- Leadership Spotlight:
New Webinars With Fresh Insights From the Field - The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Policy
- CMS: Supply Chain, Provider Self-Care, Emergency Preparedness Resources
- ACHE Celebrates Nurses and Hospitals
- Health Administration Press’ 2020 Catalog Now Available
Leadership Spotlight: New Webinars With Fresh Insights From the Field
This week, two new COVID-19-related webinars offer perspectives from front-line leaders and industry experts. On Tuesday, join ACHE and Tufts Medical Center President/CEO Michael Apkon, MD, PhD, and Diana Richardson, COO/incident commander, for a free interactive webinar about lessons learned in hospital operations as a result of the coronavirus. They will share best practices for managing the mental health of practitioners while motivating and maintaining highly productive teams, and how the academic medical center has been managing ongoing clinical trials and preparing to move forward.
This webinar, eligible for 1 ACHE Qualified Education credit, is the latest in a series providing executive insights about organizational responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recordings of previous webinars and other resources and tools are available at ache.org/COVID.
Then, on Thursday, join the webinar “Managing Risk Adjustment in Light of the Pandemic: Focus on Telehealth” for a discussion about the rapid expansion of telehealth in U.S. healthcare in the wake of COVID-19. Presenters Cheryl Sisteck, lead data analyst, risk management, Change Healthcare, and Keith Mazzoni, director, federal programs, Change Healthcare, will provide actionable insights on using telehealth as a key resource for managing risk in this new era.
Eligible for 1 ACHE Qualified Education credit, this webinar is made possible in part by the support of Change Healthcare, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner.
The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Policy
Creative healthcare leaders have been responding to the pandemic with innovations in care delivery. If successful, some of these changes might be adopted as standard practice with new health policies in the future. In his latest “Public Policy Update” column, Daniel B. McLaughlin, director, Center for Innovation in the Business of Health Care, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, and an ACHE Faculty Associate, explores some of these emergency measures to fight the coronavirus, which include revisions to the role of testing by public health agencies and the private sector, the healthcare supply chain, innovations in payment, and creative use of the healthcare workforce. Also, be sure to check out a web extra related to the column in which McLaughlin details a tiered staffing strategy for the pandemic.
This column and a few others in the May/June 2020 issue of Healthcare Executive magazine discuss the implications of COVID-19.
CMS: Supply Chain, Provider Self-Care, Emergency Preparedness Resources
The most recent Express from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange highlights recently developed resources. Resources include the following:
- Stress management exercise for healthcare workers responding to COVID-19: Manage stress before, during or after your shift.
- Crisis standards of care during COVID-19: Speakers share their experiences and practical considerations for state health departments and hospital systems related to the ethical application of crisis standards of care.
- COVID-19 clinical rounds peer-to-peer virtual communities of practice: Interactive virtual learning sessions aim to create a peer-to-peer learning network where clinicians from the U.S. and abroad who have more experience treating patients with COVID-19 share their challenges and successes.
- COVID-19 alternate care site resources: Collection addresses capacity and capability gaps and includes a toolkit, video and fact sheet.
- COVID-19 healthcare workforce virtual toolkit: Links to tools and resource collections related to healthcare workforce issues, from licensure and scope of practice expansions, to training, protection and resiliency resources for healthcare workers.
ACHE Celebrates Nurses and Hospitals
At ACHE, we appreciate the lifesaving work of healthcare professionals 365 days a year. This week, especially, we’d like to pay special tribute to nurses in honor of National Nurses Week (May 6–12) and International Nurses Day (May 12), and hospitals in recognition of National Hospital Week (May 10–16).
Each year, May 12th—Florence Nightingale’s birthday—anchors the American Nurses Association’s celebration of National Nurses Week and the International Council of Nurses’ celebration of International Nurses Day. This year, the American Hospital Association plans to recognize National Hospital Week with “A Week of Thanks,” which will allow people to thank hospital and health system workers from the safety and comfort of their homes.
While their masks and scrubs may be less flashy than the brightly colored uniforms of the superheroes portrayed in comic books and movies, the healthcare professionals on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic are no less deserving of praise and support for their heroic efforts to keep communities safe and healthy during these unprecedented events. In our latest blog post, Steven E. Brown, LFACHE, takes a look at the new kinds of heroes this pandemic is producing.
Please join us and the organizations that host these events in thanking nurses, hospitals and all healthcare workers for their tireless work.
Health Administration Press’ 2020 Catalog Now Available
Whether you are looking for career guidance or study resources for the ACHE Board of Governors Exam, Health Administration Press’ 2020 catalog has it all. You’ll find new titles in HAP’s management series such as The Tracks We Leave: Ethics & Management Dilemmas in Healthcare, Third Edition, and winners of the James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award, including the 2020 winner, Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises by Jon Burroughs. The catalog helpfully lists HAP’s professional publications by topic and offers multiple ways for you to save, including book bundles. Check out the 2020 catalog today.