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Strengthen Your Physician Engagement - Make Your Next Career Move With ACHE’s Job Center
- Explore EDCN: An Essential Resource for Diverse Healthcare Professionals
- ACHE Blog: When Fuel Gets Added to the Fire
- Join IHF This Fall for a Free Women in Leadership Forum
- Digital Health Management Micro-Conference Tomorrow
Strengthen Your Physician Engagement
Cape Fear Valley Health System, Fayetteville, N.C., knows full well the physician shortage situation, with demand projected to be largest in the South at 62,900 full-time physicians needed, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. In this column, read how the health system is addressing the situation by developing residency programs with the intent to retain physicians.
This month, we are offering healthcare leaders a free resource that offers additional strategies to strengthen physician engagement. In this chapter from Enhanced Physician Engagement, Volume 1: What It Is, Why You Need It, and Where to Begin, editor Carson F. Dye, FACHE, examines why today’s healthcare environment, which demands more physicians, should give them more substantive roles in influencing policy and tactics.
We hope you enjoy this Monthly Membership Perk, and we thank you for being a part of the ACHE community.
Make Your Next Career Move With ACHE’s Job Center
With over 3,000 jobs posted, ACHE’s Job Center is one of the most frequently visited and valued features on ache.org. The Job Center also features:
- A contemporary, updated design that improves the user experience.
- Intuitive job search functionality that allows users to search for, view and apply to jobs on the same page.
- Customized job alerts designed to strategically define and coordinate push notifications based on job titles, geography, organization name, salary range and more.
- The ability to create job-seeker profiles and provide ACHE-approved employers with access to resumes for enhanced visibility.
- Online recruitment and job posting for members looking to promote available positions, recruit high-caliber candidates and leverage the expertise of ACHE member candidates.
Visit ACHE’s Job Center today to sign up for job alerts and check out the many other resources available in ACHE’s Career Resource Center.
Explore EDCN: An Essential Resource for Diverse Healthcare Professionals
Research and real-world experience confirm diversity at the highest ranks of healthcare management contributes to improved quality, equity and safe care for all people. However, the path to senior leadership roles can be fraught with challenges—particularly for healthcare professionals from racially and ethnically underrepresented groups and those who identify as LGBTQ
The Executive Diversity Career Navigator, also known as EDCN, helps healthcare leaders from underrepresented groups chart a career path to the highest levels of leadership. This centralized resource, a project of ACHE and five partner organizations, offers information, tools and inspiration for diverse leaders navigating their career paths to senior level positions. Everyone from early careerists to senior executives can benefit from EDCN, which includes free access to most assets. Visit edcnavigator.org today and explore all that EDCN offers.
ACHE Blog: When Fuel Gets Added to the Fire
“In the arid mountain west amid ongoing drought, wildfire season doesn't let up, even during a COVID-19 surge,” writes Jeff Prater, FACHE, CEO, Carson Valley Medical Center, Gardnerville, Nev., in a recent ACHE Blog post. Since joining Carson Valley Medical Center as CEO in June 2018, Prater has experienced multiple wildfire threats to the area, including the Tamarack and Caldor Fires of 2021. Prater credits his experience and training as a veteran U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman for preparing him to lead and support his team through a challenging time while finding creative ways to continue hospital operations. Read the full blog post to learn more about how Prater and his team worked through simultaneous crises.
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Join IHF This Fall for a Free Women in Leadership Forum
Although women represent 70% of the 43 million healthcare employees worldwide, they are still underrepresented in senior leadership roles across the global health sector, according to the World Health Organization. The International Hospital Federation invites all female healthcare leaders who work for IHF member organizations to join its virtual Women in Leadership Forum on Sept. 1. Turn challenges into leadership opportunities at this free event established to provide a safe and uplifting environment for women leaders in healthcare to share experiences, build professional relationships and expand the voices of women in the workplace.
Co-hosted by leadership services provider Alumni Global, the forum will be chaired by ACHE President/CEO and IHF President Deborah J. Bowen, FACHE, CAE, and will feature a mix of live presentations and panel discussions. Successful female executives will also share stories about their leadership journeys, and attendees can explore issues facing women leaders in healthcare and gain a better understanding about the actions needed to build a more equitable, inclusive healthcare workplace. Learn more and register for free today.
Digital Health Management Micro-Conference Tomorrow
Interested in digital health? The Health Care Management and Management Consulting Divisions of the Academy of Management invite you to join them from 7–10 p.m. Pacific time Aug. 9 for a virtual micro-conference on digital health management. Available via Zoom, the three-hour event will feature highly interactive sessions that will consider management’s roles in the digital transformation of healthcare and discuss a research agenda grounded in patient, clinician and manager perspectives. Speakers and participants include academics, clinicians and leaders of large private institutions from diverse countries, including China, France and the United States.
This micro-conference is free of charge and open to all. You can see the full program here.