- Program Spotlight:
A Conversation With Delvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, ACHE’s 2023–2024 Chair - A Model for Working in Today’s Healthcare Environment
- Explore EDCN: An Essential Resource for Diverse Healthcare Professionals
- Reminder: Join HHS for a Webinar Tomorrow on How to Prevent Workplace Violence
- Reminder: IHF Award Submissions Due June 30
- Accelerating Diverse Healthcare Leadership
Program Spotlight:
A Conversation With Delvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, ACHE’s 2023–2024 Chair
“The biggest thing is intentionality,” says Finley, president, Atrium Health Navicent, Macon, Ga., during a recent episode of the Healthcare Executive Podcast. When asked what organizations can do to remove barriers to improving diversity, equity and inclusion, he continues: “I think it’s like with anything else, whether we’re talking about diversity or whether we’re talking about improving quality or talking about any other sort of opportunity that we think stands between us and fulfilling our mission for the organization, first and foremost, but also their vision for what we believe that the organization can be or become, [it] takes an intentional effort or set of efforts to actually manifest it.”
Visit HealthcareExecutive.org/Podcast to hear more from Finley regarding diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare leadership, as well as advice he shares for emerging healthcare leaders and the issues to which he’s committed during his term as ACHE’s Board Chair.
In case you missed, it, be sure to read this profile of Finley in the March/April issue of Healthcare Executive magazine.
A Model for Working in Today’s Healthcare Environment
“The key to sustainable success within a [volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous] world is to create a corporate culture that allows all trustees, executives, physicians, nurses, clinicians and professional support personnel to express meaning and find purpose in their work,” writes Thomas A. Atchison, EdD, in Chapter 1 of his book Reigniting Employee Engagement: A Guide to Rediscovering Purpose and Meaning in Healthcare.
The winning title of the 2023 James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award—given annually to the author(s) of a management or healthcare book judged outstanding by ACHE’s Book of the Year Committee—this book presents a simple model for creating sustainable employee engagement, now more elusive than ever because of ongoing changes in healthcare delivery. Rising caregiver burnout is an especially critical issue, and this book provides a method for refocusing on basic human needs to reenergize the healthcare workforce.
Learn more about Atchison’s winning title and order your copy today.
Explore EDCN: An Essential Resource for Diverse Healthcare Professionals
Research and real-world experience confirm diversity at the highest ranks of healthcare management contributes to improved quality, equity and safe care for all people. However, the path to senior leadership roles can be fraught with challenges—particularly for healthcare professionals from racially and ethnically underrepresented groups and those who identify as LGBTQ+.
The Executive Diversity Career Navigator, also known as EDCN, helps healthcare leaders from underrepresented groups chart a career path to the highest levels of leadership. This centralized resource, a project of ACHE and five partner organizations, offers information, tools and inspiration for diverse leaders navigating their career paths to senior level positions.
Everyone from early careerists to senior executives can benefit from EDCN, which includes free access to most assets. Visit edcnavigator.org today and explore all that EDCN offers.
Reminder: Join HHS for a Webinar Tomorrow on How to Prevent Workplace Violence
Tuesday, June 27, the National Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention are sponsoring a webinar on how to address violence in the healthcare workplace. “Preventing Workplace Violence” will feature Cammie Chaumont Menendez, PhD, a research epidemiologist with the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Also participating will be front-line practitioners who are implementing violence prevention strategies across healthcare settings.
This webinar is part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ summer webinar series sponsored by the National Action Alliance—a public-private effort to support healthcare delivery systems’ move toward zero harm.
The learning of the National Action Alliance builds upon recognized frameworks such as Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety, with its four foundational areas of culture, leadership and governance; patient and family engagement; workforce safety; and creation of learning health systems. The national action plan, which includes recommendations for workforce safety, is the work of 27 federal agencies, safety organizations, experts and patient and family advocates, including ACHE. This resource and other tools, including Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success, are available on ache.org/Safety.
Other webinars in the HHS summer series are:
- “Involving Patients and Families in Safety,” July 25, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- “Engaging Boards and Executive Leadership in Safety,” Aug. 22, sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Visit the National Action Alliance webpage to learn more and to register for the webinar series.
Reminder: IHF Award Submissions Due June 30
Entries for the International Hospital Federation’s 2023 Awards are due Friday, and World Hospital Congress early bird registration rates are available until July 31.
Launched in 2015, the IHF Awards honor excellence in hospitals and healthcare organizations around the world. IHF invites hospitals and health service providers to submit entries that demonstrate outstanding projects, programs and services by Friday, June 30, for the following categories:
- American College of Healthcare Executives Excellence Award for Leadership and Management.
- Dr. Kwang Tae Kim Grand Hospital Award.
- Seddiqi Holding Excellence Award for Corporate Social Responsibility.
- Ashikaga-Nikken Excellence Award for Green Hospitals.
- Sultanate of Oman Excellence Award for Health Services During Crisis.
- American Hospital Association Excellence Award for Healthcare Workers' Wellbeing.
- Austco Excellence Award for Quality and Patient Safety.
The IHF Awards will be presented to winners during a ceremony at the 46th World Hospital Congress. Visit the IHF Awards webpage to learn more. For inquiries, please contact awards@ihf-fih.org.
The World Hospital Congress, scheduled Oct. 25–27, in Lisbon, Portugal, will bring together leaders, managers and professionals from hospitals, healthcare organizations, academia, governments and nongovernmental organizations to share global learning that leads to effective local action.
Register by July 31 to take advantage of exclusive early bird rates. Discounted IHF member rates are also available to ACHE and its members; simply enter the code 23WHCIHF when asked if your organization is an IHF member. Finally, group discounts are available for organizations that register five or more attendees. If you are planning to bring a team to Congress, visit the group registration portal.
Learn more about the World Hospital Congress and register today.
Accelerating Diverse Healthcare Leadership
Aug. 23, join the National Association of Health Services Executives, the National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives and the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity for a discussion about accelerating diversity in healthcare leadership for people from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. During this one-hour webinar, which will be the first in a series, the following panelists will discuss specific obstacles that members of these communities face in professional growth and development and consider strategies for advancing workplace diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare:
- Joy Lewis, senior vice president, Health Equity Strategies/executive director, Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, American Hospital Association.
- Lisa M. Mallory, PhD, CEO, National Association of Health Service Executives, and an ACHE Member.
- Marcos Pesquera, president, National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives/system vice president, Community Benefit, Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, CHRISTUS Health.
These panelists, all of whom represent ACHE partners in diversity, will also provide different perspectives on how to drive innovation in health equity and answer questions. This webinar is free and eligible for 1 ACHE Qualified Education credit that can be self-reported by visiting My ACHE.