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CAHME Upholds Commitment to Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging with Board Leadership

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CAHME Upholds Commitment to Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging with Board Leadership; Forest Kim appointed as Chair and Bankole Olatosi as Secretary-Treasurer.

Spring House, PA, June 29, 2022 — The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) announces that on July 1, 2022, Forest Kim, PhD, will become its first Asian American Board Chair, and Bankole (Banky) Olatosi, PhD, will be CAHME’s first African American Secretary-Treasurer.

“CAHME sees our commitment to diversity as an intentional and deliberate process that contributes to the broader community,” said Kim. “Our Board and accredited healthcare management education programs embrace diversity to serve the public by advancing the quality of healthcare management education.”

Forest Kim, PhD, MBA, MHA, FACHE, served on the Board since 2019, and has been a site visitor and CAHME fellow for more than a decade. He served on active duty for 22 years in the US Army as a healthcare administrator, retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.Kim is the program director of Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business Robbins Healthcare MBA program.

Bankole Olatosi, PhD, MPH, MS, FACHE, served on the Board since 2018. He is slated to transition into the role of Board Chairman in 2024. With more than a decade as a CAHME Fellow site visitor, he served as chair of CAHME’s Accreditation Council. Olatosi was the program director for the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health MHA program until December, 2021.

“Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) is fundamental to the development and maturation of the healthcare management field,” said Olatosi.“Healthcare management education requiresour future leaders to understand the community from multiple perspectives to ensure health equity.”

“CAHME holds its Board to the same standards as our accredited programs,” said Anthony Stanowski, DHA, President and CEO of CAHME. “CAHME expects accredited program to prepare students to value inclusiveness in contemporary healthcare organizations,and our own governance structure reflects these same values.”

Prospective students and the public can view the race, ethnicity, and gender of faculty and graduating students at CAHME-accredited programs through cahme.org/advance. CAHME’s Board members are listed on cahme.org/leadership.

About CAHME

Since 1968, the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) has served the public interest by advancing the quality of healthcare management education globally. CAHME accredits 138 academic programs and also certifies programs in healthcare quality and safety and in population health. Leading academics and healthcare practitioners volunteer at CAHME to ensure that graduates entering the healthcare field have undergone an educational process meeting rigorous, measurable standards for effectiveness. The result is a formal academic education focusing on key competencies, plus practical experiences. This enables new graduates to quickly add value to an organization and grow into future leaders. CAHME is the only organization recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation to grant accreditation to individual academic programs offering a professional master’s degree in healthcare management education. For more information, visit cahme.org.

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CAHME Announces Four New Accreditation Council Members: Johnson, Montagnolo, Rosenthal and Stebbins.

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CAHME Announces Four New Accreditation Council Members: Johnson, Montagnolo, Rosenthal and Stebbins.

Spring House, PA, July 1, 2022 — The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) announced four new members will join the CAHME Accreditation Council: Christopher E. Johnson, PhD, Professor and Chair at the University of Louisville; Anthony Montagnolo, MS, Consultant for the World Bank; Nancy Levitt-Rosenthal, MPH, FACHE, MHA program Professor at the University of New Haven in Connecticut and CEO at Kalivar; and Carla Stebbins, PhD, MHA, Director MS in Health Systems Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology. The additions are effective July 1, 2022 and are for a three-year term.

“The Accreditation Council and the CAHME team are looking forward to working with Chris, Anthony, Nancy and Carla to impact the next generation of healthcare leaders,” said Christine Winn, MHA, MS, FACHE, CAHME Accreditation Council Chair, and Senior Vice President, Ambulatory Operations at Cooper University Healthcare. “They are passionate healthcare educators and healthcare executives who have a track record of enabling students to meet their full potential and become leaders in healthcare.”

“Christopher, Anthony, Nancy and Carla are CAHME Fellows who served as site visitors, and on committees and taskforces,” said Anthony Stanowski, DHA, FACHE, CAHME President and CEO. “Through their service, they demonstrate their commitment to CAHME’s mission of advancing the quality of healthcare management education.”

The list of CAHME Accreditation Council Members is at www.cahme.org/leadership.

