ACHE is inviting authors to submit narratives of their posters for consideration for the 37th Annual Management Innovations Poster Session to be held at the 2022 Congress on Healthcare Leadership. This is a unique opportunity for authors to share the innovative work being done at their organizations with other healthcare leaders. We are interested in innovations addressing issues affecting your organization that might be helpful to others, including improving quality or efficiency, improving patient or physician satisfaction, implementation of electronic medical records, uses of new technology and similar topics. Please go to ache.org/CongressPosterSession for the full selection criteria. Narratives should ... Read More
January 11, 2022Genevieve Hedland-Hill
Pearl Meyer is a 2021 CHEF Platinum Sponsor
Healthcare providers and insurers have had very divergent, disruptive experiences in 2020 and 2021, leading to unique sets of challenges and opportunities in executive compensation program design. Managing Directors Steve Sullivan and Ed Steinhoff discuss how their provider and insurer clients are balancing pay and financial and operational performance, and how they are approaching retention in the current unusual labor market.
Q: The impacts of the pandemic have been quite different for providers and insurers. How are you seeing that reflected in executive compensation?
Ed: We are seeing those differences reflected in the design of executive compensation ... Read More
January 11, 2022Genevieve Hedland-Hill
When Augusta Health’s hospital incident command structure was activated on March 13, 2020, in response to COVID-19, priorities shifted dramatically.
Establishing a Well-Functioning HICS
Augusta Health’s paramount priority in 2020 was keeping its team members safe while caring for a community impacted by a pandemic. The organization’s hospital incident command structure developed and activated an unexpected and all-consuming “product line” to manage COVID-19.
The HICS transformed the hospital almost overnight: carving out negative pressure respiratory care units within the hospital to care for COVID-19 patients; creating an essential negative pressure hallway within the ED; converting an urgent care center to a respiratory assessment ... Read More
January 11, 2022Genevieve Hedland-Hill
Pearl Meyer is a 2021 CHEF Platinum Sponsor.
In 2020, just after the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, Pearl Meyer conducted two healthcare peer exchange sessions. One included CHROs and the other included health system board members. We provided a forum for participants to come together and discuss the challenges their organizations were experiencing and share ideas.
A full year later, we decided to revisit the concept to learn about the manner in which provider organizations have adapted to the ongoing pandemic and to better understand the new challenges that are present. It was clear from the beginning of these discussions that ... Read More
January 11, 2022Genevieve Hedland-Hill