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Using Interim Leadership to Strengthen Organizational Agility

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AMN Healthcare B.E.Smith

AMN Healthcare B.E.SmithAMN Healthcare / B.E. Smith has a track record of success in providing experienced interim leaders to fill open positions while clients conduct searches for a replacement. An additional item, AMN Leadership / B.E. Smith is excited to offer is helping partners deploy interim leaders independent of a search, an approach called strategic interim leadership.

Strategic interim leadership can be defined as when an experienced outside leader is contracted to execute a strategic project or lead a key initiative and is distinctly different from utilizing large-scale consulting firms or hiring the occasional freelancer. They can provide interim candidates in as short as 48 hours.

The benefits of this approach are substantial and include:

  • Cost savings compared to large consulting projects.
  • Maintain strategic momentum.
  • Enhance organizational agility.

Members are invited to explore this subject further with the new report, Using Interim Leadership to Strengthen Organizational Agility, which addresses the drivers and critical success factors in deploying strategic interim leaders on a project basis.

To learn more, contact Mario Karagianis, Midwest division director, AMN Leadership Solutions, at (316) 992-3269. For more information about the EBP program, visit the program’s webpage.

Webinar Highlights Diverse Perspectives and Collaboration to Improve Strategic Goals

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Now is the time to maximize board resources to design healthcare that is affordable, equitable and focused on your community’s needs. To effectively create strategies, an organization’s leadership must agree on the approach, terminology and philosophy surrounding goals.

The Difference Between Strategic Planning and Having Strategic Focus webinar from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 11 will provide guidance on how to accomplish strategic goals. Specifically, it will explain how the board, executive and clinical leadership can collaboratively develop an approach to the organization’s strategy and implementation; use the diversity of board, leadership and medical staff perspectives to actively debate the merits of differing approaches; and how to carve out time to ask questions like what elements are missing and where is the resistance to new ideas.

Board chairs, CEOs and all governing board members are encouraged to register and join us virtually. MHA-member hospitals can register for an unlimited number of connections per hospital or entity for $250. Members with questions should contact Erica Leyko at the MHA.

MHA Launches Physician Membership with AAPL Partnership

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The MHA and the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) announced a partnership Sept. 22 that will provide leadership education and training to MHA physician members. The announcement expands the range of benefits offered through the new MHA Physician Membership category, which is designed to provide physician leadership development opportunities and resources.

The AAPL remains the only association solely focused on providing professional development, leadership education and management training exclusively for physicians, making them an ideal candidate for the MHA.

The new relationship will provide membership in AAPL as part of the MHA Physician Membership. New benefits include:

  • AAPL will provide critical components and credits toward obtaining the Certified Physician Executive (CPE) certification as well as credits toward selected master’s degrees through AAPL partner universities.
  • MHA/AAPL physician members will be offered the AAPL’s Physician-Mapped Leadership Assessment & Development Tool.
  • The MHA/AAPL Physician Membership will include full access to the AAPL Leadership Library with articles, journals, case studies and podcasts and will receive a discount on AAPL programs, products, and services.

All physicians employed by a member hospital in Michigan are eligible for MHA Physician membership, as are physicians who are contracted by member hospitals or those who maintain a strong relationship with member hospitals (upon endorsement of the hospital chief executive officer or chief medical officer).

Members with questions may contact MHA Chief Medical Officer Gary Roth, DO.

Suicide Prevention Focus of AHA Trustee Insights

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September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and an opportunity to be reminded of the many resources available to support emotional well-being.

The September edition of Trustee Insights, the monthly digital package from the American Hospital Association (AHA), features article about ways governing boards can support suicide prevention initiatives, both through quality and safety practices and through behavioral health networks offering services across the spectrum. Another article outlines how to recognize the behaviors of employees who experience burnout, depression and other forms of anxiety, ways to decrease stigma and interventions and treatments that reduce suicide risk.

This resource is available free for AHA members and at a cost for nonmembers. For information about MHA trustee resources or webinars, contact Erin Steward at the MHA.

Webinar Highlights Discipline Required to Accomplish Strategic Goals

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Now is the time to maximize board resources to design healthcare that is affordable, equitable and focused on your community’s needs. To effectively create strategies, an organization’s leadership must agree on the approach, terminology and philosophy surrounding goals.

The Difference Between Strategic Planning and Having Strategic Focus webinar from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 11 will provide guidance on how to accomplish strategic goals. Specifically, it will explain how the board, executive and clinical leadership can collaboratively develop an approach to the organization’s strategy and implementation; use the diversity of board, leadership and medical staff perspectives to actively debate the merits of differing approaches; and how to carve out time to ask questions like what elements are missing and where is the resistance to new ideas.

Board chairs, CEOs and all governing board members are encouraged to register and join us virtually. MHA-member hospitals can register for an unlimited number of connections per hospital or entity for $250. Members with questions should contact Erica Leyko at the MHA.

Strategic Planning Webinar Available for Hospital Leadership

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Developing and executing strategy requires an organization’s top leadership to agree on the approach, terminology and philosophy surrounding goal setting.

The Difference Between Strategic Planning and Having Strategic Focus webinar will explain how the board, executive and clinical leadership can collaboratively develop an approach to a healthcare organization’s strategic planning and implementation. It will also include strategy guidelines for the role of the board, leadership and medical staff so that each group’s strengths and assets are utilized for the organization’s benefit as well as how to carve out time for this work.