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CAHME appoints Chris Winn Accreditation Council Chair

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CAHME announces the appointment of Christine Winn to Chair Accreditation Council effective July 1, 2022.

Spring House, PA, July 1, 2022 — The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) is pleased to announce that Christine C Winn, MHA, MS, FACHE, will chair the CAHME Accreditation Council on July 1, 2022.

“Our board and management team look forward to working with Christine to foster the development of the next generation of healthcare leaders,” said CAHME Board Chair Forest Kim, PhD, FACHE. “She is an experienced healthcare professional, an acknowledged leader, and passionate about preparing the next generation of leaders to be stewards of healthcare.”

Winn is currently the Senior Vice President, Ambulatory Operations at Cooper University Healthcare where she is responsible for the innovation, development and operations for the 70+ medical practices across Cooper and the Cancer partnership with MD Anderson. During her 25-year career in health care, she served in leadership positions at Jefferson Health, Main Line Health, Bridgeport Hospital, and Penn Medicine. Winn is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, and also a Fellow at CAHME. She is active in the American Cancer Society and is pursuing a PhD at Walden University.

“It is an honor and privilege to serve as Chair of CAHME’s Accreditation Council,” said Winn. “I look forward to working with Council members and CAHME’s site visitors to evaluate and accredit programs that meet CAHME’s standards to provide students with key competencies to be better prepared to lead.”

“Christine has served on our Accreditation Council, on site visits, and in special task forces,” said Anthony Stanowski, DHA, FACHE, President and CEO of CAHME. “Her leadership, wealth of knowledge and dedication are critical skills needed to guide the Council in its review of programs.”

The list of CAHME Accreditation Council Members is at cahme.org/leadership.

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CAHME Announces Three New Standards Council Members: Bhuyan, Bridgwater, and Jones.

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CAHME Announces Three New Standards Council Members: Bhuyan, Bridgwater, and Jones.

Spring House, PA, July 1, 2022 — The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) announced 3 new members will join the Standards Council: Soumitra Bhuyan, PhD, Associate Professor from Rutgers University- New Brunswick; Cherise Bridgwater, MBA, CHFP, FACHE, Director, Accreditation and Operations from Baylor University; and Maureen Jones, PhD, RN, MHA Program Director from the University of Kentucky. The additions are effective July 1, 2022 and are for a three-year term.

“The Standards Council and the CAHME team are looking forward to working with Soumitra, Cherise and Maureen to impact the next generation of healthcare leaders,” said James Lineberger, MHA, PhD, FACMPE, FACHE, CAHME’s Standards Council Chair, and Executive Director at Anesthesia Associates of Boise. “They are passionate educators who have a track record of enabling students to meet their full potential and become leaders in healthcare.”

“Soumitra, Cherise and Maureen are CAHME Fellows who have been site visitors, and also have served on committees and taskforces,” said Anthony Stanowski, DHA, FACHE, President and CEO of CAHME. “Through their service, they have demonstrated their commitment to CAHME’s mission of advancing the quality of healthcare management education.”

The list of CAHME Standards Council Members is at www.cahme.org/leadership.

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Press Release HLNDV names CAHME CEO Dr. Anthony Stanowski as the ACHE Regent Award (3/1/2021)

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Healthcare Leadership Network of the Delaware Valley names CAHME CEO Dr. Anthony Stanowski as the American College of Healthcare Executives Regent Award.

Spring House, PA, March 1, 2021 — The  Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education  (CAHME) announced that Dr. Anthony Stanowski, DHA, FACHE, President and CEO, will be awarded the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regents Award by the Healthcare Leadership Network of the Delaware Valley (HLNDV). The award will be presented on March 3, 2021 at the HLNDV annual “Breakfast with the Regents”. The award is given to executives who exemplify the goals of ACHE, to educate, engage and inspire leaders to improve health.

For nearly 40 years, Dr. Stanowski served the industry in senior leadership roles in the provider, supplier, and healthcare management education sectors.

