Volunteer Spotlight | Sanjit K. Sodhi

Volunteer Spotlight | Sanjit K. Sodhi

Sanjit K. Sodhi, FACHE, is involved with the Membership Advancement and Career Development & Transition committees with CAHL. Sanjit was one in a cohort of twelve 2022 ACHE’s Thomas C Dolan Executive Diversity Scholars. She is Chief Operating Officer for Kaiser...
Mentorship Spotlight | Kristine Cannon

Mentorship Spotlight | Kristine Cannon

Kristine Cannon, MPH, FACHE,  is Director, Quality Improvement at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. For more information on pairing as a mentee with one of CAHL’s 100+ mentors, or becoming a mentor yourself, check out CAHL’s formal mentorship program...
Volunteer Spotlight | McKenna Zoucha

Volunteer Spotlight | McKenna Zoucha

McKenna Zoucha, MBA, is Co-Chair of the CA Valley Local Programming Council. In her role, she oversees programming for educational and networking events in her local area.  Please tell us a bit about what you’ve been doing as a volunteer and why you chose to...
Remembering Someone Special on Father’s Day

Remembering Someone Special on Father’s Day

By Michael O’Connell Father’s Day is a special time to celebrate the contributions made by fathers throughout the United States. Fathers are as different and varied as each one of us. Everyone has a father however it takes a special person to be a Dad. My Dad lived...
Volunteer Spotlight | Mateika Martin, MHA, EMT

Volunteer Spotlight | Mateika Martin, MHA, EMT

Please tell us a bit about what you’ve been doing as a volunteer, and why you chose to take that particular role. I currently volunteer as the Vice Chair for the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee for the CAHL Chapter of ACHE. I started my ACHE...
Acute Care for the Elderly Units: A Primer

Acute Care for the Elderly Units: A Primer

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans over 65 will number more than 77 million by 2034. Seventeen percent of these older adults are twice as likely as middle-aged adults to require hospitalization at least once a year (Covinsky & Palmer, 2021). They’re...
Policy Watch: Assembly Bill 425 – Medi-Cal Pharmacogenomics

Policy Watch: Assembly Bill 425 – Medi-Cal Pharmacogenomics

By Chantelle Schenning and Megan Boyd Pharmacogenomics is the science of how an individual’s genetic makeup impacts the way they process medications, having huge impacts on whether the medication is effective, helps, harms, or potentially kills the patient taking it....
Mentorship Spotlight | Matthew Eagens

Mentorship Spotlight | Matthew Eagens

Matthew Eagens, MPH, is a Support Services Administrator with Kaiser Permanente in the East Bay Service Area. He shares his insights as a mentor in the Fall 2022 Formal Mentor Program. Describe your CAHL Formal Mentor program cohort experience.  “It was a...
Member Spotlight | Yevgeny Ostrovskiy

Member Spotlight | Yevgeny Ostrovskiy

Yevgeny Ostrovskiy is involved with two CAHL committees related to career growth. He shares how networking with CAHL has led to meaningful connections have driven his own career and industry relationships forward. Please tell us a bit about what you’ve been...
Making the Pivot to a Health Tech Startup

Making the Pivot to a Health Tech Startup

By Sarah T. Khan Focus on people and quality, and money will follow. For years, this mantra has helped me achieve multi-million-dollar transformations at small and large health systems through improved productivity, efficiency, culture, and quality.  But there are...
Cultivating a Mindset of Optimism

Cultivating a Mindset of Optimism

By Pauline Orr The mindset of optimism is a curious one that can be applied to both personal and professional situations and settings. It can come naturally to some, and for others, it’s a learned skill that must be honed over time. Optimism is not ignoring the...

