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In This Issue Letter from the President….Pg 1

Chapter Announcements & Updates ….Pg 2

Member Reflections on Event ...Pg 4

HCAT Events Info..…Pg 6

Selected ACHE News ...Pg 7

Member Reflections on Event ...Pg 4

Letter from the HCAT

Chapter President

June 2015

Greetings HCAT members and

Happy Summer to all of you! I hope

that you are able to join us at our

chapter events and participate in our

chapter activities this year. We held

our first Face-to-Face event for the

year on April 30 on “Ensuring Your

Community’s Emergency

Preparedness” at Norfolk Yacht Club.

We had a great turnout for this event,

and the panelists provided interesting

and engaging presentations. We

hope that you will be able to join us at

our next Face-to-Face event, which

will be held on June 30, on “The

Healthcare Organization's Role in

Formulating Public Policy” at Town

Point Club , Norfolk, VA. Our

Programs Committee has done a

wonderful job this year on planning

these events, and they are working

diligently developing valuable Face-

to-Face events and networking

events this year. There will be more

event details on upcoming chapter

events soon, so please look for them

in your emails from Eventbrite. We

hope that you will be able to attend

these events to earn some ACHE

qualified education credits, while

enjoying opportunities for

professional development and

networking with other members.

We are also pleased to announce that our HCAT chapter website has recently been redesigned, with more mobile-friendly and useful features. We are grateful to Eric Henry and Zoe Kind for their hard work on redesigning our website. Our chapter website can be found at:

http://hcat.ache.org

Remember that our members can earn ACHE service points for volunteering with our chapter. Opportunities for sponsorship are also available for our HCAT events, so please let us know if your organization is willing to sponsor an upcoming event. We are truly grateful for your continued support of our chapter and ACHE.

Warmest regards,

Maria Kronenburg, Ph.D., M.B.A.

President

Healthcare Administrators of Tidewater

Contact us via email at

info@hcat.ache.org

HCAT local ACHE chapter web site:

http://hcat.ache.org

June 2015

Next event

June 30, 2015

“The Healthcare

Organization's Role

in Formulating Public

Policy”

Category Class: Face-

to-Face Credits: 1.5

5:30pm to 6:30pm

Networking

6:30pm to 8:00pm Panel

Location:

Town Point Club

101 West Main Street

Norfolk, VA 23510

RSVP at Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.

com/e/hcat-the-

healthcare-

organizations-role-in-

formulating-public-

policy-tickets-

16961200407?ref=ecal

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HCAT Announcements & Updates

ACHE Leader-to-Leader Program

Chapter Members Can Encourage Colleagues to Join or Advance to

Fellow -They’ll Earn Great Rewards Through the Leader-to-Leader

Program! Through the Program, each time a new Member is recruited or a

current Member becomes an ACHE Fellow with the encouragement of another

ACHE member (sponsor must be noted on their application), one point is

awarded that can be redeemed for quality reward items. Be sure to visit

ache.org/L2L for more details about the Program, where members can also

print referral cards to ensure sponsor credit and use the Tell-A-Colleague

feature to customize an email on the benefits of membership.

CareerEDGE Resources from ACHE

ACHE is pleased to bring you a unique, interactive and

comprehensive tool for planning and managing your career—

CareerEDGE™, available as a complimentary benefit to ACHE

members.

CareerEDGE features:

A personalized online “Career Dashboard” featuring career

planning tools, job site links, news items and other career resources

Access to several free assessments including a 360º Working Style

tool and a modified version of ACHE’s popular Healthcare

Leadership Competencies Assessment Tool

— An innovative career planning framework to guide your

thinking about career success in healthcare today and in the

future and help you build a solid career plan document

— A process to help you make the connection between clarifying

goals, identifying the competencies required for success, assessing

the level of progress toward developing needed skill sets, and

identifying programs, products and services that align with your

leadership development efforts

CareerEDGE is an easy-to-navigate, one-stop source for the full

array of resources needed for a strategic approach to career

management at any career level. Visit:

http://www.ache.org/newclub/career/career_development.cfm

2015 HCAT BOARD

Executive Officers:

President: Maria

Kronenburg, MBA, Ph.D.

President-Elect: Eric

Young, MHA, FACHE

Treasurer: Eric Henry,

MBA-HA, MAcc

Secretary: Mary

Cothran, MBA, FACHE

Past President: Heidi

Thomas, MBA

Members at Large:

Kelly W. Brown, MBA,

MPH

John Harding, MBA,

FACHE

Kara Gormont, Lt Col,

USAF, MSC, FACHE,

CFAAMA

Stephen Friedrich, MBA,

FACHE

Leigh Starr, MHA,

FACHE

Tyrone Davis, MBA

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Please Join Us for Our June 30 HCAT Event

“The Healthcare Organization's Role in Formulating Public Policy”

Town Point Club

101 West Main Street

Norfolk, VA 23510

5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served

Panelists:

