- PROGRAM Spotlight:
Elevate Your Leadership Competencies in Person - Reminder: Help Shape Our Policy Statements
- Today’s Leaders Explore Workforce Solutions
- Juneteenth: What If We Were All Free to be Healthy?
- CMS Encourages Providers to Discuss Preventive Services With Male Patients
- Correctional Mental Healthcare Conference Coming to Denver
Program Spotlight:
Elevate Your Leadership Competencies in Person
This summer, leaders can once again gather in person to advance their professional development through a blend of live instruction and opportunities to collaborate with peers. Upcoming events include the Executive Program and clusters in New York and Washington, D.C.
Executive Program
Beginning in July, Executive Program cohorts will meet in three different cities to attend a unique learning program. Designed to help the next generation of leaders prepare for the complex, ever-changing healthcare environment, this program consists of three intensive in-person sessions and virtual learning activities scheduled in between. Additionally, Executive Program participants will earn 42 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits. Check out individual module offerings in Chicago, July 25–27; Cleveland, Sept. 12–14; and Houston, Nov. 7–9.
Program attendance is limited to maintain an intimate learning environment. Visit ache.org/ExecutivePrograms to register and learn more.
New York Cluster
During the New York Cluster, July 25–28, participants can earn up to 24 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits while attending two-day seminars (worth 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits) and boot camps (worth 6 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits). Courses include the following:
- “Hospitals and Health Systems of the Future: Transforming to Thrive,” where attendees will engage with instructors and colleagues to examine the dynamic future of healthcare.
- The “Physician Executive Boot Camp,” designed for physicians who recently have moved to a physician executive position or those who are contemplating a move to a leadership position, introduces physicians to the concepts and strategies needed to bridge clinical expertise and management competence.
- “Applying Design Thinking to Healthcare’s Most Pressing Challenges” will help participants develop new skills for analyzing current business model challenges and crafting plausible future alternatives.
- During “Leading in a Changing Environment: Focus on Population Health,” expert faculty will present case studies that show various ways in which organizations are making the necessary changes to move into a capitated population health environment.
Washington, D.C., Cluster
Those interested in visiting the nation’s capital Aug. 22–23 for the Washington, D.C., Cluster can also choose from two-day workshops (worth 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits each) or an interactive boot camp (worth 6 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits). Courses include the following:
- “Service-Line Planning: Developing a Consumer-Based Approach to Providing Quality Care,” in which participants will evaluate individual service lines for growth opportunities.
- Available only for ACHE Fellows, “Mentor, Coach, Lead to Peak Professional Performance” will guide participants through didactic and interactive learnings to nurture their effective engagement as mentors, coaches and leaders while becoming well-mentored, coached and led by others.
Information about other regional clusters will be available soon. Save the dates and check back to learn more about upcoming events in Phoenix, Nashville, Tenn., and Orlando, Fla.
Reminder: Help Shape Our Policy Statements
Each year, select Policy Statements are reviewed to ensure their continued relevance to the field. Many of these statements are derived directly from comments you have shared with us. For that reason, we are asking for your input. Please take a moment to read the six Policy Statements, including three Ethical Policy Statements, under review this year:
- “Board Certification in Healthcare Management.”
- “Ethical Issues Related to a Reduction in Force.”
- “Ethical Issues Related to Staff Shortages.”
- “Impaired Healthcare Executives.”
- “The Healthcare Executive’s Role in Ensuring Quality and Patient Safety.”
- “The Healthcare Executive’s Responsibility for Professionalism.”
Please submit your comments to PolicyReview@ache.org. The deadline for submitting comments is June 30. The Board of Governors will discuss these statements and any recommended revisions during its November meeting. The revised statements will be posted on ache.org by the end of the year.
Today’s Leaders Explore Workforce Solutions
How are rural healthcare providers filling open positions amid persistent talent maldistribution? Jo Anne Preston shares strategies that work for Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative members in the summer Frontiers of Health Services Management, which focuses on healthcare workforce solutions.
In another article, Darlene Stromstad, FACHE, president and CEO of Mohawk Valley Health System, shares strategies for investing in the workforce and aggressively recruiting.
Meanwhile, Paul E. Neagle, FACHE, senior vice president at FastMed Urgent Care, presents the ambulatory response to the growing primary caregiver crisis: Engage and develop advance practice practitioners.
Visit ache.org/Journals to read these articles and more in the summer issue of Frontiers of Health Services Management.
Juneteenth: What If We Were All Free to be Healthy?
“In many ways, Juneteenth represents how freedom and justice in the U.S. have repeatedly been delayed for Black people,” writes Joe Wilkins Jr., FACHE.
Yesterday and today, our nation observed Juneteenth—the commemoration of June 19, 1865, the date enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free—two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. “In many ways, Juneteenth represents how freedom and justice in the U.S. have repeatedly been delayed for Black people,” writes Joe Wilkins Jr., FACHE, managing director, JW Healthcare Insights, in a recent ACHE Blog post. After the Civil War, Black Americans continued to face years of racial and social injustice that have created “the difficult human conditions that today are recognized as social determinants of poor health for Black Americans,” Wilkins writes.
The Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, of which Wilkins is a founding member and board director, was established to help close gaps in the U.S. healthcare system that contribute to the large disparity in health outcomes for the Black community. “The natural response for me was with the formation of our mission and role at Black Directors Health Equity Agenda to bring Black board directors and Black executives together from across the health ecosystem with healthcare providers, business leaders, governance leadership, policymakers and all health-focused organizations,” Wilkins writes.
Visit ache.org/Blog to read the full blog post and learn more about the important work that Wilkins and others are doing through the Black Directors Health Equity Agenda to address health disparities that impact Black communities and individuals.
CMS Encourages Providers to Discuss Preventive Services With Male Patients
During Men’s Health Week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking providers to encourage male patients to make their health a priority. Medicare covers preventive services, including:
- Alcohol misuse screening and counseling.
- Colorectal and prostate cancer screening.
- Screening tests and intensive behavioral therapy for cardiovascular disease.
- Counseling to prevent tobacco use.
- Intensive behavioral therapy for obesity.
Patients pay nothing if providers accept assignment, according to CMS. Providers can learn how to check eligibility for preventive services here. If they need help, CMS recommends providers contact their eligibility service provider.
Providers can find more information in the following resources:
- Medicare Preventive Services education tool.
- Coverage to Care Prevention Resources: See flyer for men in eight languages.
- Preventive & Screening Services webpage: Get information for your patients.
Correctional Mental Healthcare Conference Coming to Denver
Back in person for the first time in three years, the National Commission of Correctional Health Care’s Correctional Mental Health Care Conference is meeting Aug. 1–2 in Denver. With overdose deaths and suicides up, and an increase in staffing shortages and burnout, it’s a challenging time for incarcerated people, as well as leaders and healthcare staff of correctional institutions. The NCCHC’s conference presents an opportunity for clinicians and administrators with a variety of backgrounds and a focus on correctional mental healthcare to share information, ask questions and network. Learn more and register today.