- Program Spotlight:
Monthly Membership Perk: The Six Biggest External Factors Shaping the Future of Healthcare - Registration Opens Wednesday, Nov. 15, for the 2024 Congress on Healthcare Leadership
- Leveraging da Vinci Surgery to Help Improve Outcomes and Lower Penalties
- Premier Corporate Partners Offer ACHE Year-Round Support
- Addressing Waves of Leadership and Organizational Languishing
- Congratulations to the 2023 IHF Award Winners
Program Spotlight:
Monthly Membership Perk: The Six Biggest External Factors Shaping the Future of Healthcare
Healthcare is in a state of metamorphosis like never before. A combination of a global pandemic and independent factors such as cyber threats, climate change, resource scarcity and other issues are continuing to shape the future of the healthcare industry. To help executives better understand these changes, members can now access at no charge the online program “Hot Topic: The Six Biggest External Factors Shaping the Future of Healthcare.”
This recorded session features Rod Hochman, MD, president and CEO of Providence Health System, as he shares insights on how health systems and hospitals can prepare themselves to face the six biggest external factors shaping healthcare through innovative strategy, thoughtful planning and adaptability.
Ordinarily a $49 session in the On-Demand Recorded Library, it’s available free of charge through Dec. 13. Simply enter the discount code NOVPERK2023 when you register online. Be sure to check out ACHE’s other on-demand digital learning offerings as well.
We hope you enjoy this Monthly Membership Perk, and we thank you for being a part of the ACHE community.
Registration Opens Wednesday, Nov. 15, for the 2024 Congress on Healthcare Leadership
Registration for ACHE’s 2024 Congress on Healthcare Leadership opens this Wednesday, Nov. 15 with the theme, “Big Ideas. Make No Small Plans.” Be one of the first to select your sessions at healthcare’s premier education and networking event, March 25–28 in Chicago, where leaders from across the care continuum will discuss big ideas for the future of healthcare.
With more than 320 thought leaders from within and beyond healthcare, Congress will feature over 150 education and networking sessions and the opportunity to earn 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits. Visit ache.org/Congress to register and learn more.
Leveraging da Vinci Surgery to Help Improve Outcomes and Lower Penalties
In 2015, colon surgical site infections at Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center were in the fourth percentile, triggering costly reimbursement penalties from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Many of the challenges stemmed from the medical center’s inability to consistently provide minimally invasive surgery for general surgery and colon cases. That shortcoming also sent a number of these colon cases to hospitals farther away, resulting in lost revenue and placing a travel burden on rural patients.
But as Legacy Mount Hood expanded its use of robotic-assisted surgery with the da Vinci surgical system by Intuitive, they saw a reduction in surgical site infections, avoided CMS penalties, shortened hospital stays with fewer readmissions and ultimately regrew case volume.
Hospital-acquired infections are an issue at hospitals nationwide. Just days or weeks following operations, patients can develop infections, increasing length of stay by 9.7 days on average and placing a significant burden on healthcare consumers, providers and payers, costing the system $3.5–$10 billion annually, as reported Jan. 19, 2017, in a prevention guideline from Loyola University Health System researchers, published online by ScienceDaily.
“Compared to RAS, average LOS for a colon resection at Legacy Mount Hood is nearly three days longer with traditional laparoscopic techniques and more than twice as long with open surgery,” said Greg Starley, DO, general surgery, Legacy Mount Hood, in an Intuitive case study.
Not only have annual colon RAS volumes increased at Legacy Mount Hood, but the medical center’s colon resection standard infection ratio is now among the nation’s best, rising to the 81st percentile in 2021. Read the case study to learn more.
Intuitive, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner, provided the above content.
Premier Corporate Partners Offer ACHE Year-Round Support
ACHE’s Premier Corporate Partners play a vital role in supporting our mission of advancing healthcare leadership and the field of healthcare management excellence.
Relationships with these organizations help support ACHE’s educational programs and national events, such as the Congress on Healthcare Leadership. Our partners also offer complimentary resources to ACHE members, such as webinars, white papers and articles to help you address critical issues in your organization.
During this season of gratitude, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our Premier Corporate Partners:
By partnering with ACHE, these leading companies are helping to transform healthcare.
Addressing Waves of Leadership and Organizational Languishing
As waves of languishing and burnout cascaded through different groups of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention was given to the experiences of healthcare administrative leaders and their teams, write Jason Pradarelli, MD, manager, and Jennifer Tomasik, FACHE, vice president, CFAR, Inc., in a recent ACHE Blog post.
“This dynamic is evidence of organizational languishing, leaving many leaders with a desire to hit a reset button with their teams,” they write.
In the post, Pradarelli and Tomasik offer five ways healthcare leaders can combat signs of languishing and burnout in their organizations that can help them re-align for the future.
Read this and other healthcare thought leadership topics on the ACHE Blog.
Congratulations to the 2023 IHF Award Winners
ACHE congratulates the recipients of the 2023 International Hospital Federation Awards. These awards, including the American College of Healthcare Executives Excellence Award for Leadership and Management, are recognized around the world as the premier awards program to honor hospitals and healthcare organizations. IHF announced the 2023 recipients Oct. 26 and presented the awards during a ceremony at the 46th World Hospital Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 25–27.
The ACHE Excellence Award for Leadership and Management recognizes hospitals or health service providers that demonstrate excellence or outstanding achievements in leadership and management in leading a hospital or healthcare organization. The 2023 recipients of the award are:
Gold: Matosinhos Local Health Unit – ULSM (Portugal), Chronic Complex Patients Support Team.
Silver: Royal Hospital (Oman), Introducing and implementing patient experience in Royal Hospital.
Bronze: Dubai Health Authority (United Arab Emirates), Process maturity framework.
Honorable mentions:
- Al-Kharj Maternity and Children Hospital (Saudi Arabia), Advancing emergency care accessibility and efficiency: A collaborative approach with the primary health sector to establish an urgent care clinic.
- Emirates Health Services (United Arab Emirates), Electronic autism screening module.
- SEHA Kidney Care (United Arab Emirates), Enhancing organ procurement and transplantation in the UAE.
- Karolinska University Hospital (Sweden), Sterile service transformation at Karolinska.
- Henry Ford Health (United States), Women-inspired neighborhood network: Detroit.
This year, IHF received over 500 entries from more than 40 countries and territories—the highest number of submissions since the awards were established in 2015.