- Program Spotlight:
Gain Expert Insights When You Attend Congress 2023 - Renew Your ACHE Member Benefits in 2023
- New Book Identifies Essential Values of Highly Effective Leaders
- Podcast: Leadership for Intense Times
- Blog: The Noisy Problem of Quiet Quitting in Healthcare
- CMS Publishes New Information for Opioid Treatment Programs
Program Spotlight:
Gain Expert Insights When You Attend Congress 2023
At ACHE’s Congress on Healthcare Leadership, Monday, March 20, to Thursday, March 23, attendees can learn from some of the field’s top executives about issues that matter most. Following are previews of Leadership Insights sessions that will address topics such as the nursing shortage, leveraging the Quintuple Aim for healthcare improvement, payer trends, promoting clinician well-being and the future of rural healthcare.
Monday, March 20
- During “Leadership Insights: Managing the Nurse Staffing Crisis—An Overview of the Latest Research and Alternative Models of Care That Will Shape the Future of Nursing,” Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, director of nursing programs and Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation, American Nurses Association, and Quint Studer, founder of Healthcare Plus Solutions Group, will join forces to present an actionable plan to help organizations consistently replenish their workforce and create a delivey model that benefits both patients and nurses.
Learn more about this topic and session from Boston-Leary during this recent episode of the Healthcare Executive Podcast.
- Join Cynthia Barginere, DNP, RN, FACHE, COO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, FACMI, president/CEO, The Joint Commission; and Ronald Wyatt, MD, founder/CEO, Achieving Healthcare Equity LLC; for “Leadership Insights: Leveraging the Quintuple Aim for Healthare Improvement.” These foremost leaders in safety, quality and health equity will share insights into the core components of the Quintuple Aim, along with evidence-based, practical strategies for leveraging these tenets to improve healthcare now and into the future.
Tuesday, March 21
- During “Leadership Insights: Payer Perspectives—Trends, Affordability and Navigating What’s Next,” America’s Health Insurance Plans President/CEO Matthew D. Eyles will identify current trends in the healthcare payer space and describe the impact they will have on hospitals and health systems over the next few years.
- Renowned healthcare leaders will describe evidence-based approaches to reduce burnout and the importance of internal wellness champions during “Leadership Insights: What’s Next? Effective Strategies to Promote Clinician Well-Being.” Fayola Edwards-Ojeba, MD, founder/CEO, RechargedMD; Jonathan Ripp, MD, professor of medicine, medical education and geriatrics and palliative medicine; dean for well-being and resilience; and chief wellness officer, Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai; and Christine Sinsky, MD, vice president, professional satisfaction, American Medical Association, will also help attendees understand the role of policy in enacting change in healthcare wellness.
Wednesday, March 22
- “Leadership Insights: Challenges and Solutions for the Future of Rural Healthcare” will be presented by Brock Slabach, senior vice president, National Rural Health Association; David William Zass, MD, CEO, and Tim Putnam, faculty, Medical University of South Carolina; and Tamaara Gibbons, executive director, and Vince Oliver, LFACHE, regional vice president, NetworxHealth, a Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Company. During this session, these leading experts will describe the unique challenges faced in rural hospitals and health systems, and they will identify solutions for overcoming these challenges in today’s healthcare environment.
These are just a few of the Leadership Insights sessions available at Congress; learn about all of them here.
If you haven’t already reserved your spot with one of our registration options, don’t delay! Education sessions fill up quickly. Visit ache.org/Congress to register and learn more.
Additionally, ACHE offers a limited number of tuition waivers for specific educational offerings—including Congress—to ACHE members whose organizations lack the resources to fund their tuition for education programs. Learn more here, and be sure to apply by the Monday, Jan. 23, deadline.
Renew Your ACHE Member Benefits in 2023
Thank you for being an important part of the American College of Healthcare Executives community. You are among more than 48,000 healthcare leaders who make a difference in the field by advancing healthcare leadership excellence and keeping our communities safe and healthy. We look forward to continuing to deliver your member benefits in 2023. Renew your ACHE membership today and continue to gain access to exclusive member benefits while staying connected with your healthcare leader peers across the country.
