As we welcome July, I am delighted to extend a personal invitation to CAHL’s Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony, set for August 22, 2024. This event, which has been a hallmark of our community for over a decade, continues to flourish each year. Last year, we proudly...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Finding “Your” Community Within CAHL
By Nikhil Singal The forced isolation of the Covid-19 pandemic has encouraged us all to think about the role of community in our lives. It’s a topic that may primarily be considered personally rather than professionally. We have our neighborhoods, families, friends...
Honing Leadership and Management Skills Through Structured Change
By Kelly Brian Flannery As the season of spring renewal passes into the languid warmth of summer, I’ve been reflecting on a new role I recently undertook, and how it has inspired me to break out of some professional stagnation by exercising my skills in new ways. My...
Applying Mindfulness to “Break Through the Wall”
By Christianna Kearns Recently, I was a panelist at HFMA’s Women’s Conference held at Danville, CA on May 5, 2023, discussing mindfulness in the workplace. As we prepared for the event, the other panelists and I discussed what mindfulness meant to us. From a research...
Champion Transformational Change by Taking Time to Understand Its Complexities
By Abraham Cicchetti The rapid evolution of healthcare technologies, treatments, policies and more can have a profound impact on the financial health of healthcare organizations, as well as on patients and other stakeholders. Transformational change within healthcare...