The Connecticut Association of Healthcare Executives

An ACHE Chapter

Message from Your ACHE Regent – Winter 2021

Message from Your ACHE Regent
Winter 2021

How do you promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in your workplace? Do you regularly schedule education to further increase awareness and learn what the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion is for your work environment? Does new employee orientation have components that address diversity in the workplace? These are a few of many questions that, as healthcare leaders, we should be asking ourselves. Our business practices are enhanced when we have principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion aligned with daily work. As a result, we will find that we have a more engaged and productive workforce. As you self-reflect on how you promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, I invite you to introduce one new practice or approach on this subject matter this month in your workplace. The ACHE website serves as a resource for you on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as well.

ACHE is also a 2020 partner with the Carol Emmott Foundation’s Equity Collaborative. The Collaborative is an active self- leading community of large leading healthcare organizations that are committed to inclusive gender equity within their organizations and the healthcare industry. Many of the organizations involved in the Equity Collaborative have made a three-year commitment to be part of the collaborative. Kudos to Yale New Haven Health for being one of these organizations. And recognition to a past ACHE chairwoman, Gayle L. Capozzalo, FACHE, President and CEO of JGF Strategies, LLC, for her participation as a board member of the Carol Emmott Foundation. More information on the Equity Collaborative can be found on ACHE’s website.

Your chapter continues to promote Diversity Equity and Inclusion to include this week providing a webinar on February 18th, Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Disparities, The Problems, The Promises, The Prognosis”. I encourage you to sign up for the webinar.

Thanks to CTAHE’s President, Kimberly A. Lumia, MSN, RN, FACHE, and the Board for offering members a wide variety of virtual online programs. If you browse the chapter’s website, you will be sure to find a virtual event that meets your leadership or networking needs. And a reminder, ACHE 2021 Congress on Healthcare Leadership will be held virtually, March 22nd – 25th. While we will not be in person with fellow ACHE members, the program content is exceptional.

I’ve written to you in some of my former Regent messages about fostering the profession of healthcare leadership with our students. The recent loss of Chris Roberts, a student board member of CTAHE, reminds me that paying it forward is so important. We have all experienced a variety of feelings with the pandemic and have learned to lead perhaps differently. Please reach out and support the students who are our leaders of tomorrow. If we feel and lead a bit differently than in the past, students need connection with us even more at this time.

Regards,

Denise Fiore, FACHE
Regent for Connecticut

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The Connecticut Association of Healthcare Executives

The Connecticut Association of Healthcare Executives (CTAHE) represents professionals who manage the business affairs of healthcare organizations throughout the state of Connecticut. No other professional association is more inclusive and essential for meeting the career needs and interests of healthcare executives in Connecticut as the healthcare industry transforms to value-based care.

Our CTAHE membership strives to be inclusive of all healthcare stakeholders spanning not only hospitals, health plans, health systems, and independent physician associations, but our universities that are educating our future healthcare administrators.

The Connecticut Association of Healthcare Executives (CTAHE) is a chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives, which you can read more about below.

The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)

The American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of more than 40,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare organizations. ACHE offers its prestigious FACHE® credential, signifying board certification in healthcare management.

ACHE’s established network of 80 chapters provides access to networking, education and career development at the local level. In addition, ACHE is known for its magazine, Healthcare Executive, and its career development and public policy programs. Through such efforts, ACHE works toward its goal of being the premier professional society for healthcare executives dedicated to improving healthcare delivery.

The Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives was established to further advance healthcare management excellence through education and research. The Foundation of ACHE is known for its educational programs—including the annual Congress on Healthcare Leadership, which draws more than 4,000 participants—and groundbreaking research.

Its publishing division, Health Administration Press, is one of the largest publishers of books and journals on health services management including textbooks for college and university courses. For more information about ACHE, click here.