Learning for Health Care Leaders
America’s Essential Hospitals offers in-person meetings, distance learning events, and collaborative groups for professionals at every level of your organization. Participate in our programming and join hundreds of health care leaders nationwide as they explore key federal and state health care issues, discover innovative and transformative practices, and hone leadership skills.
Government Relations Academy
The America’s Essential Hospitals Government Relations Academy elevates the federal advocacy skills of government relations professionals at hospitals with a mission to serve low-income patients and others who face barriers to care.
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Participating in the Essential Women’s Leadership Academy was particularly helpful in developing confidence and a comfort with my leadership voice. By spending time with both my mentor and my cohort, I was able to work very explicitly on defining my values, my vision for leadership, and my goals.
Felicia Tornabene, MD | Chief medical officer, Alameda Health System
Essential Learning Series
The Essential Learning Series is an affordable online learning experience offering industry-specific training to help health care professionals level up their skill set and achieve career goals.
Each topic features three live, interactive modules, led by subject matter and industry experts, that explore insights and share peer-to-peer best practices. Participants also will review case studies and real-time industry updates to prepare them to develop and execute strategies in their own organizations. The curriculum clearly outlines learning objectives and outcomes required for participants to achieve content mastery and earn professional development credits.
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Peer-to-Peer Engagement
America’s Essential Hospitals has interest groups on a variety of topics important to essential hospitals. Any employee of a member hospital is free to join these groups for regular calls, webinars, and in-person meetings at events, such as VITAL.
Leadership Development Programs
For more than 30 years, the program has brought essential hospital leaders together to unflinchingly look at the enormous challenges they face and provide the tools necessary to meet those challenges. The program includes a network of more than 650 alumni, some of whom have become CEOs of essential hospitals, C-suite leaders, and national health care thought leaders.
The Government Relations Academy is a nine-month course designed to help government relations professionals at essential hospitals take their advocacy and communications skills to a new level.
Through the Gage Awards, America’s Essential Hospitals recognizes member hospitals and health systems for successful projects to improve the quality of care and population health.
The awards promote the spread of best practices and innovative programs to other organizations and support the association’s research, policy, and advocacy work by sharing member success stories with external audiences.