Newsletter

June 14, 2021

 

 

Program Spotlight:

Find a Course That Meets Your Needs This Summer 

With summer upon us, it’s time to plan your professional development for the next several months and earn ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits virtually while you’re at it. We have a full schedule of our popular Virtual Face-to-Face Courses scheduled throughout the summer that address a variety of trending topics for healthcare leaders. For example, “Leading in a Changing Environment: Population Health” will examine how organizations are changing to move into a capitated population health environment. Or, if you’re interested in leading, managing or innovating with ambulatory healthcare delivery systems, “Optimizing Ambulatory Management for the 21st Century” will discuss the operational competencies needed to manage these care models successfully.

As the U.S. healthcare system undergoes profound transformation, leaders must adapt and evolve. “Leading Strategic Change” will help attendees make solid decisions and optimize strategic changes when faced with uncertainty. Similarly, “Agility & Resilience in Healthcare Leadership: Key Behaviors for Leading Change” will identify key leadership attributes that promote agility and resilience.

Need to improve your executive-level presentation? “Never Be Boring: Present Like a Pro” will help with that. Need to know more about the financial management of your operations? “Key Financial Principles for the Nonfinancial Healthcare Executive” will help you gain a deeper understanding of how to work with finance leaders. For execs who need new and creative leadership approaches and strategies to encourage innovative thinking within their teams, “Possibilities, Probabilities and Creative Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking for Complex Environments” is the course for them.

Last, but certainly not least, we are offering two Virtual Board of Governors Exam Review Courses this summer (July 13–Aug. 19 and Aug. 24–Sept. 30) for those pursuing their FACHE® credential. And, these interactive, virtual courses will help you earn the Face-to-Face Education credits you’ll need for FACHE advancement and recertification.

This summer, find a course that meets your professional development needs.

Call for Nominations for the 2022 Slate 

ACHE’s 2021–2022 Nominating Committee is calling for applications for service beginning in 2022. ACHE Fellows are eligible for any of the Governor and Chairman-Elect vacancies and are eligible for the Nominating Committee vacancies within their districts. Those interested in pursuing applications should review the candidate guidelines for the competencies and qualifications required for these important roles. Open positions on the slate include:

  • Nominating Committee Member, District 1 (two-year term ending in 2024).
  • Nominating Committee Member, District 4 (two-year term ending in 2024).
  • Nominating Committee Member, District 5 (two-year term ending in 2024).
  • Four Governors (three-year terms ending in 2025).
  • Chairman-Elect.

Applications to serve and self-nominations must be submitted electronically to jnolan@ache.org and must be received by July 15. All correspondence should be addressed to Heather J. Rohan, FACHE, chairman, Nominating Committee, c/o Julie Nolan, American College of Healthcare Executives, 300 S. Riverside Plaza, Ste. 1900, Chicago, IL 60606-6698. To review the Candidate Guidelines, visit ache.org/CandidateGuidelines. If you have any questions, please contact Julie Nolan at (312) 424-9367 or jnolan@ache.org.

Recent Grads Can Transfer to Full Membership for Free

Now through Aug. 30, Student Associates can transfer to full membership free of charge and experience all the benefits of being a Member. Full membership means automatically belonging to ACHE’s Early Careerist Network, being able to begin accruing Member tenure toward the one-year requirement to become a Fellow and participating in ACHE’s Leader-to-Leader Rewards Program. Recent graduates can jumpstart their career today by visiting My ACHE to transfer to Member status. Visit ache.org/Students for more information about transferring. 

Study Effective Strategy Execution at Your Own Pace 

With healthcare strategy today becoming broader and more community-centered, many competing organizations share similar strategies. Skillful strategy execution will be a key to success in the future, and one of our new Digital Self-Study Courses will help improve your skill in implementing your organization’s goals. “Effective Strategy Execution” is based on Health Administration Press book Making It Happen: Effective Execution in Healthcare Leadership and taught by author Daniel B. McLaughlin. This course, worth up to 6 ACHE Qualified Education credit hours, will help you develop strategies that are optimized for effective execution at your own pace. For more information about Digital Self-Study Courses, visit ache.org/SelfStudy. For any questions, please email selfstudy@ache.org. 

Methods to Assist With Reentry of Retired Clinicians 

Although recently retired clinicians should be able to easily take on roles they successfully managed before retirement, experts say creative integration will be needed. In this exclusive web extra, Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH, LFACHE, and Douglas Van Houten, RN, expand on guidance offered in their recent “Healthcare Management Ethics” column about the ethical and operational challenges of recruiting retired clinicians to support exhausted healthcare professionals. They say creative integration will be key to allowing returning personnel—especially those who have been retired for a longer time—to assume less rigorous roles that still provide relief to current physicians and staff.

Visit HealthcareExecutive.org/WebExtras for more fresh, exclusive content.

CMS to Hold Physician Fee Schedule Town Hall Wednesday  

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is holding a town hall this week to gather feedback from stakeholders who are interested in its physician payment policies. The town hall will address improving practice expense data and methods for the Physician Fee Schedule. CMS has not changed the data and methodology for practice expense payments under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for over a decade. The RAND Corporation is researching approaches to collect new data, along with potential changes to the current allocation system for CMS, and it is seeking feedback on the following three topics:

  • How to collect data going forward, including how frequently to gather new data and encourage participation by sampled practices.
  • How to collect and report data by specialty, including how to identify groups with similar cost structures.
  • How to refine the current rate-setting system, such as reducing the dependence on specialty-level measures.

Town hall materials offer more details on each topic. If you are interested in providing verbal comments, please email CMSPETownHall@rand.org to let CMS and RAND know which topic you’d like to address. You can also send written comments. Participants can call in or stream the audio for this event. Those who would like to provide verbal comments will need to dial in.

You can register here for this event, which is scheduled to take place June 16, 1–4 p.m. Eastern time.