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The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.

Each month AHE will launch short podcasts containing hot topics and emerging trends to bring you useable and valuable information and tips designed to help you learn, enhance your leadership skills, and jump-start your professional development.
Learn the importance of HCAHPS data, value versus volume-based reimbursement, and what changes your organization may need to implement to improve the patient experience, HCAHPS scores, and reimbursement.
This ten-week course explores the range of foundational management practices in environmental services.
Participants will study content areas by reviewing the electronic version of the CHESP Review Guide, 3rd Edition provided within the course. Students will also have the opportunity to interact and collaborate with other CHESP seekers to gain a more comprehensive perspective of the Environmental…
This webinar will review the building blocks to a successful ES career ladder, utilizing AHE’s CHEST and CSCT programs, thus improving metrics and increasing departmental performance to the next level.
This presentation offers an overview of the 2019 Environmental Scan, outlining key themes and trends that the health care field is currently facing during this time of transformation. Understanding the current climate of health in America will help hospital and health system leaders to shape the…
The Federal Trade Commission’s approach to reviewing hospital mergers “is overbroad, does not properly credit the many pro-consumer benefits of hospital transactions, and ignores key realities of the marketplace,” according to an analysis submitted to the agency Friday for a series of FTC hearings…
Megan Callahan, who has a strong background in health information technology, has been hired by the ride-provider Lyft to boost its mission of helping customers get to their medical appointments. Callahan worked most recently as chief strategy officer for the revenue cycle-management firm Change…
Building a culture of value requires addressing human behaviors, including unconscious bias. In this virtual workshop, presenters will share how leading and educating staff to address unconscious bias can invoke community trust and enhance value.
Learn how a Patient Risk Assessment Profile allowed nurses to proactively assess patient risk to guide staffing decisions and nurse-patient assignment. Implementation of this tool improved patient value, reduced adverse events, and avoided unnecessary hospital costs.