Seattle Cluster, Aug. 19–22
Register- Career Spotlight: Enhance Your Self-Awareness
- Podcast: A New Generation of Healthcare Leaders
- First of Three Education Sessions Explore Change Leadership, Innovation
- Help Shape ACHE's Policy Statements
- Early Careerist Bundle Builds Healthcare Management Careers
- Last Chance to Experience Healthcare Innovation in France
Career Spotlight:
Enhance Your Self-Awareness
Effective career management begins with knowing yourself. Assess your professional skills with the Career Resource Center.
The Career Resource Center offers tools specifically for healthcare leaders to support professional growth and career advancement. Access an array of assessments to enhance your self-awareness and gain a competitive edge in the healthcare marketplace. Assessment topics include emotional intelligence, conflict management and change management leadership.
For more information about assessments and career resources, visit ache.org/CareerServices.
Podcast: A New Generation of Healthcare Leaders
In this Healthcare Executive podcast, Alan B. Keesee, FACHE, discusses being the on-call administrator at a Nevada hospital the night of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting—the deadliest in U.S. history. The recipient of the 2019 Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year and CEO, Capital Regional Medical Center, Tallahassee, Fla., Keesee offers advice to young leaders as they aspire to the C-suite, such as discovering your capabilities and competencies and soliciting performance feedback regularly from leadership.
First of Three Education Sessions Explore Change Leadership, Innovation
Thirty-five healthcare executives gathered in Chicago last month for the first of three Senior Executive Program and Executive Program sessions.
ACHE faculty Kevin E. O’Connor, CSP, a consultant with Kevin E. O’Connor & Associates Ltd., kicked off the first session with his presentation on change leadership, “Change Is Good: You Go First.”
The second day of the session included site visits to Rush University Medical Center, where staff spoke about the visitation management program, emergency disaster response and the use of automated guided vehicles in the hospital’s supply chain; and to the American Hospital Association, where staff spoke about the association’s advocacy efforts. Program participants capped off the day with a tour of ACHE and a networking reception.
Senior Executive Program participants ended their third and final day of the session with an interactive site visit and panel discussion at MATTER Chicago, an innovation incubator. There, the cohort learned about Chicago-based healthcare software and digital health startups.
The second session will take place in San Diego, Aug. 19–21. There, the 2019 SEP/EP cohort will explore a San Diego County Health and Human Services population health model.
Interested in joining the 2020 Senior Executive or Executive Programs and earning over 45 (EP) or 50 (SEP) ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits? Mark your calendars now for next year’s sessions scheduled to take place June 15–17, 2020; Aug. 10–12, 2020; and Oct. 26–28, 2020. More information about the 2020 opportunities will be available soon.
Help Shape ACHE's Policy Statements
Each year, select Policy Statements are reviewed to ensure their continued relevance to the field. Many of these statements are derived directly from comments you have shared with us. For that reason, we are asking for your input. Please take a moment to read the seven Policy Statements, including one Ethical Policy Statement, under review this year:
- Adopting a Systematic Approach to Bringing Healthcare Executives Into a New Position or Organization
- Decisions Near the End of Life
- Organ/Tissue/Blood/Blood Stem Cells Donation Process
- Responsibility for Mentoring
- Strengthening Healthcare Employment Opportunities for Persons With Disabilities
- The Role of the Healthcare Executive of a Nonprofit Entity in a Change in Organizational Ownership or Control
- Appropriate Preparation for Healthcare Executive Management Positions for All New Entrants to the Field
Please submit your comments to PolicyReview@ache.org. The deadline for submitting comments is July 29, 2019. The Board of Governors will discuss these statements and any recommended revisions during its November meeting. The revised statements will be posted on ache.org by the end of the year.
Early Careerist Bundle Builds Healthcare Management Careers
It can be difficult for leaders to navigate the complex world of healthcare at any age, but particularly so for early careerists. Now, up-and-coming executives can save on essential reading with ACHE’s Early Careerist Bundle from Health Administration Press. The Early Careerist Bundle, which consists of two career books at a discounted price of $55 for both, offers a number of useful tools, resources and information to help build a lifelong career in healthcare management.
The bundle includes Emerging Healthcare Leader: A Field Guide, Second Edition, and Take Charge of Your Healthcare Management Career: 50 Lessons That Drive Success.
Buy this bundle today and save.
Last Chance to Experience Healthcare Innovation in France
Tickets are still available for the International Hospital Federation’s 2019 Hospital and Health Executives Study Tour, which will take place in Paris, Sept. 16–20. The tour, “Health Innovation and Neighborhood: Towards New Health Service Model,” will provide participants with in-depth insight into the latest innovations in healthcare delivery models developed in France.
Intended for hospital leaders and decision makers from around the world, the tour will include networking opportunities, meetings with and presentations delivered by senior health officials, and site visits to hospitals and public institutions. For more information, please visit the IHF website and/or download the study tour brochure.
You are encouraged to register as soon as possible as a limited quantity of tickets for the study tour remain and ticket sales end on July 31. IHF members are entitled to a discounted rate.
In the meantime, check out the most recent issue of IHF’s World Hospitals and Health Services journal to learn more about recent trends in competencies in healthcare management training and accreditation programs.