- Program Spotlight:
Registration Opens Wednesday, Nov. 16, for the 2023 Congress on Healthcare Leadership - Healthcare Today Requires Agile and Responsive Executives
- Premier Corporate Partners Offer ACHE Year-Round Support
- New Issue of JHM Examines Workplace Violence and Quality Initiatives
- Students and Host Sites: Register for 2023 Summer Enrichment Program
- Every Day Is Veterans Day
Program Spotlight:
Registration Opens Wednesday, Nov. 16, for the 2023 Congress on Healthcare Leadership
In two days—Wednesday, Nov. 16—registration will open for ACHE’s 2023 Congress on Healthcare Leadership. Be one of the first to select your sessions at healthcare’s premier education and networking event. With more than 320 thought leaders from within and beyond healthcare, Congress will also feature over 150 education and networking sessions and the opportunity to earn 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits.
We hope you’ll join leaders from across the care continuum March 20–23 to chart a bolder, brigher future in healthcare. Because together, we can make a difference. Visit ache.org/Congress to register and to learn more.
Healthcare Today Requires Agile and Responsive Executives
As the healthcare field adjusts to what it has learned during the past few years, many leaders are assessing how their roles and the priorities of their organizations may have changed. In our November/December Healthcare Executive cover story, “Leadership for Intense Times: Why Agility and Responsiveness Are More Important Than Ever,” ACHE asked several healthcare executives from distinct disciplines for their insights. One take-away is that healthcare organizations face similar challenges today as they did pre-pandemic, including workforce shortages and access issues. However, the intensity of these undertakings has increased.
“Every challenge feels heightened or exacerbated,” says Mike Packnett, president and CEO, Parkview Health, Fort Wayne, Ind. “For instance, we’ve always had job openings that need filling. But today, that number is significantly higher than what we experienced before the pandemic. And that makes leadership more complex than it was pre-pandemic.”
Visit HealthcareExecutive.org to read this feature Q&A in which Packnett and other leaders dive deeper into how the pandemic has changed leadership, and how hospitals and health systems can address key challenges facing the field.
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.
These relationships help ACHE support our educational programs and national events, such as the Congress on Healthcare Leadership, and they offer complimentary resources to members, such as webinars, white papers and articles to help address critical issues in your organization.
During this season of gratitude, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our Premier Corporate Partners:
- Cardinal Health.
- Change Healthcare.
- Exact Sciences.
- Intuitive.
- LeanTaaS.
- Oracle Cerner.
- Quest Diagnostics.
These organizations foster innovative solutions to the challenges leaders face, including shrinking margins, workforce burnout and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. By partnering with ACHE, these leading companies are helping to transform healthcare.
New Issue of JHM Examines Workplace Violence and Quality Initiatives
“Workplace violence in healthcare is not new, but it is so frequent now that it has reached epidemic proportions,” says Scripps Health President/CEO Chris Van Gorder, FACHE, in an article in the November/December Journal of Healthcare Management. Read the full story to find out what’s behind the violence, and what Scripps Health is doing about it.
Then, in a Q&A with GBMC HealthCare President/CEO John B. Chessare, MD, FACHE, the Journal explores what led the safety-net medical center to national recognition for quality.
Research articles featured in the November/December issue include this study on how fellowships can help achieve gender equity in healthcare leadership.
In another study, researchers interviewed health leaders and learned how the Lean daily management system approach to crisis management can support COVID-19 recovery efforts.
Visit ache.org/Journals to access the entire November/December issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management online.
Students and Host Sites: Register for 2023 Summer Enrichment Program
Registration is open for the American Hospital Association’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity’s 2023 Summer Enrichment Program. The Summer Enrichment Program grows and strengthens the pipeline of healthcare leaders from underrepresented groups, and places diverse graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in healthcare administration or a related field in 10-week, paid internships across the country. Internships generally will take place from June through August.
ACHE and the Institute are co-promoting the SEP to increase the number of students who participate in the program each year and, accordingly, increase the number of host sites. Just as students benefit from experiential learning, healthcare organizations that register to become host sites gain access to the healthcare leaders of tomorrow—former SEP interns are now CEOs and administrators of hospitals and healthcare organizations nationwide.
We can accelerate the healthcare field’s efforts to diversify its workforce, leadership teams and governing boards by contributing to improved patient care for all. Help strengthen equity and inclusion in healthcare organizations—learn more and register today.
Every Day Is Veterans Day
“Every year on Nov. 11, the United States pauses to collectively honor those who enlisted or commissioned to serve the nation,” writes Alfred A. Montoya Jr., FACHE, in a recent ACHE Blog post. “Some veterans serve for one tour, while others spend decades in uniform. We serve and return to our communities—some silently, some boldly,” continues Montoya, the senior adviser to the Under Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the ACHE Regent for Veterans Affairs.
In his ACHE Blog post written to recognize Veterans Day, Montoya, who served in the U.S. Air Force, challenges readers to spread the word about VA services to help reach the millions of veterans who are not currently enrolled users of the vast list of benefits created and offered for them, including healthcare. “We want all veterans who meet the eligibility criteria to take full advantage of the benefits they have earned though their years in military service and countless sacrifices,” he says.
Visit ache.org/Blog to read this blog post and other timely, relevant content.