Newsletter

November 22, 2021

 

 

Program Spotlight:

Learn to Lead Strategic Change to Face Today’s Challenges 

Has the need for responsible and agile healthcare leadership ever been as profoundly important as it has been during the past two years? The words “change management” seem inadequate when describing the depth and complexity of the challenges that healthcare executives face as they continue to steer their organizations through the pandemic.

To expand our perspectives, Healthcare Executive magazine highlights the leaders of ACHE’s Premier Corporate Partners, who explain in a recent feature how they are dealing with these challenges. They also discuss their leadership styles and how they have evolved and adapted their leadership and companies in an environment where uncertainty is relentless.

During the upcoming seminar “Leading Strategic Change,” available at the Chicago Cluster, Dec. 13–14, attendees will have an opportunity to discover how to recognize and overcome barriers to deal with the market uncertainties in the nation’s healthcare system, and explore and practice the stages of successful strategic execution, especially as related to culture change.

The Chicago Cluster offers a new option of taking two one-day, six-hour seminars, each eligible for 6 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits, or four two-day seminars, including “Leading Strategic Change,” each eligible for 12 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits. Please visit the Chicago Cluster webpage to learn more about the event and to register. Information about our COVID-19 vaccination policy can be found here.

Support the Development of Healthcare Leaders While Holiday Shopping  

As you think about holiday gift-giving, please keep in mind you can support the Fund for Healthcare Leadership while shopping online through the AmazonSmile program. When donors give to the Fund, they are helping ACHE advance our members and healthcare leadership excellence. Donating to the Fund through AmazonSmile 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. Through the AmazonSmile program, donors can give 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, and shopping through AmazonSmile will not affect your typical Amazon shopping experience.

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

One Leader’s Journey to Surgeon General of the U.S. Army

Many healthcare careers are marked by sidetracks and detours—some planned, others unexpected. LTG R. Scott Dingle’s road to his current position as surgeon general of the U.S. Army and commanding general of the U.S. Army Medical Command has taken some extraordinary turns from law to hospital administration to operations planning. In a recent interview with the Journal of Healthcare Management, Dingle describes his leadership role in the monumental merger of the Army, Navy and Air Force health systems into the new Defense Health Agency.

You’ll also find a feature article in the November/December Journal of Healthcare Management that explores a proposed value-based purchasing initiative centered on an alternative payment model for freestanding ambulatory surgery centers, along with abstracts from ACHE’s 2021 Forum on Advances in Healthcare Management Research and other important research articles.

This issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management is available online at ache.org/Journals. 

Partnering to Ensure Continuity of Patient Care 

More healthcare organizations are collaborating, especially in the wake of the pandemic. For instance, Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., recently announced it is partnering with Solis Mammography to expand access to high-quality, patient-focused breast health and provide added convenience to patients. Through this partnership, Solis Mammography, an independent provider of breast screening and diagnostic services, will manage Memorial Healthcare System’s comprehensive women’s breast imaging services and bone density testing at the system’s four women’s imaging centers.

Such collaboration between healthcare organizations to ensure continuity of patient care—especially during a crisis like the pandemic—is one of the trends top leaders in the field discuss in “Leadership Insights: The Future of Healthcare Strategy.” During this on-demand seminar, three executives—including Aurelio M. Fernandez III, FACHE, president/CEO of Memorial Healthcare System—describe current trends in healthcare strategy in response to the pandemic and identify approaches to proactively prepare for changes in the healthcare landscape.

For a limited time only, you can access this session in our recorded content library free of charge. Between Nov. 22 and Dec. 31, simply enter the discount code RECORDING21 when you register for this session online. And, be sure to check out all of ACHE’s other on-demand digital learning offerings. 

Podcast: Enhanced Physician Engagement

In the latest episode of the Healthcare Executive Podcast, Carson F. Dye, FACHE, president and CEO of Exceptional Leadership LLC, discusses his new two-volume book and practical ways executives can form effective relationships with physicians and clinical leaders. Enhanced Physician Engagement: What It Is, Why You Need It, and Where to Begin, Volume 1 and Enhanced Physician Engagement: Tools and Tactics for Success, Volume 2 are available for purchase with a 20% discount through the Health Administration Press Holiday Sale, which runs through Jan. 7. Use the promo code HOLIDAY21 at checkout.

Visit HealthcareExecutive.org/Podcast to listen to and browse through more episodes. The podcast is also available by searching for “Healthcare Executive” in Apple Podcasts, iTunes or your podcast app of choice.

Quality Payment Program: Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period Open 

The Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period is open until Dec. 14 at 8 p.m. Eastern time for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2020 Quality Payment Program performance information before it appears on Medicare Care Compare and in the Provider Data Catalog.

Doctors and clinicians can access the secured preview through the QPP website. Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations and Next Generation Model ACOs can preview their performance information in their 2020 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Performance Feedback Reports. Shared Savings Program ACOs can also review quality performance information on their previously provided 2020 Quality Performance Reports.

For more information, visit the following resources:

If you have questions about public reporting, email QPP@cms.hhs.gov or call 866-288-8292 weekdays 8 a.m.–8 p.m. Eastern time (nonpeak hours are before 10 a.m. and after 2 p.m. Eastern time). If you’re hearing impaired, dial 711 for a TRS Communications Assistant.