- Program Spotlight:
Earn Education Credits in Austin This October - Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Shortage
- Leadership for Cost-Saving, Climate-Smart and Quality Healthcare
- We Asked Women: What’s the Story Behind Your Door?
- Join HHS for a Webinar About Involving Patients and Families in Safety
- CMS Seeks Volunteers for Hospital Price Transparency Validator Tool Testing
Program Spotlight:
Earn Education Credits in Austin This October
To be successful in today’s ever-changing environment, healthcare leaders are required to manage costs effectively, promote workforce well-being to deter burnout and fill open roles, develop new leaders, improve access to care and adopt new ways of thinking. From administrative staff to CEOs, the Austin Cluster, Oct. 2–3, is designed to provide healthcare professionals with the knowledge, tools and skills necessary to meet today’s most pressing challenges.
At the Austin Cluster, you’ll attend in-depth, interactive seminars developed by respected healthcare experts and build lasting connections with other healthcare professionals who share your values, including the following:
- During “Transform Your Health System to Thrive—Now and in the Future,” instructors will help you and your colleagues examine the dynamic future of healthcare through presentation, interactive discussion and case studies. You’ll learn new skills, build a portfolio of ideas and uncover significant opportunities to improve your organization’s strategy and operations.
- “The Human Margin: Foundations of Trust” features experts who will translate decades of employee satisfaction research intro evidence-based strategies you can use to successfully improve—and sustain a thriving workforce.
This event is an opportunity to improve your leadership skills, gain confidence in making critical decisions and bring innovative solutions back to your organization, all while earning up to 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits toward FACHE® advancement or recertification, as well as interprofessional continuing education credits. Visit ache.org/Austin to learn more and register.
Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Shortage
Faced with an already significant workforce shortage that was only exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare leaders have no choice but to tackle this pressing issue. Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Shortage: How to Safeguard Your Organization’s Most Important Asset provides simple, practical and proven strategies for healthcare leaders trying to overcome their workforce challenges. Authors Tresha D. Moreland, FACHE, and Lori Wightman, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, identify six key levers, such as shaping a better workplace culture, that executives can use to address shortages within their own organizations, and examine new problems posed by the pandemic.
Learn more and order your copy today.
Leadership for Cost-Saving, Climate-Smart and Quality Healthcare
In the latest episode of the Healthcare Executive Podcast, Attila Hertelendy, PhD, associate professor, Florida International University/adjunct associate professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, shares how healthcare executives can deliver resilient and sustainable healthcare to their communities.
Hertelendy will be presenting a two-day session (Aug. 7–8) worth 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits at the upcoming New York City Cluster, Aug. 7–10, on the same topic as the podcast episode. During the session, Hertelendy and co-presenter, Cecilia Sorenson, MD, associate professor/director, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Columbia University, will equip participants with tangible opportunities to deploy cost savings and quality improvement solutions in their healthcare systems now.
Visit HealthcareExecutive.org/Podcast to listen to the episode with Hertelendy and previous discussions, insights and perspectives from knowledgeable names in healthcare management.
We Asked Women: What’s the Story Behind Your Door?
“What is standing in our way to be our authentic selves—to be at the top of our game, our life, our career, our aspirations?” write Elisabeth Fontaine, MD, and Jill Berry Bowen, RN, FACHE, in a new ACHE Blog post about women in leadership.
“What we have learned: To be seen as a leader in life and work, we first need to see it for ourselves. And as women, we need to support each other in community for our own success and that of the women around us,” they continue.
In their blog post, the founders of Let’s Lead LLC—which provides professional advising for healthcare leaders, physicians and clinicians—share some of the tools they’ve captured from the women they’ve coached to help open doors for other women striving for leadership in healthcare. Visit ache.org/Blog to learn more.
Join HHS for a Webinar About Involving Patients and Families in Safety
July 25, the National Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality are sponsoring a webinar, “Involving Patients and Families in Safety.” This webinar is part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ summer webinar series sponsored by the National Action Alliance—a public-private effort to support healthcare delivery systems’ move toward zero harm.
The learning of the National Action Alliance builds upon recognized frameworks such as Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety, with its four foundational areas of culture, leadership and governance; patient and family engagement; workforce safety; and creation of learning health systems. The national action plan, which includes recommendations for workforce safety, is the work of 27 federal agencies, safety organizations, experts and patient and family advocates, including ACHE. This resource and other tools, including Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success, are available on ache.org/Safety.
The HHS summer series will also include a webinar, “Engaging Boards and Executive Leadership in Safety,” Aug. 22, sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Visit the National Action Alliance webpage to learn more and to register for the webinar series.
CMS Seeks Volunteers for Hospital Price Transparency Validator Tool Testing
Volunteers are needed to test a new validator tool for voluntary sample formats that hospitals may use to make their standard charges public in a machine-readable file. If you’re interested, contact the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at TalkToUs@CMS.hhs.gov with “HPT Validator Tool Testing” in the subject line. You don’t need to currently use a sample format to volunteer.
Effective Jan. 1, 2021, each hospital operating in the United States is required to provide publicly accessible standard charge information online for the items and services they provide. Hospital providers may opt to use a voluntary sample format to meet this requirement. Visit Hospital Price Transparency to learn more.
CMS is also hosting a webinar July 26 to review voluntary sample formats you may use to make your standard charges public in a machine-readable file. During the webinar, CMS will present sample formats that use a standardized set of data elements and a new validator tool you can use to test the accuracy of your file. See Hospital Price Transparency Resources for sample formats and data dictionaries.
Register here for the webinar.