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Connections: June 2024 | Q2 Newsletter

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Chapter Important Dates

  • Chapter Leadership Forum and the Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference July 21-14 | Anaheim, Calif.
  • 陳栠勛圖Elections Ballot opens on July 21 and closes on August 21.

 

2024 Chapter Awards

The results are in! The 2024 Chapter Awards were announced during the Q2 Chapter Leader/Liaison Call and can be viewed on the 陳栠勛圖Chapter Awards webpage. The 陳栠勛圖Chapter Awards recognize the outstanding achievements and contributions of 陳栠勛圖Chapters that partner with 陳栠勛圖to help optimize the health care physical environment. 陳栠勛圖offers platinum, gold, silver and bronze level awards, in addition to the elite status bonus award that can be awarded to chapters at any level.

Winning Chapters received an email with their award logo, a list of ways 陳栠勛圖is recognizing awarded Chapters and instructions on how to receive their plaque. If you did not receive it and should have, please contact Jenny Hull, lead specialist, 陳栠勛圖governance and Chapter relations. 

 

2024 Chapter Challenge Winners

Congratulations to the 2024 Chapter Challenge Winners! This year, 14 Chapters across 322 facilities participated in the Chapter Challenge. The winners are:

Small Category Winner
Arkansas Association for Healthcare Engineering (AAHE)

Large Category Winner
Texas Association of Healthcare Facilities Management (TAHFM)

The Energy to Care Chapter Challenge program allows 陳栠勛圖Chapters to participate in a friendly competition against one another in an effort to reduce their energy consumption. Chapters that participate in the Chapter Challenge qualify to apply for elite status during the Chapter Awards season. Learn more at ashe.org/chapter-challenge.

 

Join us at the Chapter Leadership Forum in Anaheim!

The 2024 Chapter Leadership Forum (CLF) will be held on Sunday, July 21, 2024, in Anaheim, Calif., from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. PT before the Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference. The CLF will feature sessions on utilizing technology and social media at the chapter level, expanding your membership pipeline, strategic planning and operating budgets, and more! Chapter leaders will have the opportunity to engage fellow leaders in important dialogue, share ideas, discover solutions to chapter challenges, gain valuable takeaways from colleagues and refine their leadership skills. This years Chapter Award winners will be recognized throughout the conference; plaques will be distributed to each Chapter president at check-in before the start of the forum.

CHAPTER LEADERSHIP FORUM AGENDA

  • 77:30 a.m.: Check-in and breakfast
  • 7:30 a.m. 12 p.m.: Chapter Leadership Forum sessions
  • 121 p.m.: Lunch and Learn

Don't miss out on this Chapter Leadership Forum! Register for the 2024 Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference to be held July 21-24, 2024 and be sure to add the Forum to your schedule when you register!

 

Regional Networking and Updates

Meet up with conference attendees from your region and hear updates from your 陳栠勛圖Advisory Board regional representative regarding your region and its chapters. Regions 1, 2, 4, 5 and 9 will also hear speeches from regional representative candidates for their region. This event will be held on Sunday, July 21, from 4:30-6 p.m. PT. Updates begin at 5 p.m. Attend this event when you register for the Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference!

 

陳栠勛圖2024 Chapter Service Project

Each year, the local chapter in which the Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference is located comes together to perform a service project as a way to give back and support local efforts. This years host chapter, the California Society for Healthcare Engineering, will feature a community service project working with . Their mission is to provide children facing adversity with a strong, enduring, professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationship that creates pathways for the future and a mentor for a lifetime. Chapter leaders, conference attendees and guests will have the opportunity to donate school supplies during the conference. More information will be coming soon!

 

Calling All 陳栠勛圖Chapters to Write to CMS

陳栠勛圖is asking all Chapters to consider drafting and sending a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services urging updates to the Conditions of Participation by adopting the 2024 editions of NFPA 101簧, Life Safety Code簧, and NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code. This is not a form letter writing campaign we need chapters to identify any specific burden their members experience with the currently adopted (2012) editions of NFPA 101 and NFPA 99.

The letters should be put on chapter letterhead and addressed and emailed to the following:

Dr. Dora Hughes
Chief Medical Officer Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality 
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 
7500 Security Boulevard, M/S S21225 
Baltimore, MD 21133
dora.hughes@cms.hhs.gov

Lisa Parker 
Director, Division of Institutional Quality Standards, Clinical Standards Group 
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 
7500 Security Boulevard, M/S S21225 
Baltimore, MD 21133
lisa.parker@cms.hhs.gov

 

2024 陳栠勛圖Elections Voting Opens July 21!

The 陳栠勛圖National Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the candidates for the 2024 陳栠勛圖election. Learn about the candidates for each of the open positions by visiting ashe.org/ashe-elections.

All current 陳栠勛圖members* will be eligible to cast their vote for president-elect and associate member representative.

  • President-Elect: The president-elect will serve a one-year term that begins January 1, 2025, and ends December 31, 2025. The president-elect will take office as 陳栠勛圖president beginning January 1, 2026.
  • Associate Member Representative: The associate member representative will serve a two-year term that begins January 1, 2025, and ends December 31, 2026.

All current 陳栠勛圖members* who reside in the following regions are also eligible to cast a vote for one Advisory Board regional representative in their region.

