COO
Memorial Care—Long Beach (Calif.) Medical Center
Healthcare executives need to lead change in their organizations while engaging the many stakeholders who have different ideas of how or what to change in a company’s culture and process, including those who do not feel the need for change. Associations like ACHE provide vital space for leaders to discuss effective approaches to encouraging and managing their organizations through those situations.
Our success as healthcare executives hinges on how well we engage with others to achieve our mission. The most effective executives have great interpersonal skills, particularly the ability to ask the right questions and listen for answers that help shape strategy.
ACHE has helped me achieve my career goals of lifelong learning and development by helping me to build relationships with other executives who have different backgrounds and responsibilities. ACHE encouraged my ongoing development, from my time as a student through postgraduate fellowships to being certified as an ACHE Fellow.
Achieving our goals for improving value, affordability and high reliability in quality and patient safety outcomes requires transformational leadership and partnerships. Overcoming the challenges ahead takes partnerships with a multi-disciplinary array of stakeholders. I look to venues like the annual Congress on Healthcare Leadership and local chapter events to learn and build relationships with other executives. I appreciate ACHE’s commitment to facilitating the development of healthcare executives by offering us the opportunity to learn best-practice healthcare leadership approaches that we might not otherwise encounter.
Member, Health Care Executives of Southern California
Member, National Association of Health Services Executives Southern California Chapter
Health Career Connection, Advisory Board
Hospital Association of Southern California, Hospital Operations Committee