American College of Healthcare Executives

Thank you for all you’ve done the past year for your patients and for our profession. As we move to 2025, we are grateful you are part of our community, and we look forward to supporting you in the year to come. Warmest wishes for a safe and healthy new year. From your colleagues at the American College of Healthcare Executives.

💡 It might seem cliché, but it’s nonetheless true: Failures to improve care experience and outcomes are almost always traceable to the top. The importance of leadership and culture to improve patient care is cited and emphasized routinely. Despite having this essential knowledge, many efforts to improve care falter. This is so even when leaders articulate and communicate a compelling vision for transformed care, and clearly identify and encourage behaviors needed to transform culture. Why? The answer, of course, is systems. Those working to improve care and health have long known that changing outcomes requires changing systems. Yet, the approaches to improving and building better systems are as numerous and varied as the health systems that need them. Some find success, but too many fail to deliver the desired results. A small but growing number of health systems have designed and implemented the kind of systems that reliably deliver better and safer care for patients, and better, more efficient, and more equitable experiences for patients and the workforce. Discover SIX common elements of successful care operating systems are described by Kedar Mate, MD, and Josh Clark, RN, of IHI, in the latest Healthcare Executive magazine: https://bit.ly/3BqYgvw

🎧 In 2024, we had the privilege of hosting incredible guests on the Healthcare Executive #podcast! The end of the year is a great time to catch up on insights and solutions from the premier podcast for healthcare leadership. Browse full episodes here: https://bit.ly/3GPhASe #healthcareleaders

☑ Check out the newest edition of ACHE's newsletter, Healthcare Leadership Focus, featuring insights from Darrell K. Terry Sr., FACHE.

✨ At this special time of year, we express our appreciation and gratitude for the hard work and dedication you've shown throughout the past year. We'd also like to thank you for your support which has encouraged us to continue striving for excellence.

🎯 Healthcare leaders are guided by the highest calling—to care for those who entrust their care to us, and to make a difference. We believe this can only happen when leaders lead with intent. Leading with intent requires that leaders stand for something. Amid all the competing priorities, the most important thing leaders can stand for and lead for is safety. As you know, leading for safety is a journey—it’s a marathon and not a sprint. There are many highs and lows on this journey. Sometimes things are moving forward and other times a little reboot can be helpful. ACHE provides you and your leadership team with practices to develop your team and to keep moving forward on this critical journey. Learn more about ACHE and our commitment to safety here: https://bit.ly/4iu4V8U

💡 Health systems are synonymous with healing, and for survivors of interpersonal violence, a well-resourced, post-discharge support system is essential to promote safety and resilience. While recovering in the hospital, survivors of assaults, stabbings or shootings are in stages of deep reflection, recounting their violent experience. That sort of support system is in place at John Muir Health, a nonprofit healthcare leader in Northern California, with Beyond Violence, a hospital-based violence prevention program that provides bedside intervention to people affected by intentional interpersonal violence, defined as the use of intentional force to cause harm from one person to another or group of people. At this critical juncture, John Muir Health social workers engage Beyond Violence intervention specialists, or community-based paraprofessionals, to provide them with timely bedside support, crisis management, linkage to a robust network of health and social services, and a connection to nonprofit partner organizations post-hospital discharge. To date, the program has provided healing services to more than 700 clients since its launch in 2010. Jamie Elmasu, MPH director of Community Health Improvement, John Muir Health, shares information about the Beyond Violence program and the positive effect it's made on the community in the newest edition of Healthcare magazine. Full read here: https://bit.ly/41ogLeF

✨ We thank all our 2024 Premier Corporate Partners for their support of ACHE members and fellows. The pursuit of excellence in healthcare leadership is made possible by Core Clinical Partners, Exact Sciences, Intuitive, JLL, LeanTaaS, Quest Diagnostics and RLDatix.

☑ Check out the newest edition of ACHE's newsletter, Healthcare Leadership Focus, featuring insights from Douglas Riddle, PhD, DMin, FAPA, and Anne McCune.

⌛ There's no better time to join the #ACHECongress on Healthcare Leadership to learn how to positively impact health in your community. Learn more and save your seat here: https://bit.ly/3R3XhVW