Take the next important step in your healthcare management career by advancing to Fellow status. Chapter members who meet the application requirements apply now. Members can apply for Fellow status and learn more about the steps and requirements needed to advance at ache.org/FACHE.

Watch the video and hear what motivated Fellows to pursue the credential.

Do youneed support to successfully prepare for and pass the BOG Exam? ACHE’s Board of Governors Examination Review Course is scheduled for Oct. 15–17 in Scottsdale, Ariz. The exam is comprehensive, consisting of multiple-choice questions that test 10 core knowledge areas. It’s important to be thoroughly prepared, and this two and a half day, faculty-led program also provides testing strategies, sample questions and a better understanding of the examination’s content, structure and scoring.

Participants also earn 19 ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits.  In addition, members must meet all criteria associated with the FACHE^® credential before sitting for the exam. More information on the process for advancing to Fellow status can be found on ache.org/FACHE.

One of ACHE’s key strategic priority areas is to amplify the importance of safety and provide the tools and strategies healthcare leaders need to foster zero-harm workplace cultures and environments. ACHE and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement/National Patient Safety Foundation developed Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success, a guide that can be used to direct efforts and evaluate an organization’s success along the journey to zero harm, by convening more than 50 highly regarded healthcare executives and quality and safety experts.

Visit ache.org/safety and download the Blueprint. Sign the Pledge to Lead for Safety and take the Culture of Safety Organizational Self-Assessment as a step toward implementing impactful, systemic change.

Good decision making requires a sense of prediction—how different choices change the likelihood of different outcomes—and a sense of judgment—how desirable each of those outcomes is—according to a Harvard Business Review article by Walter Frick.

Highlighted below are three ways to improve your ability to predict the effects of your choices and assess their desirability.

1. Avoid overconfidence. Consider the fact that you may be more confident about each step of your decision-making process than you ought to be, and that’s OK. If you embrace being less certain, however you may be more likely to revisit the logic of your decision and prepare for dramatically different outcomes than your expected one.

2. Analyze how frequently predicted outcomes occur. Numerous studies demonstrate that the best starting point for predictions is to ask “How often does that typically happen?” Get away from the specifics of your particular decision or individual case, and look at the base rate and outcomes of similar cases first.

3. Learn about probability. Research suggests basic training in probability makes people more effective forecasters and helps them avoid certain cognitive biases. Brushing up on probability theory may help you better express uncertainty and think numerically about the question “How often does this usually happen?”

“Great decision makers don’t follow these rules only when facing a particularly difficult choice; they return to them all the time,” Frick writes. “They recognize that even seemingly easy decisions can be hard—and that they probably know less than they think.”

—Adapted from “3 Ways to Improve Your Decision Making,” by Walter Frick, Harvard Business Review, Jan. 22, 2018.

ACHE is beginning the election process for new Regents to serve a three-year term on its Council of Regents, the legislative body that represents ACHE’s more than 48,000 members. The Regent is the ACHE leader within a specified geographic jurisdiction elected by the voting members to represent the interests of members in the governance of ACHE and its chapters.

Recommended knowledge, skills and experience include knowledge of the programs, products and services of ACHE and the local chapter(s); knowledge of the local healthcare community including senior-level healthcare executives, state and regional healthcare associations; negotiation, influencing and policy decision/analysis skills; and personal organizational and planning skills. Go to the Member Center for full position descriptions for geographic Regents and federal sector Regents. The descriptions include a summary, scope of responsibility, meeting requirements and other commitments.

All Fellows who wish to run for election must submit a letter of intent to elections@ache.org by Aug. 24. The letter of intent must include a current business title, business address, email address and telephone number. If you submit your letter of intent and haven’t received confirmation of its receipt by Aug. 31, contact Caitlin E. Stine, communications specialist, Division of Regional Services, ACHE, at (312) 424-9324 or cstine@ache.org.

Elections will be held in Wisconsin.

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July 26, 4:00-7:00 p.m.

