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June 10, 2019

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Program Spotlight:

Make the Most of Your Time This Summer 

Need someone to help keep you focused on your career goals during the summer months? Look no further than ACHE’s Executive Coaches Directory.

June, July and August can be a little less hectic for some healthcare executives, making it an ideal time to focus on career goals. The ACHE Executive Coaches Directory’s search capabilities allow you to quickly identify an executive coach who can support your professional growth or the career development of your team.

For more information about the Executive Coaches Directory and other career resources, visit ache.org/ExecCoach.

Managing Behavioral Healthcare Needs

This July, join us in New York at a new seminar for creating access to comprehensive, behavioral healthcare services. When you attend “Behavioral Health Challenges, Strategies and Solutions: The Business Case for Meeting Community Needs,” you can earn 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits.

With national suicide and addiction rates surging and overdose deaths a familiar headline in many communities, managing access to and cost of behavioral healthcare is becoming a top concern for the healthcare provider community.

Join expert ACHE faculty Howard J. Gershon, LFACHE, founding principal, New Heights Group, Santa Fe, N.M.; Leslie S. Zun, MD, medical director, Lake County Health Department, Waukegan, Ill.; and Stephen M. Merz, FACHE, president and CEO, Maine Behavioral Healthcare, South Portland, Maine, as they share proven solutions that address behavioral healthcare challenges.

This seminar will be offered during the New York Cluster, July 29–Aug. 1; the San Diego Cluster, Nov. 4–7; and as a Choice program.

FACHE® Recertification: It’s Never Too Early to Begin Planning

Earning the distinction of board certification in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow is a great career accomplishment. Whether you are one of the many members set to recertify this year or within the next three years, you can get a head start now to maintain this prestigious credential.

To ensure that all Fellows maintain the integrity of the ACHE credentialing program, Fellows are required to recertify every three years.

To continue demonstrating your professionalism, ethical decision making, competence, leadership and commitment to lifelong learning, please be sure to recertify your FACHE credential by Dec. 31.

Visit My ACHE to check your recertification status, including the current number of continuing education credit hours you have earned so far.


Blog: A Tailored Safety Approach

Culture change is a challenging undertaking for healthcare organizations. With Choice, topics like quality and safety can be tailored to your educational needs.

Just as the resource Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success helps healthcare organizations create safety programs specific to their needs, Choice helps organizations tailor professional development programs, seminars and assessments to meet learning needs or close competency gaps.

A recent blog post details the options available to your organization through Choice, and offers information about ACHE’s Leading for Safety initiative.


Workforce Management Strategies to Meet Future Challenges

Managing a diverse workforce helps healthcare leaders prepare for an unpredictable future, according to a feature article in the summer 2019 issue of Frontiers of Health Services Management. The entire issue examines how effective healthcare workforce management can drive transformation.

In the feature, “Managing Today’s Workforce to Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges,” Patricia Golden Webb, FACHE, senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer for CommonSpirit Health in Englewood, Colo., provides valuable recommendations for managing talent, leadership, technology and culture.

In a commentary also in this issue, Dennis J. Kain, FACHE, senior vice president of Tyler & Company Inc., Chadds Ford, Pa., urges healthcare leaders to face the immediate workforce crisis by reinforcing the foundational role of human resources and then giving employees the help they need to succeed.

Read more from the new Frontiers to learn about ways in which organizations can engage one of their greatest assets—human resources.

Need to Learn More About Organ Donation and Transplantation?

The Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance is hosting a free webinar next month to introduce viewers to the diverse programs The Alliance provides to improve donation and transplantation outcomes for organizations across the country. The webinar, “The Alliance 101: Get to Know Us!” will be held July 10, 3–4 p.m. Central time.

The Alliance is the recognized leader within the organ donation and transplantation community dedicated to providing engaged learning, innovation and collaborative leadership for future advancements in organ donation and transplantation.

Register today!