- Program Spotlight:
Earn Education Credits in New York This August - Advancing Diverse Executives in 2023 and Beyond
- ACHE Call for Nominations for the 2024 Slate
- Managing Healthcare Ethically Book Bundle
- The Fund for Healthcare Leadership: Helping Others Reach Their Goals
- Addressing Disparities in U.S. Health This Juneteenth
Program Spotlight:
Earn Education Credits in New York This August
Today’s healthcare leaders face manifold challenges, including workforce issues, driving quality and performance, and navigating the current regulatory landscape. This August, join your colleagues at 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. Maximize your education by selecting multiple sessions and earn up to 24 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits toward FACHE® advancement or recertification. When you leave the Big Apple, you’ll be equipped with new perspectives, best practices, tactics and solutions you can immediately implement in your own organization. Following are a selection of seminars you can choose from:
One-Day Seminars (6 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits)
- Gain skills to lead purposefully and effectively during “Cracking the Healthcare Leadership Code: How Purpose, Humility, and Accessibility Can Transform Your Organization” (Aug. 8).
- When you attend “Collaborative Negotiations for Health Care Providers and Leaders” (Aug. 10), you’ll review common negotiation strategies, with a focus on collaboration and practice skills learned through interactive, case-based, small-group exercises.
Two-Day Seminars (12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits)
- “Leadership for Cost-Saving, Climate-Smart and Quality Healthcare” (Aug. 7–8) will provide an overview of resilient and sustainable healthcare delivery and equip participants with tangible opportunities to deploy cost-saving and quality-improvement solutions. Participants will also gain access to an invitation-only quarterly roundtable with ACHE and The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University.
- During “More Than Words: Leveraging Governance and Partnerships to Advance Health Equity” (Aug. 9–10), participants will discover key opportunities to partner with community groups, public health departments, major employers and health plans as an integral part of their health equity playbook.
- Attendees of “When and How to Achieve Value in the Pursuit of Value-Based Agreements” (Aug. 7–8) will learn how to evaluate when to transition to targeting patients under value-based agreements from pursuing patients covered under fee-for-service arrangements.
Visit ache.org/NewYork to learn more and register.
Advancing Diverse Executives in 2023 and Beyond
Meet the 62 scholars selected for ACHE’s 2023 Thomas C. Dolan Executive Diversity Program (12) and Career Accelerator Program (50), who come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Over 300 high-caliber executives applied for these prestigious national programs, which provide education, mentoring and networking experiences to prepare diverse leaders for higher-level positions in hospitals, health systems and other settings.
This year, the Thomas C. Dolan Executive Diversity Program will consist of three in-person sessions and multiple virtual sessions, including live and recorded webinars, coaching and self-study materials. The Career Accelerator Program is exclusively virtual, consisting of 14 live sessions. Diversity scholars are empowered through a structured curriculum and activities that cultivate strong leadership presence; sharpen expertise in diversity, equity and inclusion; build critical leadership skills; and expand one’s capacity to navigate career opportunities and challenges. Both programs are six months in duration and are wholly funded by the Fund for Healthcare Leadership.
Visit ache.org/DiversityPrograms to learn more about the 2023 diversity programs and scholars.
ACHE Call for Nominations for the 2024 Slate
ACHE’s 2023–2024 Nominating Committee is calling for applications for service beginning in 2024. ACHE Fellows are eligible for the Chair-Elect and Governor vacancies, as well as 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 2026).
- Nominating Committee Member, District 4 (two-year term ending in 2026).
- Nominating Committee Member, District 5 (two-year term ending in 2026).
- Four Governors (three-year terms ending in 2027).
- Chair-Elect.
Applications to serve and self-nominations must be submitted electronically to krock@ache.org and must be received by July 28. All correspondence should be addressed to Carrie Owen Plietz, FACHE, chair, Nominating Committee, c/o Kim Rock, 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 Kim Rock at (312) 424-9375 or krock@ache.org.
