American College of Healthcare Executives

09/07/2026

✅ As an effective healthcare leader, clear communication, credibility and purpose, both inside and outside of your organization, is essential.

This session will help clarify how to be seen and how to consistently show up on LinkedIn as a credible, values-driven leader.

Attendees will learn how to translate real-world leadership experience into a visible, professional brand that aligns values and career interests.

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Designed for executives, senior leaders and rising professionals, this session will blend immediately applicable strategy, real-world examples and practical guidance to strengthen leadership presence and visibility.

09/04/2026

🏥 Healthcare has never been simple, nor should it be.

Our work requires us to navigate evolving science and technologies, diverse patient needs, regulatory oversight, workforce challenges and financial pressures. Complexity is a natural consequence of the mission we serve.

The challenge for healthcare leaders today is not complexity itself. It is managing the growing accumulation of complexity that can make it harder for patients to receive care and for caregivers to provide it.

Over time, healthcare organizations have built impressive capabilities in quality improvement, patient safety, care coordination, compliance, technology and performance management. Each advancement was designed to improve outcomes and strengthen accountability.

Yet complexity is cumulative. New requirements are often added while few are removed. Processes, reports, committees, approvals and decision pathways multiply. What begins as a thoughtful response to a problem can eventually create barriers to getting work done.

The question is not whether healthcare should be complex. It will be. The question is whether we are shaping complexity or allowing it to shape us.

Read the full article by the president and CEO of ACHE, Deborah Bowen, FACHE, CAE, in the latest Healthcare Executive magazine.

09/02/2026

⚕️ From clinician to MBA to U.S. Surgeon General.

In a conversation with Dr. Cheryl Pegus, Dr. Regina Benjamin shares her journey from running a rural medical practice to serving as the 18th U.S. Surgeon General, and how those experiences shaped her commitment to closing gaps in care for people who fall between the cracks of the healthcare system.💡👩‍⚕

This is one episode of the Healthcare Executive podcast you don't want to miss. Available wherever you get podcasts.

08/31/2026

Whether you’ve determined now is the time for you to begin the process toward FACHE or you’re still deciding, the next stop on your journey is our FACHE Overview Webinar.

The FACHE is healthcare management’s most trusted credential and the benchmark of leadership excellence. When it’s time to advance your leadership journey, it’s time to earn your FACHE.

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RETURNING MEMBERS & VISITORS: If you have an existing ACHE website account, please create a new password before signing in for the first time. Create New Password Whether you've determined now is the time for you to begin the process toward FACHE or you...

08/28/2026

Join Dio Sumagaysay, RN, vice president of Perioperative and Multi-Specialty Procedural Services at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), as they share OHSU's real-world journey with an AI-powered solution and how a holistic, platform-based approach to perioperative optimization is driving measurable operational and workforce impact.

This session will begin with a high-level overview of this AI-powered solution's core modules to ground the audience before exploring individual capabilities.

Thank you to LeanTaaS, Inc., an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner, for making this session possible.

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This session will begin with a high-level overview of this AI-powered solution's core modules to ground the audience before exploring individual capabilities. From there, faculty will highlight where OHSU currently is on its AI journey, including how ea...

08/26/2026

💡 Understanding AI means understanding its environment.

Dive into how AI reshapes actions and outcomes in real time in this episode of Healthcare Executive podcast with David P. Rastall, DO, PhD, and Matthew Montoya, DrEng.

Available wherever you get podcasts.

08/26/2026

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who took part in the 2026 Executive Program in Denver.

We have an amazing cohort of leaders who joined the in-depth learning sessions and site visits. Special recognition goes to UCHealth and the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System for hosting our site visits. Your insights, hospitality, and leadership are truly appreciated.

On behalf of the American College of Healthcare Executives, thank you all for your contributions to the healthcare community. We can’t wait for our next stop!