Spend Trends: Optimizing spend for efficiency and resiliency
As an industry under constant budgetary pressure to stay within tight profit margins and up to date with rapidly advancing technology, healthcare organizations need control over employee spend and the ability to make smart, strategic spending decisions.
- Finding Joy and Impact in the Messy Middle
- Hot Topics Grabbing Headlines at Congress 2025
- Members in the News: Bruno Named President at WVU Medicine Hospitals
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Sustainable Healthcare Depends on Good Governance Practices - Apply for the 2025 Summer Enrichment Program
Finding Joy and Impact in the Messy Middle
Talented healthcare professionals stand out early in their careers. They’re motivated, educated, personable and plan to make big waves in the industry. As life unfolds, however, it can throw a curveball into the best-laid plans. In a Healthcare Executive podcast, Antwan Williams, COO of Orlando (Fla.) Health South Seminole Hospital, and Alex Maiersperger, global head of product marketing, Health Care, SAS, discuss how to successfully navigate the mid-career phase.
“There are so many, often-competing, priorities that don’t get the sort of priority in conversation that I think they deserve,” says Maiersperger. The mid-career day-to-day doesn’t have either the excitement of just graduating or the seniority where colleagues seek out your opinion, adds Williams, pointing out that in the “messy middle,” it’s often tough to get perspective on achievements, ambition, satisfaction and salary. “Our goal is to be a supportive force as folks move into a stage of happiness in their career,” he says.
Hear from Williams and Maiersperger in person at the Congress on Healthcare Leadership on Tuesday, March 25 in Houston, where they will be joined by Cachet Colvard, head of partnerships, Guaranteed Health. The trio will be presenting Leadership Insights: Mid-Career Mastery—Finding Joy and Impact While Navigating the Messy Middle of Your Healthcare Career.
Hot Topics Grabbing Headlines at Congress 2025
Hear directly from experts within healthcare and beyond about critical issues facing the field at ACHE’s Congress on Healthcare Leadership, Monday, March 24 to Thursday, March 27. These popular Hot Topic sessions cover healthcare policy, medication management, technology, healthcare funding, and more.
Monday, March 24
- Join Ginny Clarke, former director, executive recruiting/holistic leadership strategist, Google, for “Hot Topic: Developing Your Leadership Brand and Telling Your Story.” Clarke’s session will help attendees identify their unique strengths and formulate a powerful branding statement to craft a compelling leadership identify.
Tuesday, March 25
- American Hospital Association executives Richard J. Pollack, president/CEO, and Stacey Hughes, executive vice president, government relations and public policy, will do a deep dive into the intricate and shifting world of healthcare policy and politics during “Hot Topic: AHA Policy and Politics Update.”
- Paul Zikopoulos, future trends expert/vice president, Technology Group Skills & Enablement, IBM, will present “Hot Topic: Future Tech Trends—Disruption, Data and All Things AI.” Zikopoulos believes a competitive advantage lies in data and tackling solvable problems that others have ignored.
- In “Hot Topic: How Do We Fund Healthcare to Improve Outcomes?” learn the pros, cons, opportunities and challenges of how to leverage public and private investments to foster meaningful, measurable change in healthcare. Presenters are Cheryl Pegus, MD, FACC, managing director, Morgan Health Ventures, and Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, director and Robert J. Margolis, MD, Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy at the Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Duke University.
Wednesday, March 26
- Join a team of experts, in cooperation with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, as they present “Hot Topic: Medication Management, Prescription Drugs and the Bottom Line,” an overview of the marketplace changes in prescription drug pricing, reimbursement and sites of care impacting hospitals and health systems. Presenters include: Tad A Gomez, FASHP, president, Loyola University Medical Center; Christopher A. Hatwig, FASHP, president, Apexus; and Tom Kraus, vice president, government relations, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
If you haven’t already reserved your spot, don’t delay as education sessions fill up quickly. Visit Congress 2025 to register and learn more.
Members in the News: Bruno Named President at WVU Medicine Hospitals
Judy Bruno, RN, FACHE, has been named president and CEO of WVU Medicine Barnesville (Ohio) Hospital and WVU Medicine Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. To read about your peers making headlines, or to submit an item, visit ACHE’s Members in the News.
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Sustainable Healthcare Depends on Good Governance Practices
In Environmental, Social, and Governance: A Framework for the Future of Healthcare, Carla Jackie Sampson, PhD, FACHE, delves into environmental, social and governance principles and illustrates how to integrate them into daily operations. She explores developing climate-smart initiatives and examines the effect of environmental factors on credit ratings. She reviews five principles that perpetuate inequity while also connecting medical caregivers with their community. Finally, Sampson speaks to the importance of creating and maintaining board diversity.
In an excerpt from Part 3, “Sustainable Healthcare Depends on Good Governance Practices,” the author explains how effective leadership and governance practices can ensure health security, equity and corporate resilience in the face of emergencies. This excerpt also elaborates on the importance of dealing with inequities in systems, applying population health management tactics to progress toward sustainable development goals and more.
This month, an excerpt of Environmental, Social, and Governance: A Framework for the Future of Healthcare, is complimentary for ACHE members. We hope you enjoy this complimentary Monthly Membership Perk, and we thank you for being a part of the ACHE community.
Apply for the 2025 Summer Enrichment Program
Registration is open for the American Hospital Association’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity’s 2025 Summer Enrichment Program. This program seeks students with a demonstrated commitment to advancing diversity and health equity through lived experiences to strengthen the pipeline and build the next generation of leaders in healthcare.
This opportunity is a 10-week, paid internship program for graduate students who are pursuing an advanced degree within healthcare or a related field. Students in the program are paired with a healthcare organization, where they will benefit from experiential learning, mentorship, networking and the opportunity to learn from experts in the field. Experienced administrators serve as preceptors and mentors, providing support and career advice as well as critical early-career connections.
ACHE and the Institute are co-promoting the program to increase the number of students who participate and, accordingly, increase the number of host sites. Healthcare organizations that register to become a host site gain access to these healthcare leaders of tomorrow.
Internships generally take place June through August. Learn more and apply today.