Newsletter

March 15, 2021

 

 

Program Spotlight: Congress 2021: Embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 

Supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is integral to ACHE’s mission and daily work. As such, these timely topics will be well-represented at the 2021 Congress on Healthcare Leadership.

During “Moving Beyond 2020: Activating Connection Between Health Equity and C-suite Diversity,” subject matter experts and healthcare leaders will examine research and case studies that demonstrate a key reason for increasing diversity among healthcare executives. Meanwhile, the Women Healthcare Leaders Series will teach participants to harness their negotiation power.

Attendees can explore how to create fully inclusive gender equity in healthcare leadership during this session, or learn best practices in LGBTQ+ inclusion during this session.

Congress participants won’t want to miss out on this year’s Thomas C. Dolan Diversity Address, Women Healthcare Executives Address, or the new “Leadership Insights” sessions, several of which focus on issues related to D&I such as “Strategies for Combating Health Disparities.” 

These sessions are just some of the professional development opportunities focused on diversity, equity and inclusion at the 2021 Congress. Be sure to explore all of the options within this topic area while perusing the agenda. We hope you’ll join us next week, March 22–25, for this year’s virtual Congress. Visit ache.org/Congress to register and to learn more.

 

Meet ACHE’s New Elected Officials 

ACHE’s 2021–2022 Chair Officers have been installed. They are as follows:

  • Chair: Carrie Owen Plietz, FACHE, is regional president, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, Calif.
  • Chair-Elect: Anthony A. “Tony” Armada, FACHE, is president/CEO, AHMC Seton Medical Center, Daly City, Calif., and AHMC Seton Medical Center Coastside, Moss Beach, Calif.
  • Immediate Past Chairman: Michael J. Fosina, FACHE, is president, NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, N.Y., and senior vice president, NewYork-Presbyterian, New York City.

Additionally, four new Governors were elected to serve three-year terms on the Board of Governors:

  • Carolyn P. Caldwell, FACHE, is president/CEO, Dignity Health-St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, Calif.
  • Karen F. Clements, RN, FACHE, is CNO, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center & Community Group Practices, Lebanon, N.H.
  • Michael O. Ugwueke, DHA, FACHE, is president/CEO, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis, Tenn.
  • COL Brett H. Venable, FACHE, is deputy to the assistant surgeon general for Resources, Infrastructure and Strategy in the Office of the Army Surgeon General and Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8/9, for the United States Army Medical Command.

Also, 15 Fellows were elected to serve three-year terms as ACHE Regents, and two Regents-at-Large were appointed. In addition, two Regents were appointed on an interim basis.

Read more about the 2021–2022 Board of Governors and Council of Regents. ACHE thanks those Board members and Regents who completed their terms in 2021 for their commitment to healthcare leadership excellence.

Support the Development of Healthcare Leaders While Shopping  

When donors give to the Fund for Healthcare Leadership, they are helping ACHE advance our members and healthcare leadership excellence. Now, contributors can feel good about supporting the Fund while they shop through the AmazonSmile program.

When donors shop at Amazon.com through the AmazonSmile program, they can donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the Fund for Healthcare Leadership. There are no fees to do so, and no extra costs. Donating is easy: Simply click here to add the Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives as your charitable organization of choice, and visit smile.amazon.com the next time you shop.

If you have already made a contribution to the Fund for Healthcare Leadership this year, we sincerely thank you. If you have yet to donate, please consider doing so today through AmazonSmile or the many other ways you can give.

Welcome to Patient Safety Awareness Week 

Improving healthcare safety requires leaders who are committed and will take a stand to achieve the highest standards of safety. ACHE is dedicated to amplifying the importance of safety and serving as a catalyst for the field of healthcare management.

In recognition of Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 14–20—a dedicated time and platform sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement for growing awareness about patient safety and recognizing the work already being done—ACHE encourages healthcare leaders to commit to leading for safety by signing our We Lead for Safety pledge and assessing their  organization’s safety culture through this self-assessment.

Both of these tools, along with the resources shared with ACHe-news readers last week, are available on ache.org/Safety and ache.org/SaferTogether, where you will find additional resources and thought leadership on advancing patient safety and moving toward zero harm.

Service Line Strategies for a Value-Based World 

“Uniting all of the many moving parts allows us to view them from a systems perspective, helping us to live our guiding mission of making healthcare easier so that life can be better,” write Peter S. Fine, FACHE, and Kathy Kuhlenbeck of Banner Health in a recent article describing their organization’s systemwide initiative to maximize revenue and quality across the continuum of care.

The feature, which examines a model that comprises vertical business units, system services and redesigned service lines, is one of several pieces in the spring 2021 issue of Frontiers of Health Services Management that zero in on how service line strategies can support an effective organizing structure for hospitals in today’s value-based world.

Another article in the spring issue by John A. Lutz, FACHE; Paula Zalucki, FACHE; and Maria Finarelli of ECG Management Consultants, outlines the key factors for successful service lines and describes the essential elements of comprehensive, patient-centric service line integration.

Read more of this issue of Frontiers, which is available online to all ACHE members at ache.org/Journals.

Last Call: ACHE Graduate Student Scholarship Applications Due March 31 

There are only two weeks left for interested students to apply online for 2021 Dent and McGaw scholarships. Offered annually, the Albert W. Dent and Foster G. McGaw Graduate Student Scholarships are awarded to outstanding students enrolled in their final year of graduate programs in health services administration to help finance their education. Each scholarship is worth $5,000. Each year, ACHE awards up to a total of 15 scholarships. Applications for the scholarships are due March 31. To learn more, visit the Albert W. Dent and Foster G. McGaw Graduate Student Scholarship webpages.