Brent Ibata, Ph.D., JD, MPH, Director of Cardiac Research and Education, Sentara Heart Hospital

Bassam Kawwass, MHA, FACHE, Healthcare Leadership & Management Consultants

Brian C. Martin, Ph.D., MBA, Associate Professor and Director, EVMS Graduate Program in Public Health

ACHE Member $25

ACHE Student $15

Non-Member $35

1.5 Face-to-Face ACHE education credits. Register for this event at the Eventbrite link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hcat-the-healthcare-organizations-role-in-formulating-

public-policy-tickets-16961200407?ref=ecal

Description: Many of society’s most critical issues confront healthcare organizations

daily. From access for the uninsured and underinsured, children and elder care

initiatives, patient safety and Medicare and Medicaid changes, healthcare

organizations must address myriad issues. In addition, healthcare must also deal with

payer demands for cost containment and the growing expectation for transparency.

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Reflections oHCAT Events

Member Reflections on April 30 Event “Emergency Preparedness”

By Ashley Clary, FACHE, MHA

On Thursday, April 30, 2015, the Healthcare Administrators of Tidewater chapter of ACHE hosted an event on “Emergency

Preparedness” at the Norfolk Yacht & Country Club. Member at large, Tyrone Davis, MBA served as an excellent

moderator personalizing the evening by sharing experiences in emergency preparedness while serving in several

leadership roles within the Air Force, with his final being as Chief Enlisted Manager/VP Operations, Lakenheath Air Force

Base Hospital. The evening’s panelists provided a well-rounded perspective to emergency preparedness and management

both locally and globally and included the following leaders:

Joann Frye, Col, USAF, NC, MSHA, BSN, NE-BC is a 26 year Air Force Nurse serving as an executive team member

whose team partners with Air Base Wing teams to anticipate, respond, and recover emergencies and is responsible

for Air Force Medical Contingency Response and Disease Containment Plans.

Joseph James Legan, MD, CPE, is board certified in Orthopedic surgery and currently the Vice President of Medical

Affairs at Sentara Princess Anne Hospital. Prior to joining Sentara, he commanded a mobile field hospital assigned

to work with civilian authorities in disaster settings. He also graduated from the DOD Assistance to Civilian

Authorities course.

Jim Redick is the Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response for the City of Norfolk, VA. He is a Certified

Emergency Manager with the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and the 2012 Virginia

Emergency Management Professional of the Year.

This experienced panel each provided valuable insight to emergency planning and while each came from difference sectors

of the healthcare environment they each reinforced that the key attributes to successful emergency planning and

management are collaboration and open communication.

Colonial Frye enlightened the audience on the role of the Air Force Medical Services (AFMS) on which she serves as an

executive team member. The AFMS Mission is to enable medically fit forces, provide expeditionary medics, and improve

the health of all to meet the Nation's needs. She discussed how this mission is fulfilled through proactive planning and

training but also through global deployment when needed. A recent demonstration of this global deployment occurred in

September of 2014 when the AFMS were called to support in West Africa during the Ebola outbreak, in Operation United

Assistance. Ground breaking in this mission was the collaboration between the Air Force, Navy, DOD, and the CDC in a

joint task force. This team deployed and set up a fully functioning modular hospital with surgical ICU level coverage in less

than a month, to care for those stricken with Ebola. However, just as healthcare leaders here in the US were learning daily

from experiences from the CDC and adapting policies accordingly, the teams associated with United Assistance had to

remain flexible and responsive to new requirements and safety levels in order to protect those serving and provide care to

those infected. Leadership in the armed forces partnered with the CDC leadership to open communication enabling

resources from both groups to focus on a the key objectives at hand in a rapid time frame – which led to the successful

completion of the mission, further preventing spread of the disease outside of West Africa (continued on next page).

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Member Reflections on “Emergency Preparedness” (continued)

Dr. Legan provided an overview of the Emergency Preparedness process at Sentara Healthcare. Like

many healthcare systems nationally, Sentara Healthcare has worked on standardizing and unifying its

process both internally and with local community support systems. The key to successful emergency

management within the Hampton Roads region has been proactive notification and communication from

the hospitals to Virginia Hospital Alerting and Status System (VHASS) which ties the system to the state

Department of Emergency Preparedness. Key statistics such as blood supply and ventilator access are

provided daily so that when a disaster strikes within the local area, emergency responders know when

and how to triage patients accordingly. When emergencies are reported, the VHASS determines if it

should be managed locally, regionally through the incident command center housed at Riverside, or at

the state level with resources deployed from Richmond. Dr. Legan, expounded that networks such as the

VHASS can only be effective with proactive planning and transparent communication. Fortunately the

local hospitals have worked well together to support community emergency medical needs.

