- Program Spotlight:
Tackle Today’s Challenges With a Boot Camp - Understanding the Patient’s Primary Care Experience
- Strengthening Your Supply Chain
- Early Careerist Tip: Professional Development Is Professional Self-Care
- Get to Know Your Chapter at Congress
- Join the CMS Administrator for a National Stakeholder Call Tomorrow
Program Spotlight:
Tackle Today’s Challenges With a Boot Camp
Hone your professional skills and strengthen knowledge in specific areas when you add a boot camp to your Congress on Healthcare Leadership registration.
When you attend ACHE’s Congress on Healthcare Leadership, Monday, March 20, to Thursday, March 23, you will not only gain new perspectives from across healthcare and network with thousands of the best and brightest leaders, but you’ll also have the opportunity to enhance your experience with a boot camp.
Boot camps, all of which take place Sunday, March 19, are in-depth sessions geared toward honing the professional skills of healthcare leaders in certain roles and career stages such as CEOs, COOs and emerging executives. Other boot camps focus on strengthening knowledge in specific areas such as driving a long-term culture of successful employee engagement; leading a culture of safety; and mentoring, coaching and leading to peak professional performance. Following are brief descriptions of some of the other boot camps offered:
Leading on Environmental Sustainability Boot Camp
Pursuing environmental sustainability is not only the right thing to do for human health but also can be very good for your bottom line. Led by Andrew N. Garman, PsyD, professor, Rush University/senior leadership development adviser, IHF Geneva Sustainability Center; Seema Wadhwa, executive director, environmental stewardship, Kaiser Permanente; and Edda Weimann, MD, director of learning, IHF Geneva Sustainability Center, this boot camp will help attendees gain a deeper understanding of leading environmental sustainability practices in healthcare settings and identify ideal next steps for their organizations to take in pursuing an environmental sustainability strategy.
ACHE/SHSMD Future-Focused Strategic Planning Boot Camp
Designed for attendees with strategic leadership responsibilities, this program will build skills in proven strategic planning practices while advancing knowledge of key trends and implications affecting the healthcare field in the next five years. Presented in collaboration with the Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development of the American Hospital Association, presenters David C. Grandy, FACHE, national vice president, innovation, Kaiser Permanente; Jennifer Weiss Wilkerson, FACHE, vice president and chief strategy officer, Sheppard Pratt; and Holly Sullivan, vice president, system brand and marketing, Corewell Health, will explore how to design an effective, future-focused strategic planning process that’s collaborative and performance-driven.
Driving Digital Health Innovation for Maximum Impact Boot Camp
During this interactive boot camp, presenters Ryan Bertram, principal, Chartis Digital, and Roberta Levy Schwartz, PhD, FACHE, executive vice president, chief innovation officer, Houston Methodist, will share core drivers of successful digital health innovation efforts backed by real-world examples from some of the health systems at the forefront of this space.
If you haven’t already reserved your spot with one of our registration options, don’t delay! Education sessions fill up quickly and early bird pricing ends Mon., Feb. 27. Visit ache.org/Congress to register and learn more.
Understanding the Patient’s Primary Care Experience
Putting patients at the center of the healthcare practice is no longer an aspirational goal—it is rapidly becoming a requirement. Published by Health Administration Press, The Patient’s Primary Care Experience: A Road Map to Powerful Partnerships is a handbook for providing patient-centered care. Authors Mary-Ellen Piche, CPHQ, LFACHE, and Gina Luna focus on the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, which emphasizes building relationships and enhancing communication. They begin by making the business case for this model and then dive into implementation tips and strategies. Topics covered include partnering with patients in creating and achieving care goals, and preventing and mitigating staff burnout while promoting resilience.
Order this book today and use its tools, templates and advice to help your organization increase patient satisfaction and improve outcomes.
Piche, a consultant, will also be co-presenting a session with leaders from the Veterans Health Administration titled “Building a Movement for Change: Implementing High Reliability Principles and Practices” at the 2023 Congress on Healthcare Leadership, Wednesday, March 22. This session will describe the VHA’s enterprisewide journey to incorporate high reliability into operations across its central office, 18 regional networks and 163 hospital facilities. Piche and her co-presenters from the VHA will focus on how leaders orchestrated change management and implementation activities across the system, and how high-reliability organization practices supported patient and staff safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit ache.org/Congress to register and learn more.
Strengthening Your Supply Chain
Back orders on supplies used to average about 1,500 a month across Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Then everything changed in March 2020, which was followed by lockdowns, clogged ports, severe weather, war and a scarcity of raw materials—all leading to myriad supply shortages, ranging from PPE to imaging and laboratory test supplies, at Mayo and health systems across the country. At the height of the pandemic, back orders at Mayo peaked at 8,000 a month before eventually settling down to around 5,000 a month in autumn 2022.
These and other supply chain challenges—and solutions—can be found in the January/February 2023 Healthcare Executive cover story. In it, we spoke with leaders of supply chains about the implications of these disruptions for the healthcare field, and how to build resiliency and reliability into operations. Efforts to address supply chain disruptions include strategic and collaborative approaches to sourcing, skilled contracting and inventory management, and investments in data and analytics that help organizations predict and address supply shortages and bottlenecks.
Read the full story to learn how other hospitals and health systems are responding to product shortages, and be sure to check out the rest of the January/February Healthcare Executive.
Early Careerist Tip: Professional Development Is Professional Self-Care
“Make sure you’re building a career where your credibility is concordant with your compass,” says Frantz Berthaud, market director of oncology services at the Hospitals of Providence in El Paso, Texas, in a recent ACHE Blog post, “‘Professional Development Is Professional Self-Care’: A Conversation With Early Careerist Committee Chair.” In this Q&A-style blog post, the first in a series featuring ACHE’s early careerist healthcare leaders, Berthaud, chair of ACHE’s Early Careerist Committee and a 2022 Thomas C. Dolan Career Accelerator Program scholar, discusses his role and his commitment to professional development.
Visit ache.org/Blog for more timely and relevant topics trending today in healthcare management.
Get to Know Your Chapter at Congress
Is volunteering at your local chapter on your to-do list in 2023? Attendees at the Congress on Healthcare Leadership will have an opportunity to learn more about how to make the most of engaging with chapters.
The Chapter Relations team will be in the Solutions Center to answer questions about chapters, and attendees will learn more about volunteer openings available in their own chapter. Plus, there will be district meet-and-greets for attendees to network.
For more information about local chapters, please contact Stacey A. Kidd, CAE, director, Chapter Relations, Department of Executive Engagement, at skidd@ache.org.
Join the CMS Administrator for a National Stakeholder Call Tomorrow
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and her leadership team are inviting national stakeholders to join them for a call Tuesday, Jan. 24, from 1–2 p.m. Eastern time. The call will highlight CMS’ key 2022 accomplishments and look ahead to how their 2023 priorities will advance the CMS Strategic Plan. It will also provide national stakeholders an opportunity to learn more about how they can partner with CMS to help implement its Strategic Plan and key initiatives. Held quarterly, this will be the first national stakeholder call with the CMS administrator this year.
RSVP here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the call.