- Program Spotlight:
Earn Education Credits in New York Next Week - Popular Reads Available as Audiobooks
- Changing Behaviors: Addressing the Rise in Mental Health Needs
- Driven by Compassion
- CMS Continues Work on Behavioral Health
- Correctional Healthcare Conference Coming to Las Vegas
Program Spotlight:
Earn Education Credits in New York Next Week
Today’s healthcare leaders face manifold challenges, including workforce issues, driving quality and performance, and navigating the current regulatory landscape. Join your colleagues in the Big Apple next week for ACHE’s New York Cluster to gain the knowledge and skills needed to meet today’s most pressing challenges.
From Monday, Aug. 7, to Thursday, Aug. 10, you can choose from a selection of intensive one-day programs or interactive two-day seminars that dive deep into the topics that impact your day, including a complimentary education session offered by one of ACHE’s Premier Corporate Partners, Quest Diagnostics: “Offense Is the Best Defense: Early Cancer Detection and the History of Precision Medicine.”
Attendees of this one-hour session (4–5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 7, and Wednesday, Aug. 9), can earn 1 ACHE Qualified Education credit while learning about the history of cancer diagnostics and various types of treatments that have evolved throughout the years. Expert speaker Jim Godsey, PhD, vice president, molecular genomics and oncology, and chief scientific officer, Quest Diagnostics, will focus on the advent and effects of targeted and immuno-oncology, and he’ll explain the importance of early cancer detection and the success rates for surgical treatments of early-stage cancer. A networking reception will immediately follow both sessions from 5–6 p.m.
Maximize your education by selecting multiple sessions and earn up to 24 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits toward FACHE® advancement or recertification. You’ll leave equipped with new perspectives, best practices, tactics and solutions you can immediately implement in your own organization. Visit ache.org/NewYork to learn more and register.
Popular Reads Available as Audiobooks
Did you know that you can listen to some of your favorite Health Administration Press titles in an audiobook format? Leaders of all career stages will benefit from listening to the unabridged Leading With Your Upper Brain: How to Create the Behaviors That Unlock Performance Excellence. Each chapter of this new title written by Michael E. Frisina, PhD, and Robert Frisina, offers key takeaways, tips, resources and thought-provoking questions that will help leaders shift their behavior and that of their team members.
Readers at all levels of the healthcare leadership continuum will also enjoy the audiobook version of the unabridged Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders, a James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award winner. Through stories, interviews and research findings, Amer Kaissi, PhD, professor of healthcare administration at Trinity University, offers an engaging exploration of evidence-based practices from an array of leaders in different settings.
For those in the early stages of becoming a healthcare leader, you’ll find The Emerging Healthcare Leader: A Field Guide, Second Edition, also unabridged, to be an essential resource. Packed with tactics, tips and illuminating examples, this audiobook will become an indispensable guide to building your career in healthcare leadership.
Get your audiobook copies of Leading With Your Upper Brain, Intangibles, The Emerging Healthcare Leader and other titles today.
Changing Behaviors: Addressing the Rise in Mental Health Needs
Healthcare CEOs who responded to ACHE’s 2022 Top Issues survey ranked behavioral health and addiction third on a list of 11 concerns, behind workforce challenges and financial pressure. That’s ahead of such perennial and still very pressing issues as patient safety and quality, governmental mandates, access to care and patient satisfaction.
To address the rise in behavioral and mental health needs, hospital and health system executives are trying to grow and support mental health services by making robust use of their leadership positions to speak up and ensure that services are accessible. “It’s powerful to hear the leader of the healthcare system talk about the importance of integrating physical and mental healthcare together, and then resourcing it,” says Stephen Merz, FACHE, in a July/August Healthcare Executive feature article. Merz is COO of Sheppard Pratt Solutions, a recently formed consulting division of Sheppard Pratt, one of the nation’s oldest psychiatric hospitals, founded in 1853.
Visit HealthcareExecutive.org to discover how Merz and other healthcare providers are improving access to care, advocating for more complete insurance coverage and working to reduce the stigma around mental healthcare.
Driven by Compassion
“One of the most valuable leadership styles is servant leadership, which derives its philosophy from the basics of compassionate communication and emotional intelligence,” writes Dave Zechman, LFACHE, in a recent ACHE Blog post. “It ensures a leader’s team members feel heard, seen and valued. This is proven to yield higher levels of job performance as well as outstanding personal and organizational results. Most importantly, it’s just the right thing to do,” says Zechman, an author, executive coach, consultant, frequent speaker and retired hospital CEO.
Visit ache.org/Blog to read about the eight core leadership values that Zechman highlights in his blog post.
CMS Continues Work on Behavioral Health
Addressing the nation’s behavioral health crisis is a key priority for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. As such, CMS has updated its Behavioral Health Cross-cutting Initiative fact sheet to share recent accomplishments and proposals in the behavioral health domains of coverage and access to care, quality of care, equity and engagement, and data and analytics.
For example, within the coverage and access to care domain, CMS took steps to help alleviate the widespread provider shortages the country is experiencing, including proposing changes in law allowing marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors to enroll in and bill Medicare. In the quality of care domain, CMS announced plans to create a “universal foundation” of quality measures to ensure that care is targeted and focuses providers’ attention on meaningful measures across CMS quality programs. This will allow for the identification of disparities, cross-program comparisons and identification of measurement gaps for behavioral health, care coordination and person-centered care.
Read the full fact sheet and a recent CMS blog post to learn more.
Correctional Healthcare Conference Coming to Las Vegas
Join the National Commission on Correctional Health Care Sept. 30–Oct. 4 in Las Vegas for its National Conference on Correctional Health Care. With 100 educational presentations, as well as preconference seminars, a keynote session, annual awards and more, attendees can earn continuing education hours while learning from leaders with practical experience in healthcare delivery in jails, prisons and juvenile detention facilities. Participants can build their network and connect with people who face similar challenges, including clinicians, leaders and administrators from small, medium and large facilities throughout the United States. Learn more and register today—early bird registration ends Aug. 25.
ACHE is a supporting organization of the NCCHC.