Newsletter

September 13, 2021

 

 

Benefits Bulletin:

D&I Resources for Today’s Healthcare Leaders

We make supporting diversity and inclusion integral to our mission and daily work. From specialized member forums to career resources, executive programs and policy statements, we offer a variety of diversity and inclusion resources to help close the leadership gap in healthcare management, and to improve the workforce and services delivered to patients and communities.

These are just some of the diversity and inclusion resources available to our members. Visit the Diversity and Inclusion webpage to see the full breadth of our offerings. Thank you for being a part of the ACHE community.

Value-Based Care Strategies for Financial Resiliency

The pandemic exposed flaws in the healthcare system and created changes that could potentially accelerate fundamental shifts in how healthcare is delivered and funded. The path to financial resiliency, durability and longevity lies in diversifying into value-based reimbursement models. To help organizations on their value-based care journey, Dave Friederichs, senior director, Cerner Health Network, discusses key VBC strategies that can help health systems become more sustainable and financially resilient. Read the entire article here.

Cerner, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner, provided the content above.

On World Patient Safety Day, Share How You Lead for Safety

This Friday, the World Health Organization is recognizing World Patient Safety Day 2021—a day meant to enhance global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in healthcare safety and promote global action to prevent and reduce avoidable harm in healthcare. This year’s theme for the day is dedicated to the need to prioritize and address safety in maternal and newborn care, particularly around the time of childbirth, when most harm occurs.

At ACHE, we believe the most important thing healthcare leaders can stand for and lead for is safety. As such, we would like to take this opportunity to remind you of the many patient safety resources we offer on our new and improved safety site, ache.org/Safety:

  • NEW—Because we’re serious about establishing a culture of safety at ACHE and within our broader healthcare community, we now offer a continually growing collection of safety-related thought leadership, curated with you in mind. Here are the most recent pieces we’ve published from our safety repertoire.
  • Released one year ago by the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety, Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety provides health systems with renewed momentum and clearer direction for eliminating preventable medical harm.
  • Commit to a few priorities at a time with Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success. This resource helps leaders break down priorities and focus on fine-tuning a few pillars of changes at a time.
  • NEW—If you are using Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success and/or Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety in your organization, we want to hear from you. Please fill out the form available on the lower right-hand side of the pages for these resources to let us know your thoughts about the blueprint or the national action plan, and how your organization is using these resources.
  • The We Lead for Safety Pledge invites healthcare leaders to join a community of executives who are committed to leading with intent and prevention of unnecessary harm.
  • The safety leadership journey requires executives to continually assess their organization to learn what strategies are working and to periodically measure the pace and quality of their progress. Taking the Culture of Safety Organizational Self-Assessment is the first step toward implementing systematic change that will make an impact.

Exploring Well-Being Efforts During the Pandemic

“When contemplating well-being strategies, it is important to think about the eventual return on investment, not just the short-term return for a specific program,” write Kelly Hancock, DNP, and Chad V. Minor, FACHE, leaders of Cleveland Clinic’s Caregiver Office, in the fall issue of Frontiers of Health Services Management. This issue of the journal looks at how healthcare organizations stay resilient by ensuring the well-being of their staffs and communities. In their article, Hancock and Minor describe their well-being strategy during the pandemic and explain how their initiatives such as a well-being website are shaping the future at Cleveland Clinic.

In another feature, Jim Dunn, PhD, FACHE, executive vice president and chief people and culture officer at Atrium Health, draws from a strong corporate culture to anticipate the needs of teammates during a crisis. Employee well-being and experience are essential to the care that everyone at Atrium Health provides, he writes.

Meanwhile, Texas Health Resources CEO Barclay E. Berdan, FACHE, tells how Texas Health puts its people in the best position to safely manage the health of their patients based on lessons learned from a public health crisis in 2014.

Read these features and more in the fall issue of Frontiers of Health Services Management, which is available online at ache.org/Journals. 

Join IHF in Spain for the 44th World Hospital Congress

The International Hospital Federation invites you to join them in-person or virtually for its annual World Hospital Congress, Nov. 8–11, in Barcelona, Spain. During this unique global forum, healthcare leaders from at least 50 countries will gather to discuss key drivers of national and international policy, management, financial trends and solutions. With more than 60 sessions and over 200 speakers to choose from, this is an event you won’t want to miss. If you can’t make it to Barcelona, all sessions will be live-streamed to virtual attendees in a dedicated platform, where they can also interact with fellow participants, presenters, exhibitors and sponsors.

Visit worldhospitalcongress.org to learn more about the event and to register. ACHE members can avail themselves of the special IHF member rates by using the code IHF2021 when they register. Please contact congress@ihf-fih.org with questions. 

NALHE’s Annual Leadership Summit Is Next Week

Join the National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives for its 2021 Annual Leadership Summit. This year’s event, “Mapping the Mile-High Healthcare Trek,” will convene a diverse group of healthcare leaders and experts Sept. 22–23 in Denver to drive insight into the Latina, Latino and multicultural experience in the healthcare leadership space. Attendees will exchange information and knowledge regarding best practices; learn about the latest industry tools, research and trends; and hear from visionaries and experts. They will also have the opportunity to unpack the pandemic’s impact on the healthcare ecosystem, including its impact on Latino communities. There is an in-person and virtual attendance alternative. As a national partner of NALHE, ACHE will have a presence in both offerings. Be sure to register today.