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- Unlocking the ED: How AI Can Restore Flow
- Pay It Back by Becoming a Mentor
- Healthcare Leaders Heed the Call to Perform at a Higher Level
- Call for Proposals: Management Innovations Poster Session
- 2025 Key Industry Facts Released Online
Unlocking the ED: How AI Can Restore Flow
Emergency department boarding remains a concern for healthcare leaders, often delaying patient care, overwhelming staff and increasing overall costs. The effects can ripple throughout a hospital or healthcare system. Conventional solutions like expanding bed capacity or adding staff have helped, but a new approach using AI is providing hospitals with a smarter, systemwide way to address this challenge.
In a newly published white paper, LeanTaaS explains how predictive analytics and AI can empower hospitals to proactively manage end-to-end patient flow to unlock the ED. By treating the hospital as a coordinated system—not a collection of silos—health systems can reduce boarding and optimize throughput across every point along the care journey. Here are three key strategies to unlock the ED:
- Accelerate discharges by identifying likely candidates earlier, enabling care teams to be proactive.
- Optimize patient placement with real-time, data-driven insights that guide patients to the right care setting from the start.
- Forecast and manage demand with AI-powered predictive analytics and automated protocols that help teams act before surges and bottlenecks occur.
This transformation doesn’t require building new infrastructure or hiring more staff—it requires a new approach. By leveraging AI and predictive analytics, health systems can better align resources, improve patient throughput and reduce the strain on EDs. For healthcare executives facing the daily pressure of gridlocked EDs and strained resources, this AI-powered approach offers a scalable path forward to restore access, improve outcomes and support staff well-being.
Learn how leading health systems are using AI to unlock their EDs and create more resilient hospitals in this white paper, Unlocking the Emergency Department, from AI healthcare expert LeanTaaS.
LeanTaaS, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner, provided the content above.
Pay It Back by Becoming a Mentor
Though mentoring relationships often focus on the growth of the mentee, most connections are mutually beneficial. Mentors benefit by staying attuned to issues across the career continuum, exercising leadership skills and strengthening interpersonal and coaching competencies beyond their organization. Mentees, on the other hand, have the chance to clarify long-term career goals, enhance executive presence or sharpen their leadership skills.
“I've enjoyed mentoring … because it has given me the chance to share my knowledge and expertise to make a positive impact,” says Kenneth Wong, FACHE, healthcare consultant and adjunct faculty, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. “The exchange of ideas and experiences during mentoring sessions cultivates a dynamic learning environment that benefits both mentor and mentee.”
An exclusive ACHE member benefit, the Leadership Mentoring Network provides strategic matching and support for successful mentor partnerships. Formal programming lasts six months, although many partnerships carry on beyond the formal timeline. Operating two cohorts per year, this mentoring network’s fall cohort application deadline is Tuesday, Sept. 30.
ACHE Fellows and healthcare leaders with a minimum of five years of experience at the director level or higher are invited to apply to become a mentor through the Leadership Mentoring Network. To learn more about the numerous benefits of becoming a mentor, read this ACHE blog post and or see this “Careers” column from Healthcare Executive.
For more information and to apply, visit the Mentor Network.
Healthcare Leaders Heed the Call to Perform at a Higher Level
ACHE’s Code of Ethics guides healthcare executives in their responsibilities to patients and individuals served, their organization, employees, community and society, and to the profession at large.
Healthcare executives are asked to embody an exemplary system of values and ethics. They also have an obligation to act in ways that will merit the trust, confidence and respect of healthcare professionals, staff and the general public.
Since many leadership decisions affect the health and well-being of both individuals and communities, healthcare executives must carefully evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions. They are also called to take action, when necessary to promote the rights and interests of others.
Refresh your understanding about the Code of Ethics and find additional resources here.
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. Abstracts should be submitted by Oct. 31, 2025, using the Start Submission link.
2025 Key Industry Facts Released Online
The 2025 edition of Key Industry Facts is now available. Prepared by ACHE’s research team, Key Industry Facts provides annual updates on healthcare spending and other vital information. The data is gathered from a variety of sources, including the American Hospital Association, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the National Center for Health Statistics. A complete list of references is included on the last page of the document.