NCHL expands its November conference

Throughout its history, NCHL’s annual conference has followed a brisk half-day format, followed by an award / recognition dinner. This year for the first time we are expanding the format to two half-days. Most fundamentally, the change reflects NCHL’s expanding role in supporting healthcare leadership development, as well as the pace of evolution currently taking place in the health sector.

Understanding and preparing for sector-level change

The November 20th afternoon sessions will focus in on sector-wide changes and adaptive responses to these changes. Tom Main from Oliver Wyman and Roy Smythe, MD, from AVIA and HX360 will provide the former, with Rick Brush from Collective Health and David Erickson from the Center for Community Development Investments introducing the latter. In between sessions attendees will be encouraged to participate in discussions about what these changes mean for their own organizations, as well as how we can best move forward collectively in support of improving health.

Best Organizations for Leadership Development

The November 21nd morning sessions feature presentation teams representing many of the organizations being recognized this year as Best Organizations for Leadership Development, including Penn Medicine, NorthShore-LIJ, Sutter, Duke Regional, University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation, Henry Ford Health System, Stanford Health, Cone Health. and Cleveland Clinic. Sessions will focus on high-priority topics including strategic alignment with organizational goals, physician leadership development, diversity & inclusions, and innovations in efficiently recruiting and developing leadership talent. We will also be discussing work NCHL and our partner organizations are doing to support more collaborative approaches to the national administrative fellowships process.

The Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award

The evening of November 20th, we have the opportunity to recognize two outstanding healthcare leaders, Nancy Schlichting and Dr. Glenn Steele, Jr.  In addition to providing well-deserved recognition for these two pioneers in the field, this fundraising  event helps support NCHL’s work throughout the year in support of healthcare leadership development.

We hope you will join us in November for these terrific events, and help us spread the word.

On behalf of NCHL and its stakeholder groups, thank you for your support.

 

– Andrew N. Garman, PsyD

NCHL Chief Executive Officer

 

 

‘Big data’ and the Learning Healthcare System: Implications for leadership development

Last week, the Health Organization Research Association held their annual meeting at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Friday’s program was dedicated to an exploration of healthcare organizational excellence using publicly available datasets.The morning began with the National Center for Healthcare Leadership introducing their collaborative Organizational Excellence (‘OrgX’) initiative, whose goal is to reduce entry barriers for academics and practitioners to collaboratively access healthcare organization datasets and expertise. Next on the program