  • Regional Representatives: The Advisory Board regional representatives from regions 1, 2, 4, 5 and 9 will serve a two-year term that begins January 1, 2025, and ends December 31, 2026. The other regional representatives will be elected next year.

As in years past, voting will be done online with these simple steps:

  1. Update your email address in your by June 30.
  2. Watch your email on Sunday, July 21, for an email from Association Elections with your unique direct link to the elections website.
  3. Click on the link and vote!

Voting opens on Sunday, July 21, 2024, at 12:00 a.m. CT and closes on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. CT.

*Student and educator members are not eligible to vote.

Visit the 陳栠勛圖Election Page regularly for more information. Questions? Contact Jenny Hull, 陳栠勛圖elections secretary, at jhull@aha.org. 

 

Use 陳栠勛圖Hosted Programs to Support Member Career Development 

Since 1963, 陳栠勛圖has been at the forefront of applying innovations in the optimization of the health care physical environment. For more than a decade, ASHEs hosted programs have provided Chapters the benefit of hosting ASHE-developed education programming directly to its members at the lowest per-person cost available.  

陳栠勛圖Chapters and regional conferences, such as the Arkansas Association for Healthcare Engineering, Inc. (AAHE), Healthcare Engineers Society of Northern Illinois (HESNI), Indiana Society for Healthcare Engineering  (ISHE), Kansas City Area Healthcare Engineers (KCAHE), New England Healthcare Engineers Society (NEHES), North Carolina Healthcare Engineers Association, Inc. (NCHEA), Northern Ohio Society for Healthcare Engineering (NOSHE), Oklahoma Association of Healthcare Engineers (OAHE), Texas Association of Healthcare Facilities Management (TAHFM), Virginia Society of Healthcare Engineers (VSHE), Washington State Society for Healthcare Engineering (WSSHE) and the 陳栠勛圖Region 6 Conference have all leveraged 陳栠勛圖hosted programs to help educate their members.   

Hosted programs allow health care organizations, private companies, government and military groups, and 陳栠勛圖Chapters to deliver the highest quality educational programming focused on optimizing the health care physical environment in the marketplace without having to spend money on developing their own training curriculum. Programming 陳栠勛圖hosted programs that align with ASHEs core competency frameworks and product pathways can help your Chapters customers, members and community to successfully progress in their career development. 

Unlike other training opportunities in the marketplace, 陳栠勛圖hosted programs provide: 

  •  Unbiased, holistic education on a variety of important topics that impact you daily. 
  •  Insights from trusted industry veterans with experience across the planning, design, construction and maintenance continuum. 
  • An education product portfolio built from decades at the forefront of optimizing the health care physical environment. 

Get started on bringing in-person, live online and on-demand 陳栠勛圖hosted program education to your Chapter members. Learn more about how 陳栠勛圖hosted programs can support your chapter members professional development needs.

 

Chapter Resources

  • Chapter Calendar Your go-to source for all upcoming 陳栠勛圖due dates, calls and events, as well as a space to share your Chapters upcoming events. If youd like to add your event to the calendar, please submit the .
  • Chapter Communications and Meeting Recordings Miss a Chapter Leader/Liaison call or cant find an important Chapter communication? All Chapter communications, recordings and PowerPoints are saved here.
  • Make sure you and your Chapter are receiving all important 陳栠勛圖communications! Fill out the contact update form when your Chapters officers or support staff change, or if you need someone added to the communications distribution list.

 

陳栠勛圖Education Resources

陳栠勛圖has several resources and e-books available to members free of charge. Check out the ASHEs top picks of the month!

  • Weathering the Storm: Health care facilities on the front lines of climate change response and recovery ASHEs new free e-book features a collection of articles describing extreme weather events that have affected health care facilities across the country including hurricanes, flooding, drought, wildfires, extreme heat and blistering cold. Health care facilities managers share their unbiased experiences and provide valuable insight into the difficult situations they faced, detailing the expected and unexpected impact, aftermath and recovery efforts following these events.

    Download this free e-book, Weathering the Storm: Health care facilities on the front lines of climate change response and recovery, today.

  • Emergency Management Playbook ASHEs new free e-book shares emergency management and infection control best practices learned during the COVID-19 pandemic that health care facilities managers, infection control practitioners, emergency managers, incident management teams and environmental services professionals can use to plan for and respond to emergency situations impacting the health care physical environment.

    Download ASHEs free e-book, Emergency Management Playbook, today.

  • 陳栠勛圖and the AHA Team Up to Provide Behavioral Health Educational Resources Across the country, health care providers work tirelessly to respond to the national behavioral health crisis.  A noted that 38% more people are in mental health care since the onset of the pandemic than before. A found 1 in 5 adolescents had major depressive disorder, but less than half of those who needed treatment received any care for the issue. In 2022, 陳栠勛圖 shared with congressional leaders voicing support for several initiatives to improve access to comprehensive, affordable and quality behavioral health services, as well as ways to protect .

    To help to respond to this crisis, and in collaboration with 陳栠勛圖's Behavioral Health Community, 陳栠勛圖will be offering complimentary access to all of its behavioral health-related conference recordings from 2024 events including the International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction (PDC Summit) and Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference that are focused on the planning, design, construction and maintenance of behavioral health facilities.   

    You can to support your organizations efforts to respond to this national emergency.