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Volunteer Spotlight | Bryan Rivera
Bryan Rivera, FACHE is involved with the Mentorship and Senior Executive Engagement Committees for CAHL. He is the Director of Oncology, Neuroscience, and Clinical Research at Sutter Eden Medical Center and serves as President-Elect at Habitat for Humanity...
Organizational Culture: The North Star in Healthcare
By Christianna Kearns Culture is defined as a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an organization. It’s bigger than just a set of ideals; it’s how we are seen in the community and the relationships we build by connecting with...
Celebrating Women’s History Month: Honoring Trailblazers, Visionaries, and Advocates
Dear Esteemed Members of the California Association of Healthcare Leaders (CAHL), We are filled with profound admiration and reverence as we commemorate Women's History Month. This annual observance provides us with a sacred opportunity to celebrate the remarkable...
Message from your ACHE Regent
Winter 2024 It’s an exciting time as our local ACHE chapter, California Association of Healthcare Leaders (CAHL), is kicking off the new year with a number of events and programs before the ACHE Congress on Healthcare Leadership comes at the end of March. ...
Embracing Uncertainty: Healthcare Leadership in the AI Era
By Bridget K. Burke Within 10 years, AI may be able to do “80% of 80% of all jobs that we know of today,” venture capitalist and early OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla boldly told the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference in October 2023. On the more conservative end...
Crafting Your Destiny in a Post-Covid Era – Lessons from Avatar: The Last Airbender
By Priscilla Knolle, MBBS, MAT, FACHE The COVID-19 pandemic created a change in basic assumptions on a global scale, necessitating renewed reconciliation with the uncertainties of life, disrupting prevalent inequities, self-transformation through seizing inner power...
Promoting a Culture of Safety: A Crisis Communication Initiative
By Yurlene S. Dela Cruz I had the privilege to be a Project Creator of a Black Belt Process Improvement initiative on “Crisis Communication.” As a Lean Leader, I focused from a strategic perspective supporting the values of the High Reliability Organization (HRO)....
Member Spotlight | Robyn Ply
Robyn Ply, MHA is a volunteer with the Career Transition and Development Committee and the Mentorship program. Please tell us a little bit about what you've been doing as a volunteer, and why you chose to take that particular role. I am currently the Mentee Liaison...
Strategic Leadership in Healthcare: Addressing Growth, Modernization, and Workforce Challenges
By Abraham Cicchetti The healthcare industry is undergoing a period of unprecedented change, driven by rapid growth, technological advancements, and evolving workforce dynamics. Healthcare leaders are at the forefront of managing these challenges, necessitating...
Committee Updates February 2024
Interested in being more involved in CAHL? We're looking for volunteers to support our Finance, Mentorship, and Membership and Volunteer Group Committees, as well as our East Bay and Coastal Local Programming Councils. Reach out to get involved. Chapter Programming...
Equity & Access Updates from the National Stage
By La Toya Watkins It is truly inspiring to see the progress made to close the gaps in access and quality among patient groups with frequent health disparities. Recent efforts by The Joint Commission (TJC) and The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to...
Gurnick Takes Health Education ‘Above and Beyond’: 1 Professor, 2 Doctorates—Many Mummies
By Cindy R. Chamberlin, Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts Once upon a time, people thought King Tut had been “done in by a blow to the head,” as Science put it in 2005. It was radiology that closed the book on that supposition and radiology that posited other causes–a...
2023 Financial Statement
CAHL has $123,417.48 of total assets in reserve. The chapter's financial performance increased favorably by $11,736.67 compared to the last fiscal year. A combination of activities involving procurement of corporate sponsorship, increased programming events, and cost...
2024 President’s Outlook
By Nikhil Singal Happy New Year! On behalf of the CAHL Board of Directors, we would like to wish you a prosperous, joyful, and wonderful 2024. We are very excited to continue and expand our networking and education offerings and are embarking on several new...
Health Care Trends in 2024
By Fayola Edwards-Ojeba, MD 2024 brings with it opportunities to challenge the status quo in medicine. Skyrocketing health care costs are a concern, with physicians potentially affected by decreased reimbursements and patient access and increasing mergers for employed...
2023 Annual CAHL Self-Assessment
California Association of Healthcare Leaders – 2023 Annual Self-Assessment Note: Numbers cited in the CAHL Self-Assessment are from an annual report shared with ACHE and are accurate as of November 2023. See CAHL By the Numbers for full-year 2023 metrics. As an...
5 Keys to Success When Building a Diverse Health Leadership
By Vanessa Flores, Director, and Jeff Oxendine, CEO, Health Career Connection Building a diverse health leadership team is crucial for the success of any health organization. A diverse leadership team brings different perspectives, experiences, and ideas to the table,...
Being an Authentic Leader and a Call to Action
by Michael O'Connell Authentic – that’s Merriam Webster’s 2023 Word of the Year. It’s a relevant word for CAHL as leaders coming out of a pandemic and dealing with many healthcare issues, including employee strikes, artificial intelligence, ransomware hacks, ghosting,...
Embracing Human-Centered Design in Healthcare
by Rabiha Ahmed When crafting a patient-centric experience, many of us employ various problem-solving frameworks to effectively identify and address gaps or issues that patients may encounter. Two prominent approaches stand out among these frameworks: Lean Six...
Volunteer Spotlight | Pravin Venketsamy
Pravin Venketsamy, MHA, volunteers on the Member & Volunteer Growth committee. He is a VP of Operations at One Medical, a healthcare subsidiary of Amazon. Please tell us a bit about what you've been doing as a volunteer, and why you chose to take that particular...
Happy Holidays from the CAHL Board!
Fall 2023 President’s Message
By Kelly Brian Flannery Greetings and happy autumn to each one of you, our valuable CAHL members and volunteers! Where did this year go? It is hard to believe that we are in the final quarter of 2023 and by the time you read this message, we will be in November! I am...
AI’s Fast-Moving Healthcare Advancements
By Bridget K. Burke Healthcare is no stranger to innovation; however, the speed at which artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing healthcare is unparalleled. Consider that OpenAI’s ChatGPT reached a staggering 1 million users within just 5 days of its launch in...
Mentorship Spotlight | Fawn Hutton
Fawn has over 15 years of healthcare administration experience and currently works at UC Davis Medical Center as the Director of Emergency Services Business Operation. She shares her insights as a mentee in the Fall 2023 Formal Mentor Program. Describe your CAHL...
Mentorship in Medicine: Guiding Tomorrow’s Healthcare Pioneers
By Damon Pridgeon and Stacey Aggabao Warm greetings to our esteemed community of healthcare leaders! As we embrace the challenges and transformations that the final quarter of the year brings, our focus this month is on the sacred bond of mentorship within the realm...