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February 14, 2022

 

Monthly Membership Perk:

Achieve Higher-Quality Healthcare Today 

As the healthcare field continues to move toward value-based care, delivery models must focus on clinical and business outcomes instead of volume. In the same way that clinical practice is increasingly oriented toward evidence-based medicine, one of healthcare’s contemporary strategies is to use evidence-based management of labor and supply chains for higher quality healthcare at a fraction of the cost.

This month, we are offering a free resource to help healthcare leaders transform their organizations into integrated delivery systems capable of yielding population healthcare outcomes in new ways. In this chapter from Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises, Jon Burroughs, MD, FACHE, and Steve Berger, LFACHE, CPA, FHFMA, examine healthcare organizations’ best practices for employing evidence-based management of labor and supply chains to achieve significantly lower costs while optimizing quality and safety.

Interested in learning more about new care delivery models? Join Burroughs at our 2022 Congress on Healthcare Leadership for a session he will lead about optimizing ambulatory care for the 21st century.

We hope you enjoy this Monthly Membership Perk, and we thank you for being a part of the ACHE community.

Gain Industry Perspectives on the Current and Future State of the Healthcare Landscape

From delivery of care to healthcare policy to the current election cycle, healthcare leaders have a lot to keep tabs on in today’s rapidly changing environment. Attendees of the 2022 Congress on Healthcare Leadership, March 28–31, can hear industry leaders’ perspectives on these critical topics during the AHA, AHIP and ANA Special Session: Industry Perspectives: The Current and Future State of the Healthcare Landscape.

Join Richard J. Pollack, president/CEO, American Hospital Association; Matthew D. Eyles, president/CEO, America’s Health Insurance Plans; and Ernest J. Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, president, American Nurses Association, for a fireside chat moderated by Melinda L. Estes, MD, president/CEO, Saint Luke’s Health System. They will discuss how they are guiding their organizations through the healthcare landscape, policy recommendations based on current trends and expectations for the future, and they’ll identify strategies for how leaders can stay tuned in to various issues across the healthcare spectrum.

Visit ache.org/Congress to explore all of this year’s offerings, and be sure to register by March 7 for early bird registration prices. Congress registrants who are interested in attending the Virtual Leadership Symposium, April 11–12, can register for that event with a discount of more than 50% off the regular fee by adding it to their in-person Congress registration, or they can register separately just for the Virtual Leadership Symposium.

There’s Still Time to Join Us for ACHE’s Day of Giving

For nearly 90 years, we have remained dedicated to advancing our members and healthcare leadership excellence. Today, on ACHE’s Day of Giving, we invite you to help advance healthcare leadership excellence by contributing to the Fund for Healthcare Leadership. The Fund provides scholarships for our Executive Program—which offers extensive and immersive experiences for aspiring leaders—and wholly supports the Thomas C. Dolan Executive Diversity Program and the Thomas C. Dolan Career Accelerator Program. Both of these programs help to promote and prepare diverse and highly qualified healthcare leaders for the future.

When you donate to the Fund, you help provide resources for the future leaders of our field. Today, on this year’s Day of Giving, please join us in making a difference for aspiring leaders. Visit ache.org/DayofGiving to learn more.

Physician Alignment: A Critical Leadership Imperative 

Although healthcare leaders understand the importance of a strong relationship with the physicians who practice at healthcare organizations, many executives struggle with choosing an effective alignment strategy from a variety of models, incentive structures and confounding regulations. In “The Importance of Physician Alignment,” Richard Priore, ScD, FACHE, and Michael Bernstein, MD, offer readers an evidence-based management approach used by leaders at Providence Alaska that has helped the organization to achieve noteworthy improvements in lowering lengths of stay, reducing hospital-acquired infections and improving financial performance.

Visit HealthcareExecutive.org to read more from the latest issue of Healthcare Executive, as well as exclusive online-only Web Extras, such as this companion piece to the Jan/Feb “Physician Leadership” column, and to listen to the Healthcare Executive Podcast. 

Podcast: Staying Ahead of the Curve

In this episode of the Healthcare Executive Podcast, we speak with Rachel Wilson, managing director/head of cybersecurity for Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley. Wilson, who spent the first 15 years of her career at the National Security Agency leading global counterterrorism efforts, shares insights on the most pressing and imminent cyberthreats facing healthcare leaders and how they can stay ahead of the curve as online security infrastructure evolves over the next several years. Wilson will join ACHE at the 2022 Congress on Healthcare Leadership where she will lead a Hot Topic session about driving innovation for new cybersecurity and authentication technology. Register today at ache.org/Congress.

Also, be sure to visit HealthcareExecutive.org/Podcast to listen and browse through more episodes. The podcast is also available by searching for “Healthcare Executive” in Apple Podcasts, iTunes or your podcast app of choice. 

Reminder: The International Hospital Federation Is Calling for Abstracts

The International Hospital Federation is inviting members and nonmembers to submit abstracts for the 45th World Hospital Congress, scheduled to take place Nov. 9–11 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The theme of the upcoming World Hospital Congress is "Global Learnings, Local Actions: Sustainable Healthcare,” and will focus on how healthcare leaders around the world are translating learnings from the pandemic and leading to deliver health services in more resilient and sustainable ways. Abstract submissions are meant to share projects and programs that demonstrate these innovations, models and examples of leadership, and can align with any of the following sub-themes:

  • Improvements in Delivery of Care.
  • The People Agenda.
  • Green Hospitals.

Oral abstracts are due Feb. 28 and poster abstracts are due March 11. Visit the abstract submission website to learn more and please send any questions to congress@ihf-fih.org.