Finally, Jim Redick provided a thorough overview to Norfolk’s emergency framework aptly named: Team

Norfolk Emergency Operations. The committee supporting this team is comprised of all emergency

support function sand includes community partners, such as local hospitals, to ensure a well-managed

comprehensive city wide response to all-hazards. The Norfolk plan correlates with state and federal level

arrangements which when effectively deployed seamlessly manage any level of disaster. Mr. Redick

reminded the HCAT members that hospitals are only one facet to community emergency management,

but a critical component. Through this presentation the audience quickly realized the critical structures

developed between transportation, communication, housing, public health, and security services within

the city and whenever any single area is disrupted, all others can be critically affected. An example of this

that we experience annually is inclement weather concerns; snow or flooding impact staff being able to

safely reach the hospital due to limited transportation options, housing options, or childcare resources.

Mr. Redick and his team coordinate communication between community sectors to ensure the

community has a plan for extended disaster – which enables hospital leadership to proactively work with

their staff to ensure that essential personnel have a plan in place so they can confidently provide vital

services to the community and know that those in their personal life are safe.

Emergencies are inevitable – especially in healthcare. Whether it’s a surge of fifty patients due to a plane

crash in a residential area or a foot of snow falling overnight preventing travel for staff and patients –

hospitals must be prepared to manage accordingly. This requires planning and to effectively coordinate

resources hospitals MUST communicate transparently and collaborate internally and externally within the

community. (Ms. Clary is the Director of Neuroscience at Sentara Healthcare and Imaging Services and has served

in the leadership role of Neurosciences since 2009. She is a former board member and Past-President of HCAT)

Visit Our Redesigned HCAT Chapter Website

Please visit our redesigned chapter webpage at http://hcat.ache.org/ .The most significant

change is in the homepage which is now more user-friendly, has an embedded newsletter with

greater functionality, a hosted order page for all our EventBrite activities and a calendar

displaying upcoming events. We are indebted to Eric Henry and Zoe Kind for their hard work

and support on this project.

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HCAT TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF FACE-TO-FACE

EVENTS 2015

A tentative monthly schedule of events has been developed, but

specific details of events will be available soon. Please look for more

upcoming event information via Eventbrite email invitations &

registration links soon.

-July/August (date & details to be determined)-Data Analytics

-September (date & details to be determined)-Healthcare Safety

-October (date & details to be determined)-Improving the Health Status

of Your Community (jointly sponsored with CVHEG).

-December (date and details to be determined)-Applying Lean Six

Sigma

GET INVOLVED WITH OUR CHAPTER! HCAT welcomes volunteers for active

participation on its chapter committees, including the Programs Committee, the

Sponsorship Committee, the Communications Committee, the Membership

Committee, and the ACHE Fellow Development Committee. HCAT appreciates

your time, ideas, and valuable contributions, and members can earn ACHE

recognition points! If you are interested in volunteering and participating on any

of these committees, contact us at: info@hcat.ache.org . Please let us know if

you would like to sponsor a future event or volunteer for HCAT. Visit our local

chapter web site at: http://hcat.ache.org

Congratulations to John Harding, FACHE, and current HCAT board Member-At-

Large, for his recent promotion to Chief Operating Officer at Children’s Health System.

Congratulations to Kelly W. Brown, for receiving a 2015 ACHE Early Career Healthcare Executive Regent Award. She currently serves as Director of the

enterprise Medicare Cost of Care Program at Anthem, Inc. Kelly has been an active member, leader and board member of HCAT for over 7 years. She is the Co-Chair of

the Programs Committee.

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rational and administrative infrastructures provide support.

ACHE National News-Selected Updates

2014 Hospital Executive Salary Information

ACHE's Career Resource Center has made available compensation data from Sullivan, Cotter and Associates, Inc.'s 2014 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey Report. Review the results of the survey, which contains data from over 1,500 healthcare organizations across the United States on over 250 system-level jobs and over 200 hospital-level jobs. After you review the data, remember to check out ACHE's Career Resource Center for comprehensive career resources to enhance your professional development.

Exam Online Community Offers a Complimentary Interactive Learning Platform

Members preparing for the Board of Governors Examination can access the Exam Online Community as a complimentary and supplementary resource that can boost their confidence and help them succeed. The online community is an interactive platform to learn and glean study tips from other Members taking the Exam. Plus, there is the opportunity to discuss Exam topics with experts for a higher level of understanding and the option to participate in study groups. See resources at: http://ache.org/mbership/credentialing/OnlineCommunity/bogcommunity.cfm

ACHE Launches New Social Media Accounts

ACHE has expanded its social media presence once again by relaunching its Facebook and Twitter pages. We will now share news about healthcare management and insight from our organization year-round, in addition to news related to the annual Congress on Healthcare Leadership. ACHE will post on topics relevant to healthcare leaders and share the organization’s content and resources for members and events happening within AChE.

Join ACHE’s more than 4,000 fans on Facebook by “liking” the American College of Healthcare Executives page. You can also follow ACHE on Twitter at our recently relaunched account, @ACHEConnect.

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