- Program Spotlight:
Preparing Leaders for the Future: In-Person Executive Program Registration Closes Soon - Help Shape Our Policy Statements
- Interested in Earning Your FACHE®? Learn About the Process Next Week
- Explore HAP’s 2023 Professional Publications Catalog
- Enabling Clinicians to Practice at the Top of Their License
- CMS Updates Strategic Plan
Program Spotlight:
Preparing Leaders for the Future: In-Person Executive Program Registration Closes Soon
If you want to meet the challenges of tomorrow with bold new solutions, there’s still time to register for ACHE’s 2023 In-Person Executive Program. A unique, immersive learning experience for healthcare leaders, the In-Person Executive Program comprises three in-person modules, June 25–Oct. 24, in Atlanta (June), Chicago (August) and Houston (October), with intermittent virtual education between sessions. Each module features site visits to top healthcare institutions and one-on-one coaching and advising to help leaders face today’s most pressing challenges.
Designed for three cohorts—executive, senior executive and clinical executive—the Executive Programs allow participants to earn up to 40 ACHE Face-to-Face Education and interprofessional continuing education credits. The program also features resources and discussions that deliver unique insights on topics relevant to specific challenges healthcare leaders face, as well as professional assessments and individualized coaching sessions to support professional growth.
Registration closes June 21 for the in-person program, for which attendance is limited to maintain a collegial environment. Visit ache.org/ExecutivePrograms to learn more and register. For questions, more information or assistance in deciding which cohort or program is right for you, please contact Alexa Calingo at acalingo@ache.org.
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 Code of Ethics and five Policy Statements under review this year:
- Code of Ethics.
- “Employment Agreements for Healthcare Executives.”
- “Evaluating the Performance of the Hospital or Health System CEO.”
- “Healthcare Executives’ Role in Mitigating Workplace Violence.”
- “Lifelong Learning and the Healthcare Executive.”
- “The Healthcare Executive’s Role in Fostering Inclusion of LGBTQ+ Patients and Employees.”
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 December meeting. The revised statements will be posted on ache.org in early 2024.
Interested in Earning Your FACHE®? Learn About the Process Next Week
If you are thinking about earning the FACHE credential, join us June 8 for a complimentary Fellow Overview Webinar. During this live-streamed webinar, participants will learn the process of earning the FACHE credential. This includes eligibility requirements, application materials needed and how to prepare for the Board of Governors Exam. The session will also help you decide if now is the right time to pursue the FACHE credential, and it will provide an opportunity to ask questions.
Although the webinar is free, it does require registration. Learn more and register today.
Explore HAP’s 2023 Professional Publications Catalog
Whether you are seeking safety resources or ACHE Board of Governors Exam study tools, the 2023 Health Administration Press Professional Publications Catalog has it all. You’ll find new and upcoming titles such as Leading With Your Upper Brain: How to Create the Behaviors That Unlock Performance Excellence and Healthcare Leadership and Rural Communities: Challenges, Strategies and Solutions, and ways to save, such as book bundles. The catalog’s table of contents helpfully lists books by topic to make it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for, whether it’s related to financial management or physician and clinician relationships. Check out the 2023 professional publications catalog today.
Enabling Clinicians to Practice at the Top of Their License
Rare is the nurse or physician who does not cherish being challenged every day to the full extent of their education and experience in service of their patients’ well-being. The opportunity to focus that skill on helping people is why most clinicians went into healthcare. They can perform at their best if they’re unencumbered by peripheral tasks that distract from clinical decision-making and direct care. These distractions can erode morale and cause burnout.
As healthcare organizations saw before the COVID-19 pandemic and are feeling more sharply now, “nurses and other clinicians become scarce when they don’t feel valued,” says Terrance R. McWilliams, MD, FAAFP, director and chief clinical consultant with HSG Advisors, Louisville, Ky., in a recent Healthcare Executive feature. For this reason, “we need to utilize all our support staff at the top of their capabilities to allow our clinicians to practice at the top of theirs,” he says.
In “Peak Performance: Enabling Clinicians to Practice at the Top of Their License,” leaders and experts detail the workforce structures and technologies they’re implementing that are empowering clinicians to focus on patient care as opposed to tedious or administrative tasks that can be done by others.
Visit HealthcareExecutive.org to read this story and more of the May/June issue.
CMS Updates Strategic Plan
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently shared updates to its Strategic Plan, including a new cross-cutting oral health initiative. Through this initiative, CMS will implement policy changes and consider opportunities through existing authorities to expand access to oral health coverage.
CMS is also working to advance health equity through its Strategic Plan and released a fact sheet detailing agency actions to date on this key pillar of the plan.
Finally, CMS added a new fact sheet about its “Integrating the 3Ms (Medicare, Medicaid and Marketplace) Cross-Cutting Initiative.” The fact sheet outlines how CMS has developed approaches to promote alignment and consistency across programs, promoting seamless continuity of care, including experiences with healthcare providers and health coverage for people served by the “3 Ms”.