The webinar is scheduled from 1 to 2 p.m. ET Oct. 11. Board chairs, CEOs and all governing board members are encouraged to register. MHA-member hospitals can register for an unlimited number of connections per hospital/entity for $250. Members with questions should contact Erica Leyko at the MHA.

Governance and Leadership Dynamics Important to Community Health

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Healthcare boards and executives have a shared responsibility to keep their organizations on track for the good of their communities. Optimizing the CEO-governing board connection and interdependency ignites a synergistic combination of governance and leadership.

The webinar You and Your Board: Creating a Synergistic Combination will be offered from noon to 1 p.m. April 27 and will focus on how strategies, alignment and accountability change over time to meet community needs. It will also explain how to establish a well-defined development and execution process to transform healthcare board strategies and outcomes from good to great. Through an interactive process, registrants will evaluate and identify how to elevate the individual and group performance of the board.

MHA-member hospitals can register for an unlimited number of connections per hospital/entity for $200. For more information, contact Erin Steward at the MHA.

Final Session in Webinar Series Focuses on Rural Healthcare

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The final webinar in an ongoing series on leadership approaches designed to assist with post-pandemic strategic planning will address strategies for strengthening rural healthcare. Rural Healthcare Delivery in Recovery is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Aug. 19.  

An entire cross section of America is now facing the real risk of having no local hospital to turn to. Benjamin Anderson, former CEO of Kearny County Hospital, Lakin, Kansas, will outline the factors closing rural hospitals across the country, the consequences, and how he and the leadership team transformed rural healthcare in his community through a mission-driven approach to recruiting physicians to underserved areas and patient-centered care.

Participants in this session may earn up to one American College of Healthcare Executives Qualified Education Hour toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives designation.

Members can register for this session for $50, and a health system can register for an unlimited number of logins for a flat-rate fee of $200. A recording of webinar will be available for four weeks following the webinar. Questions about the webinar series should be directed to Erin Steward at the MHA.

PTSD, Rural Health Innovation Discussed in Final Leadership Series Sessions

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The final two webinars in an ongoing series on leadership approaches designed to assist with post-pandemic strategic planning are scheduled for July 15 and Aug. 19 from noon to 1 p.m. EDT.

LipkinLeading your Team and Culture Past the Collective COVID-19 PTSD to an Emotionally Healthy Workplace, offered July 15, will describe how to lead through post-traumatic stress disorder following the height of the pandemic. Session faculty Nicole Lipkin has worked with the American Academy of Osteopathic Surgeons and global companies like Honda and Visa. She will outline behaviors and practices that increase organizational and individual resilience and emotional sustainability.

AndersonRural Healthcare Delivery in Recovery will be presented by Benjamin Anderson, former CEO of Kearny County Hospital, Lakin, KS, and faculty for the 2018 MHA Breakthrough. In this Aug. 19 session, Anderson will explain how he and the leadership team transformed rural healthcare through a mission-driven approach to recruiting physicians to underserved areas and patient-centered care.

Participants may earn up to one American College of Healthcare Executives Qualified Education Hour for each of the remaining two sessions of the series toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives designation.

Members can register for a single webinar for $50, and a health system can register for an unlimited number of logins to a single webinar for a flat-rate fee of $200. A recording of the two previous webinars on diversity and inclusion and supply chain excellence are available through July 3 and July 17, respectively, for participants in those sessions. Participants in the July 15 and Aug. 19 webinars will have access to those recordings for four weeks following each webinar. Questions about the webinar series should be directed to Erin Steward at the MHA.

Series of Webinars Features Global Diversity and Psychology Leaders

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An ongoing series of MHA webinars on leadership approaches is designed to Kim Blue, VP of People Experience Partners at Zoomassist with post-pandemic strategic planning.

In the webinar to be presented from noon to 1 p.m. June 3, Kim Blue, the global head of People Experience Partners at Zoom, will describe how to create and execute organizational diversity and inclusion strategies based on her experience with Zoom, ESPN and Microsoft. Whether she is consulting one-on-one or leading training for hundreds of people, Blue coaches people to step beyond the shore of diversity and really explore the ocean that is inclusion.

In a webinar offered from noon to 1 p.m. July 15,  Nicole Lipkin will describe how to lead through post-traumatic stress disNicole Lipkin, PSY.D., M.B.A.order following the height of the pandemic. Lipkin has worked with the American Academy of Osteopathic Surgeons and global companies like Honda and Visa. She will explore behaviors and practices that increase organizational and individual resilience and emotional sustainability.

By attending the webinar series, with sessions offered through August, participants may earn up to one American College of Healthcare Executives Qualified Education Hour per session toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives designation.

Members can register for single webinars for a fee of $50 each. A health system can register for an unlimited number of logins to a single webinar for a flat-rate fee of $200 or for an unlimited number of logins to all remaining webinars at a flat-rate fee of $750. A recording of the April 29 webinar on the use of technology following the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring Daniel Kraft, MD, is available through May 26 for participants in the session, as well as for systems that pay the $750 flat rate and individuals who pay $200 for all remaining sessions. Questions about the webinar series should be directed to Erin Steward at the MHA.