We hope you will join us again so we can help you lead effectively, no matter the challenges you are facing. Online auto-renewal is a quick and easy way to ensure continued access to programs, products and services that will support your care for the patients and communities you serve.
Log in at ache.org/Dues using your username and password. If you have forgotten your password, use the Forgot Your Password? feature to create a new one. (Make sure ACHE emails are not filtering to your spam folder.) You also can print a dues statement or receipt for reimbursement.
For questions about your dues, contact our Customer Service Center at contact@ache.org or (312) 424-9400.
New Book Identifies Essential Values of Highly Effective Leaders
“One of the foundational precepts in this book is that there are both personal and team values that drive appropriate and effective leadership behavior. Learning these can make it easier to adopt effective leadership behavior,” writes Carson F. Dye, FACHE, in Chapter 4 of his new book, Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills, Fourth Edition. In this revised and expanded edition, Dye focuses on the importance of developing a core set of values that drive our actions when things get difficult, and he identifies essential values that highly effective leaders possess. Five new chapters address topics such as inclusive leadership, employee burnout and clinical integration, and instructor resources include PowerPoint slides with additional discussions questions and a transition guide to the new edition. Check out the table of contents and preface to learn more, and order your copy today.
Also, don’t forget that with the Health Administration Press Holiday Sale, you can order any book now through Jan. 6, 2023, and save 20% on member and nonmember prices when you use HOLIDAY22 at checkout.
Podcast: Leadership for Intense Times
Why are agility and responsiveness more important attributes than ever for today’s healthcare leaders? Find out from Jill Case-Wirth, RN, FAAN, senior vice president/chief nurse executive, WellStar Health System, as she discusses this and more during a recent episode of the Healthcare Executive Podcast. Case-Wirth is one of several healthcare executives from distinct disciplines who spoke with Healthcare Executive magazine for its November/December cover story about how leaders’ roles and the priorities of their organizations have changed.
Visit HealthcareExecutive.org/Podcast to listen to and browse through more episodes. The podcast is also available by searching for “Healthcare Executive” in iTunes or your podcasting app of choice.
Blog: The Noisy Problem of Quiet Quitting in Healthcare
Is “quiet quitting” the response of a tuned-out healthcare workforce or a sign that the work is no longer aligned with our mission? In a new ACHE Blog post, Jessica Melton, president/CEO, Suburban Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, addresses the phenomenon known as “quiet quitting.” Described as “doing the bare minimum at work, to just get by,” Melton, who is also a 2018 Carol Emmott Fellow, writes that instead, quiet quitting is “a set of responses to thoughtless demands to keep doing more without asking whether what we are doing even makes sense.”
Read the full blog post on ache.org/Blog to learn what Melton suggests leaders do to help their teams “understand their connection to our most pressing organizational goals.”
CMS Publishes New Information for Opioid Treatment Programs
The 2023 Physician Fee Schedule final rule, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 18, includes new information for Medicare-enrolled opioid treatment programs. The final rule:
- Revises pricing methodology for the drug component of methadone weekly bundles and add-on codes for take-home methadone supplies.
- Modifies the payment rate for individual therapy in the nondrug component of bundled payments for episodes of care.
- Allows the opioid treatment program intake add-on codes to initiate treatment with buprenorphine provided via two-way audio-video communications technology, or audio-only technology when audio-video isn’t available, and all requirements are met.
- Extends the flexibility through the end of calendar year 2023 to provide periodic assessments via audio-only when video isn’t available, when authorized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
- Clarifies that opioid treatment programs can bill for medically reasonable and necessary services provided via mobile units.
CMS updated its opioid treatment program webpages with this and other new information. New information for opioid treatment programs and other recent CMS news can also be found in the Dec. 15 MLN Connects newsletter—a weekly CMS publication.