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June 15, 2020

Leadership Spotlight: Montefiore Health System Leaders Share COVID-19 Response 

Join front-line healthcare leaders June 18 for a free interactive webinar to learn how Montefiore Health System, which serves New York communities in Westchester County, the lower Hudson Valley and the Bronx, has been navigating the coronavirus crisis. Jeffrey B. Short, vice president/chief of staff, and Adrin Mammen, FACHE, associate vice president, patient access transformation, Montefiore Medical Center, will discuss digital innovations as a result of COVID-19 that will carry forward into the “new normal,” as well as understanding consumer and workforce needs that have resulted from the digital approaches used during the pandemic. They will also address telehealth as a transformative response to COVID-19 and reopening strategies required in the new healthcare environment.

This webinar, eligible for 1 ACHE Qualified Education credit, is the latest in the ACHE webinar series with front-line leaders sharing executive insights about their organizations’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. For more thought leadership, including recordings of previous webinars and other resources and tools to help guide you through these unprecedented times, please visit ache.org/COVID. 

2021 Call for Nominations

ACHE's 2020–2021 Nominating Committee is calling for applications for service beginning in 2021. ACHE Fellows are eligible for any of the Governor and Chairman-Elect vacancies and Nominating Committee vacancies within their district. 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 2 (two-year term ending in 2023)
  • Nominating Committee Member, District 3 (two-year term ending in 2023)
  • Nominating Committee Member, District 6 (two-year term ending in 2023)
  • Four Governors (three-year terms ending in 2024)
  • 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 David A. Olson, 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. 

Post-Coronavirus: The Path Forward

Healthcare leaders should strategically consider how to transform and reinvent health services given the new normal. Many organizations are now moving from managing incident command teams that care for COVID-19 patients to managing the financial implications of the pandemic to their organizations. This pandemic has created unexpected consequences for the healthcare delivery system, and many interim measures will likely become a part of the new normal for healthcare providers.

The demand for service, disruption in supply chains and chronic cash shortfalls are examples of COVID-19 consequences that a second surge of COVID-19 cases would make even more permanent. The business imperative is to rethink your service lines and expense posture. These decisions may be radical and could become lasting features of operations. Successful organizations will rely on the science of management and resist letting intuition guide decisions. The ability to use data and information will be critical to empower teams and keep providers adaptable.

This is an unprecedented time in healthcare, during which boards and C-suite executives have a unique opportunity to truly transform their organizations. The pandemic has highlighted how agile, nimble, efficient and innovative organizations can be. Now is the time to use these lessons learned to create your path forward to the new normal. The key to success will be to design a plan that is agile and has well-defined priorities and goals for what will evolve into a long-term recovery plan.

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CMS: Reopening of Facilities Encouraged

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a guide for patients and beneficiaries as they consider their in-person care options. During the height of the pandemic, many healthcare systems and patients postponed nonemergency, in-person care to keep patients and providers safe and to ensure capacity to care for COVID-19 patients. As states and regions across the United States see a decline in cases of COVID-19, CMS is providing these recommendations to ensure that nonemergency healthcare resumes safely, and that patients are receiving needed in-person treatment that may have been postponed due to the public health emergency.

As the country continues to reopen, patients have questions about when to resume in-person visits with their clinicians. To aid patients in making a decision that is right for them, CMS issued recommendations to help guide patients as they consider seeking in-person, nonemergency treatment. Ultimately, patients should rely on their providers’ suggested course of treatment.

For more information, visit: CMS recommendations: Re-opening facilities to provide nonemergent, non-COVID-19 healthcare.

Online Seminar: Health Law Essentials

Health law is a vast and complex field. Online seminar Health Law Essentials will highlight the most crucial information for busy healthcare executives. Over six weeks, Sarah F. Fontenot, JD, health law professor at Trinity University, will facilitate learning by explaining legal issues within a broader context while encouraging interaction and discussion among participants. C-suite and senior executives, as well as clinical leaders and risk managers, are encouraged to take this online seminar, worth 9 ACHE Qualified Education credits. Register today. 

New Book: Your Healthcare Job Hunt

Did you know that more than half of employers won’t hire a candidate who doesn’t have an online presence? Your Healthcare Job Hunt: How Your Digital Presence Can Make or Break Your Career is a new title from Health Administration Press that explains how job seekers in healthcare can use the internet to find the perfect opportunity. For example, Chapter 1, offered as a free excerpt, explains how your digital profile should reflect who you are professionally, and that understanding what exists online about you is the first step toward improving your online persona.  

Order this book today and discover information, tools and online resources that can help you stand out and maximize your career advancement opportunities.