ACHE SoCal Blog
PMO for Success
By: Tina Machi, HCE Member A large portion of an IT leader’s time is typically spent on driving, leading, managing, or supporting projects. It does not matter whether we are in Business Engagement, Application Development, Infrastructure, Security or Operations, etc.,...
Thinking About What’s Next in Healthcare Security
By Ben Scaglione, CPP, CHPA, CHSP With vaccine distribution ramping up, normal societal activities are in sight. When normal returns, what will hospital security look like? Will staff increases implemented back in March and April of 2020 stay or be eliminated? Will...
Leader Development: Supercharge your strengths or fix your flaws?
By: Kevin Nourse, PhD I just kicked off a year-long leadership academy for a group of 20 physicians that are members of an international medical academy. As part of the program, I administered an emotional intelligence self-assessment that opened...
Message from ACHE Regent – Winter 2021
Fear and Loathing in Health Care In this new year, it is easy to become overwhelmed by multiple events that seem beyond our control and perhaps feel a sense of doom. On reflection, much of this is fear. Fear is a powerful emotion that drives behaviors. As healthcare...
President’s Message – Fall 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, I want to take a moment to share the many things to be thankful for this year. I have been inspired by the gratitude I see so many of you practice every day, despite the many challenges with COVID. Whether it’s a sincere thank you to a...
Leadership Retreats in the Era of COVID
By: Kevin Nourse, PhD Leadership retreats have traditionally provided valuable opportunities to build relationships and trust, share insights, advance organizational change priorities, and reinforce corporate culture. When conducted at the end of a fiscal or calendar...
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE SUMMER 2020
The last several months have been stressful with world, US and West Coast events. COVID, racial disparities and fires raging have caused me to reflect on my resilience as a leader and how I cope with devastating events. I’ve had colleagues who have been affected by...
MESSAGE FROM ACHE REGENT – SUMMER 2020
“OK, Let’s roll…and hey! let’s be careful out there.” -Sgt. Phil Esterhaus, played by Michael Conrad, Hill Street Blues At the morning roll call, Sgt Phil outlined the priorities for the next shift. He was briefing a group of police officers in the fictional Hill...
Telemedicine Impact on Ambulatory Care Facilities
The COVID-19 pandemic initiated a tidal wave of telehealth and telemedicine usage across the country and around the world. Organizations and practices that had previously saturated geographic regions with ambulatory clinics, are now under tremendous pressure to adapt...
Revisiting Resilience: Strategies to Thrive in the New Normal
As we face future waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is painfully apparent that these conditions have become the new normal for the foreseeable future. In recent webinars on resilience I delivered for HCE SoCAL, several healthcare leaders compared the COVID-19 journey...
Message from ACHE Regent – Spring 2020
Undesignated Leaders I knew the call was coming. All day there were reports of a large demonstration moving toward our hospital. There had been significant looting with the previous night’s protests, and we expected that clashes would ensue between police, protestors...
President’s Message Spring 2020
Dear Colleagues, Over the last several weeks we have come together for our patients, family, friends and community in extraordinary ways to learn how to be safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we practice social distancing in a new way, we are seeing the benefits of...
Message from ACHE Regent – Southern California
Health Care Executives of Southern California is positioned for a wonderful year. The Board of Directors of HCE, under the very able leadership of Dr. Tricia Kassab, FACHE, has launched 2020 with exceptional education programs and networking opportunities for its...
David Nugent
Member Spotlight Performance Improvement Analyst in the Value Improvement Office Keck Medicine of USC Tell us a bit about yourself, your current position and your background. I am originally from the North Shore of Chicago, a group of suburbs just north of the city. I...
Mirna Orihuela, MBA
Member Spotlight Manager of Post-Acute Networks Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital Tell us a bit about yourself, your current position and your background. I’m the Manager of Post-Acute Networks at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital. Prior to joining...
Message from Healthcare Executives of Southern California President
Transformation occurs when organizations recognize the old way of operating can’t deliver the business strategies required to meet new marketplace requirements for success. A key feature of transformation is when a new state of functioning is unknown, and the change...
Emerging Healthcare Leaders: Five Career Traps to Avoid
By Dr. Kevin Nourse Leading healthcare organizations recognize the value of investing in developing high-potential future leaders in order to establish a pipeline of talent ready to step into future management roles. Proactively developing future leaders can make a...