Managing Healthcare Ethically Book Bundle
The numerous and complex issues that healthcare executives encounter every day are an intrinsic part of organizational life. Many of these issues have significant ethical dimensions. Edited by Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH, LFACHE, and William A. Nelson, PhD, HFACHE, the three separate volumes that constitute the third edition of Managing Healthcare Ethically build upon the two previous editions.
Leadership Roles and Responsibilities, the first of these three volumes, highlights issues leaders encounter in ensuring ethical performance in both their organizations and the communities they serve. Organizational Concerns, the second volume, focuses on how a healthcare organization’s ethical decisions and actions affect its operational and overall mission. The third volume, Clinical Challenges, looks at dilemmas that occur in caring for individual patients and groups of patients in today’s changing clinical environment.
Order this three-volume bundle of books at the discounted rate of $58. The bundle is excluded from all other sales and discounts.
The Fund for Healthcare Leadership: Helping Others Reach Their Goals
“Kaiser Permanente is proud to support the Fund for Healthcare Leadership and help build an inclusive pipeline of talented future healthcare leaders,” said Yvette Radford, vice president, External & Community Affairs, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif., in ACHE’s Spring 2023 Leadership Report.
Through contributions to the American College of Healthcare Executive’s Fund for Healthcare Leadership, donors play a large role in ACHE’s mission to advance our members and healthcare leadership excellence. Since 2006, generous contributors like Kaiser Permanente have helped strengthen the field of healthcare management by funding scholarships and programs that challenge, develop and inspire today’s and tomorrow’s leaders.
For example, the Fund wholly supports the Thomas C. Dolan Executive Diversity Program, created to honor Thomas C. Dolan, FACHE, CAE, who served as president and CEO of ACHE from 1991 to 2013, for his commitment to achieving greater diversity among senior healthcare leaders. In 2021, ACHE introduced the Career Accelerator Program, which supports the advancement of diverse mid-careerists.
The Fund also provides scholarships for those whose organizations may lack the resources to fully fund their tuition to attend educational offerings such as ACHE’s Executive Programs, which offer extensive and immersive programs for aspiring leaders.
“To meet the increasingly diverse needs of our patients and communities, and improve health outcomes, it is critical to have healthcare leaders with diverse perspectives and lived experiences,” Radford said.
To learn more about the Fund’s impact and our donors, please visit ache.org/Fund.
Addressing Disparities in U.S. Health This Juneteenth
“As her gaze searches for mine, questioning and uncertain, my response is one of calm reassurance,” writes Nwando Eze, MD, FACHE, regional medical director, neonatology, The Permanente Medical Group. “This is what I’ve been trained to do as a neonatal ICU doctor—give truth, however unpleasant, wrapped in care, assurance and kindness. But even as I present a self-assured front to Yolanda, inside, I do question if this assurance is true. Can I really deliver on this promise that her son’s treatment will be free of implicit bias? Will it be free from other components of institutional racism leading to health disparities? Just because I’ve decided to be conscious and intentional about identifying and avoiding implicit bias in my practice, does it make a difference in Anthony’s life if we do not all decide to make a change, together, as a healthcare system?”
Eze grapples with these questions in an ACHE Blog post, written to remember Juneteenth, considered by many as our country’s second Independence Day, and to underscore the disparities in health outcomes that Black patients in the U.S. health system face.
Juneteenth, which marks the moment in history when the last of enslaved African Americans in Texas learned they were free, represents the freedom that we, as a nation, have achieved. Despite the freedom and opportunity that Juneteenth represents, “our healthcare system remains in bondage to structural and institutionalized racism and implicit biases, leading to pervasive healthcare disparities that cripple the health of not just racial and ethnic minorities, but our entire nation,” Eze writes.
Visit ache.org/Blog to read Eze’s full blog post and to learn more about the work needed to address persistent health disparities.