Day three of SJC Healthcare Symposium

On Wednesday, July 25th, a panel comprised of Steve Chies, Keith Baldwin, and Dr. Joe Botler will discuss ways to prevent hospital readmissions.   It is critical for health care providers to work together to keep patients out of the hospital.  Steve, Keith and Dr. Botler will offer some ways to accomplish this!

In the afternoon choose from one of the following sessions:

• Health Care Reform & the Future for Long-Term Care Providers presented by Steve Chies, or
• Health Care for the Homeless, presented by Doreen Fadus.

Come for one day or for all five days!!!! Find out more HERE!

Day Two of SJC's Healthcare Symposium

On Tuesday, July 24th Dr. Merrill Matthews, will be presenting about the Ethics of Healthcare Reform.  Have you ever wondered if healthcare reform initiatives are morally right?  Are we getting off track?  Healthcare is so complicated!  Come listen to Dr. Matthews help us understand the ethics of all of this reform!

In the afternoon you Phil Dubois will be presentation a session titled:

From Administrator to Resident: Perspective from the Other Side

Come for one day or for all five days!!!! Find out more HERE!

Healthcare Symposium

On Monday, July 23rd, Sr. Carol Keehan, CEO of the Catholic Health Association will be presenting about health care reform! 

In the afternoon you can choose between the following breakout sessions:

• What every clinician and healthcare professional needs to know about destructive/exploitive cults, or
• Innovations in Eldercare, or
• Integrating Mission.

Come for one day or for all five days!!!! Find out more HERE!

Don't forget to register for the 5th Annual Health Administration Symposium at Saint Joseph's College!!  The dates are July 23rd through 27th.  You can come for one day or all five...and everything in between!!!!  We have an amazing lineup of presenters this year and we are also offering tracks in long-term care administration, radiologic science administration and leadership!!!!!  This is a symposium you do not want to miss!!!

http://online.sjcme.edu/health-administration-symposium.php

Research Assistance Needed

I am seeking your assistance. I am studying the relationship between emotional intelligence and health care leadership competencies as part of my doctoral degree research. If you would be willing participate in this study, it would help with the refinement of a health care leadership model. Also, please forward this freely to others working in health care settings!  

As you know, health care in the United States is very complex and there is increasing pressure to reform. Consequently, much is required of leaders in health care organizations. The identification of a comprehensive leadership competence model specific to health care organizations will help with the training and development of leaders. Emotional intelligence may be a key factor, but we do not know for certain until the correlation is studied quantitatively. 

If you are currently a manager or supervisor in a health care organization and between the ages of 18 and 80 years, please consider helping with this research!   

All you have to do is complete an online survey yourself, and ask three to five others to also assess you using an online survey. 

All responses will be kept confidential. None of your results will be reported. Only aggregate data will be analyzed. 

If you are willing to do this, please take the survey right away by clicking on the following link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/healthleadershipcomps

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me directly at 207-809-9844 or 207-893-7993. 


Thank you!

Twila Weiszbrod, DBA Candidate, MPA 
Director, Health Administration Programs 
Graduate & Professionals Studies Division 
Saint Joseph's College of Maine

Salute to Long Term Care Administrators

March 12-16, 2012 is National Long Term Care Administrator's Week. As part of that celebration, Long Term Living magazine has published an article on its website. The article, by Marianna Kern Grachek, President and CEO of the American College of Health Care Administrators, is titled “Saluting today’s (and tomorrow’s) LTC administrators.” It describes the role of today’s long term care administrators and the pressures they face. The article, which can be found at http://www.ltlmagazine.com/article/saluting-today-s-and-tomorrow-s-ltc-administrators. Our own John Pratt, Assistant Program Director, assisted Ms. Grachek in developing the article.

March 12-16, 2012 is National Long Term Care Administrator's Week. As part of that celebration, Long Term Living magazine has published an article on its website. The article, by Marianna Kern Grachek, President and CEO of the American College of Health Care Administrators, is titled “Saluting today’s (and tomorrow’s) LTC administrators.” It describes the role of today’s long term care administrators and the pressures they face. The article can be found at http://www.ltlmagazine.com/article/saluting-today-s-and-tomorrow-s-ltc-administrators. Our own John Pratt, Assistant Program Director, assisted Ms. Grachek in developing the article.

Happy Long Term Care Administrators’ Week!

 The week of March 12-16 has been designated by the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) to celebrate the contributions of Long Term Care Administrators nationally, and to recognize the importance of such a noble profession.

The first known example of a long-term care administrator is referenced in the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan. The injured man was left with an innkeeper who agreed to tend to his needs for a length of time. Today, the administrator’s role and responsibilities have grown tremendously. In an age of increasing elder demographics, a baby boomer generation with a strong consumer orientation, mobile extended family, increasing expectations regarding quality, increasingly complex medical conditions and treatments, growing rate of lawsuits, stringent regulations, uncertainty around various health care reform initiatives, a need to provide “quality of life” as well as “quality of care” amidst a more diverse cultural population, and the need to exercise financial stewardship when revenues decrease and expenses increase, the administrator must strike a balance that is increasingly challenging to find. Nursing facilities are responsible for the entire care of their residents 24/7/365, sometimes for years, with a margin for error of essentially zero. All of this care ultimately rests on the shoulders of the administrator.

Today’s administrators serve out of an enormous sense of dedication and compassion. Despite the challenges they face, they diligently and enthusiastically aspire to meet the needs and desires of each resident to the best of their ability. Most administrators will deflect any praise to their front-line staff, as is deserved. For this week, let’s tip our hats to the devoted professionals who have chosen the career of long-term care administration. To my colleagues in this field, I salute you!

Phil DuBois

Congratulations to the Maine Chapter of ACHCA!!

The Maine ACHCA chapter was selected to receive two (2) achievement awards at ACHCA's 50th anniversary convocation in Nashville. The first award is for their business affiliate program and the other for the membership recruitment and retention project! This is certainly an outstanding accomplishment and contributes to the five (5) awards they have received in the past for the following initiatives:


1. Maine Chapter Newsletter
2. Leaders as Mentors Program
3. Chapter Participation in ACHCA Initiatives
4. Chapter Leadership Initiative
5. Chapter Revitalization Project

Congratulations for all of your hard work and dedication!!  We are proud to be affiliated with you!

Healthcare's Future: Realizing the Promise

The 5th Annual Health Administration Symposium at Saint Joseph's College of Maine is scheduled for

July 23 through 27, 2012

In keeping with this year's 100 year anniversary of the college, this year the symposium will be bigger and better than ever!

Sr. Carol Keehan, CEO of the Catholic Health Association is scheduled to give us an update of health care reform.

Dr. Merrill Matthews will be speaking about the ethics of health care reform.

Keith Baldwin will be discussing physician integration in light of recent mandates of health care reform.

We have also planned three panel discussions:

• Steve Chies, Keith Baldwin and Dr. Doug Salvador will be taking on the difficult issue of preventing hospital readmissions.
• Debra Kramlich, Deb Palmer and Lois Skillings will be applying the concepts of evidence-based practice to interdisciplinary leadership in a real world context, and
• Ben Sawyer, Tom Brunelle, Jon Abeles and Dr. Inron Androbi will be tackling the topic of really improving operational performance in health care organizations.

New this year, we will also be offering three tracks of breakout sessions!  One track will feature topics specific to the field of radiologic technology, another will focus on issues related to long-term care administration and the last will focus on interdisciplinary leadership.

More details will follow, but you will definitely want to reserve the date!!!  You are welcome to attend the entire week-long symposium on beautiful Sebago Lake or you can come for one or more days!