Adapting Executive Incentive Plans to Meet Today's Performance Imperatives
After four years of heightened financial volatility, 2024 brought a moment of respite for many not-for-profit health care organizations. The path forward remains challenging, however.
- Organizational Strength Founded on Workforce
- Right Strategy Builds Confidence in Decision-making
- FACHE® Recertification in 3 Simple Steps
- Call for Proposals: Management Innovations Poster Session
Organizational Strength Founded on Workforce
Past strategies for creating a sustainable healthcare workforce might not be enough to combat today’s challenges of an aging population and a shift in how people relate to their jobs. Allowing people to flourish at work “solves a lot of problems,” write Katherine A. Meese, PhD, and Quint Studer in The Human Margin: Building the Foundations of Trust (ACHE Learn, 2024). “We increase our chances of delivering the best care, set our caregivers up to create great experiences for one another, and keep our human margin healthy now and for years to come.”
Trust in leadership is at the heart of everything. Studer says trust in an organization is similar to community safety. “When people don’t feel safe, they don’t want to stay where they live. When people feel safe, they engage more.”
When employees trust senior leadership, feel supported and believe the organization cares about their well-being, great things take place. “At its core, healthcare is humans working with humans to heal humans,” says Meese. “The research shows us that most of the things that will support our workforce are free and can be done from wherever you sit in the organization. That is great news for leaders wanting to make a difference for the people they serve.”
Right Strategy Builds Confidence in Decision-making
Imagine improving patient outcomes and enhancing quality of care, while also reducing costs, simply by basing management decisions on the best evidence.
Neel Pathak, DSc, FACHE, assistant professor and program director, Heider College of Business, Creighton University, will present “Evidence-Based Decision Making in Healthcare Management and Leadership” as a virtual interactive seminar Oct. 28–Nov. 25.
Participants will learn to ask the right questions, perform systematic reviews and use analysis to make decisions that can lead to improved organizational outcomes and operational efficiencies.
This seminar covers fundamental principles, practical tools and strategies for implementation. Completion of this program earns members 6 ACHE Virtual Interactive Education credits. Learn more and register today.
FACHE® Recertification in 3 Simple Steps
If you are an ACHE Fellow whose credential is set to expire this year, recertifying is as easy as 1–2–3:
- Complete 36 continuing education credits or retake the Board of Governors Exam. ACHE education and events can be found here. To retake the Exam, contact the customer Service Center at (312) 424-9400.
- Complete four volunteer activities, including two that are community/civic-related and two that are healthcare related.
- Submit your application with the $200 recertification fee by the Dec. 31 deadline.
Learn more about the recertification process by visiting Maintain/Recertify My FACHE. To check your individual progress, use the FACHE Recertification Progress tool available on My ACHE.
Call for Proposals: Management Innovations Poster Session
Authors are invited to submit an abstract of their posters for consideration for the 41st Annual Management Innovations Poster Session to be held at the 2026 Congress on Healthcare Leadership in Houston, March 2–4. This is a great opportunity for authors to showcase the innovative work happening at their organizations with other healthcare leaders.
Submissions should focus on innovations that demonstrate significant advancements and impactful strategies in care delivery environments, promoting access and improved patient outcomes. These innovations should fall into one of the following four categories: AI and Technology, Rural and Critical Access Hospitals, Safety and Quality, and Workforce and Care Redesign.
Visit Congress Poster Session for the full selection criteria and to submit your abstracts. Abstracts must be submitted by Oct. 31.