2022 HEN Scholarship Winners

Undergraduate Scholarship Winner Tehroop Notra CAHL: What school are you currently attending and what is your major? Tehroop: Currently I attend CSU, Sacramento where I am completing my undergrad in Public Health with an emphasis is Healthcare Administration. CAHL:...
Volunteer Spotlight | Kimberly Duangchai Lamountry

Volunteer Spotlight | Kimberly Duangchai Lamountry

Please tell us a bit about what you’ve been doing as a volunteer, and why you chose to take that particular role. I currently serve as a member of the CAHL HEN committee and I am the Vice Chair of the CAHL Student council. In these roles, I bridge the connection...
Gratitude and Giving Lead to Quadruple “Wins”

Gratitude and Giving Lead to Quadruple “Wins”

Laura Palmer, DHA, CMT, CLT, knows that a culture of health starts with service. As a member of the CAHL Volunteer Outreach and Member Recognition Committee, she shares her passion for volunteering this month and encourages all members to seek out opportunities to...
Regent’s Message | June 2023 – Call for Regent’s Awards Nominations

Regent’s Message – Fall 2022

Year End Reflection As you approach the end of the year, it is an important time for leaders to self-reflect on how the year has gone, celebrate successes and develop plans for the new year, and think about priorities for your own personal development as well as the...
Regent’s Message | June 2023 – Call for Regent’s Awards Nominations

Regent’s Message – September 2022

As we reach the end of summer, I trust that you and your teams have taken time away from work to rest and recharge with friends and family.  As we transition to a new “steady state” phase of the pandemic with new CDC guidance , we continue to be faced with challenges...
Member Spotlight | Carla Stanley

Member Spotlight | Carla Stanley

Carla Stanley, HC,BSN,RN,FACHE,HCM-BC,NEA-BC Chief Nurse Executive with Cal Corrections Health Care Services. Carla Stanley was honored with a 2022 Service Award at this year’s CAHL Annual Meeting, held in August 2022.  Carla learned servant leadership at an early...
Celebration Meals as the Key Ingredient to Fostering Belonging and Equity

Celebration Meals as the Key Ingredient to Fostering Belonging and Equity

In 2019, I began a program to offer celebration meals for holidays and cultural events to celebrate diversity through food and to highlight different cuisines. Not only did this effort serve as a way to encourage inclusivity through observances, but it also provided a jovial means of educating staff members, patients, and partners on culturally or religiously significant days throughout the year.

Are You (Really) Listening? A Note from the Chapter President – October 2022

Honk! Beep! Beep! A Note from the Chapter President – September 2022

In our CAHL service area, work commutes can range from 30 to 150 minutes. Since COVID-19, many of you have a commute from your kitchen to your office – 10 steps within your home. Regardless of the commute, we all have time to think and can decide to be stressed, calm, frazzled, or relaxed. When we encounter traffic delays, we can make a conscious choice to be mindful or not. We can be emotionally reactive, angry, frustrated, and stressed during our commute, or we can make a choice and be mindful, relaxed, patient, and calm. I encourage you to work on creating a mindful perspective with these ideas to consider during your commuting time: 

Regent’s Letter – March 2018

Regent’s Letter – March 2018

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” -R. Buckminster Fuller I am honored to offer this message written to complement this issue of the newsletter of our local ACHE chapter, the California Association of Healthcare Leaders (CAHL). But first, welcome to...
ACHE National News

ACHE National News

Updates on the 2018 premier Corporate Partners; an enhanced Executive Coaching Directory; ACHE Senior Executive Program; ACHE Executive Program; ACHE’s Leader-to-Leader Program; Board of Governors Exam Fee Waiver Campaign, ACHE member communities enhance membership experience; and more.

March 25, 2018 Congress Joint Networking Event

You are invited to join your ACHE colleagues across California for a joint networking reception with the California Association of Healthcare Leaders, Healthcare Executives of Southern California, and the San Diego Organization of Healthcare Leaders.

A Note from Your Chapter President

A Note from Your Chapter President

The December holidays are upon us, and for many this is a time of purposeful reflection – reflection on the past year, memorable experiences, losses, celebrations, renewed resilience, cherished traditions, or opportunities we look forward to in the new year ahead....

Leadership – A Military Medicine Necessity

By Maj Marc Rittberg, USAF, MSC Leadership is defined by Dictionary.com as “the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group.” There is a lot to be said about that statement. How does one measure leadership or account for leadership being...