeeded or failed. 3. Let the sender make a correction on the spot.”
Written in a practical, how-to style and now extensively revised, this Health Administration Press book provides healthcare executives with a tool kit for understanding variability, managing change, and ultimately reducing errors and improving patient outcomes. Order your copy today.
Blog: 3 Ways to Ace an Interview
When searching for a new job, it is crucial during the interview stage to show future employers who you are, how you stand out and what you bring to the position. Whether you’re looking for your first job—or it’s just the first time you’re looking in a while—be at your best by following this advice from career expert John G. Self, president/managing partner, JohnGSelf + Partners Inc. For example, Self recommends sharing knowledge with your interviewer through storytelling to make yourself more memorable and engaging.
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