August 1, 2018
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Milwaukee VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI

Schedule

5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Registration/Networking
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Panel Discussion

Learning Objectives

1. Provide examples and impact of disruptive provider behavior, to include financial and recruitment implications
2. Understand effective strategies for addressing and resolving inappropriate conduct
3. Review the concepts and application of the 360 Feedback Model
4. Discuss provider conflicts related to generational diversity

Moderator

• Sara J. McCarthy, JD, Attorney, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.

Panelists

• Gail McNutt, MD, Medical Director for Care Coordination, Milwaukee VA Medical Center
• Nkem A. Iroegbu, MD, MPH, FACP, Chief Medical Officer, Aurora Sinai Medical Center

Face-to-Face Credits

This program has been developed and is presented locally by the Wisconsin Chapter. The American College of Healthcare Executives has awarded 1.5 ACHE Face-to-Face Education Credits to this program.

Register Here

The ACHE-WI 2018 Annual Conference will take place on September 17-19, 2018 at The Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, WI. The conference theme this year is Building Bridges and Creating Connections in Healthcare and will offer 12 Face-to-Face credits.

Face-to-Face Topics

• Coaching for Optimal Behavior: A 360-Degree Model
• Ensuring Your Community’s Emergency Preparedness
• Interdependence of Public, Private and Federal Healthcare Delivery
• The Promise and Perils of Precision Medicine
• Employing Social Media to Build Customer Satisfaction and Community Outreach
• Managing for Morale—Effective Management Techniques to Retain Your Staff
• Accountability for the Care We Provide
• Closing Gaps in Patient Care Plans: The Executive’s Role in Engaging Care Teams to Improve Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Operating Margins

Plan to attend now and book your hotel room. Rooms are available at The Osthoff Resort at the special rate of $172. To guarantee this rate, reservations must be made by August 27, 2018. To make a reservation, please call The Osthoff Resort at 1-800-876-3399 and request the American College of Healthcare Executives – Wisconsin Chapter room block.

Register Here

Ah yes, summer in Wisconsin. The turbulence we experience at this time of year in Wisconsin can be assimilated to our healthcare industry. Walmart buying Humana, CVS and Aetna, Amazon, Uber, hospital closures, and pervasive merger and acquisitions are all things that signal a new normal for us as healthcare leaders. As we navigate unchartered waters, there is no better time to focus on your leadership development and ensure you are modeling grit, agility and resolve to your teams than right now. The American College of Healthcare Executives is still the leading way to develop these skills and manage your career.

This year’s Congress on Healthcare Leadership was a great example of how ACHE is leading the way. The Congress on Healthcare Leadership continued to show ACHE’s commitment to its members, the ACHE members’ commitment to the healthcare management profession, a collective dedication to growing future leaders and our profession’s resolve to transform healthcare in the United States. At a time where it may seem easier to run from the challenges and resist change, I continue to see my fellow ACHE members run toward the future of healthcare. Kudos to all of us who are committed to seeing our way to a revolution of healthcare across our great nation!

As we forge ahead, should you find yourself looking for ways to continue your commitment to the profession and keep your fire and passion burning inside, please take a look at the management development opportunities ACHE offers – both here in Wisconsin as well as throughout ACHE.

Click on this link for more information about upcoming educational offerings in Wisconsin:  http://wisconsin.ache.org/events/

Click on this link for more information about upcoming educational offerings at ACHE:  http://www.ache.org/events/

Last, if your fire is lit but your management development bucket full, consider helping to blossom the careers of early careerists and students. I am troubled by how many students and early careerists we are losing from membership because they haven’t realized the connection and benefit of ACHE to their career growth. What I’ve heard is that the early careerists and students are looking for that connection through mentorships – both formal and informal. If you’d like to help me mentor and advise early careerists and students, please reach out and partner with me on developing the future leaders of our industry! Or, are you a physician and looking to mentor other ACHE physician members. Physicians are the largest group of members joining ACHE. Please let me know how I can help our physician members get the value of ACHE they seek.

Best Wishes!

Andrew M. Hillig, FACHE
Regent for Wisconsin