Since 2016, under Dr. Stanowski’s leadership, CAHME saw a nearly 50% increase in accredited programs to 124, developed partnership opportunities with the industry to encourage excellence, and established accreditation criteria in healthcare quality and safety. CAHME broadened its focus outside of its traditional service area of the US and Canada, and several programs from outside North America are now working toward accreditation. CAHME established program grants and student scholarships to assist the aspiring healthcare leaders to meet their goals. It created an online tool to allow students to better select programs that meet their needs based on key program characteristics and outcomes.

“Anthony has stayed committed to CAHME’s mission over 4 decades, from when he was a graduate student of the accredited program at Widener University, as a healthcare executive, and to his current role,” said Dr. Dolores G. Clement, DrPH, FACHE, Chair of the Board of Directors of CAHME, and herself a former regent’s award recipient. “What makes Anthony a great leader inside and outside of CAHME is that he exemplifies CAHME’s values and is a caretaker of high standards of accreditation.”

“Anthony’s lifetime of working with young careerist extends from hiring administrative residents early in his career to his current role of influencing the education process,” said Michael George Vice President, Healthcare Services at Albert Einstein Medical Center and ACHE Regent. “Anthony continues to advance healthcare management education, which will have a long-term impact on healthcare.”

“I am humbled by this recognition from my peers at ACHE and HLNDV, thankful for all of the healthcare leaders who shaped my career and energized by the young careerists whose dedication to our healthcare system will make a difference in the communities in which they serve,” said Dr. Stanowski.

About CAHME

Since 1968, CAHME serves the public interest by advancing the quality of healthcare management education globally. 124 leading academic programs are accredited. Leading healthcare executives and academics work to set the criteria and standards necessary to better prepare graduates for leadership in healthcare. The result is a formal rigorous academic education focusing on key competencies, plus practical experiences. This enables new graduates to quickly add value to an organization and grow into future leaders. CAHME is the only organization recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation to grant accreditation to individual academic programs offering a professional master’s degree in healthcare management education. Visit www.cahme.org for more information.

About the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)

ACHE is an international professional society of more than 48,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare organizations. ACHE’s mission is to advance our members and healthcare management excellence. ACHE offers its prestigious FACHE^®credential, signifying board certification in healthcare management. ACHE’s established network of 77 chapters provides access to networking, education, and career development at the local level. In addition, ACHE is known for its magazine, Healthcare Executive, and its career development and public policy programs. Through such efforts, ACHE works toward its vision of being the preeminent professional society for leaders dedicated to improving health. The Foundation of ACHE is known for its educational programs—including the annual Congress on Healthcare Leadership, which draws more than 4,000 participants—and groundbreaking research. Its publishing division, Health Administration Press, is one of the largest publishers of books and journals on health services management including textbooks for college and university courses. Visitwww.ache.org for more information.

About Healthcare Leadership Network of the Delaware Valley (HLNDV)

Founded in 1976, HLNDV is a professional organization of healthcare executives representing a variety of institutions and interests in the Philadelphia region. The Healthcare Leadership Network is an independent chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the only healthcare executive network serving Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware. For more information, visit www.hlndv.ache.org.

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CAMHE Mentorship Circle (CMC): How To Become A Recognized CMC Program (8/17/2020)

On August 21, 2020 at noon EDT, the CAHME Mentorship Circle (CMC) Webinar Series features “Rush Case Study: Preparing Graduates to Lead Using the NCHL Competency Model”. Andrew Garman, PhD, Rush University Professor and Casey Brackett, Rush Administrative Fellowships Director, provide an introduction to the National Center for Healthcare Leadership competency model. Register here.

The CMC program was created by the CAHME Board to further CAHME’s mission of advancing the quality of healthcare management education. CMC designation recognizes CAHME-accredited programs that demonstrate a commitment to excellence not only to their own programs, but across the broader field of healthcare management education. CMC designation is an honor and responsibility.

CMC programs provide mentorship to other programs, and perform a significant activity. Activities have included “best practice” case studies, involvement in international program accreditation, senior faculty mentoring junior faculty at other programs, and holding student case competitions. Programs propose the activity to the CMC committee for review. You can review existing CMC programs and their activities at www.cahme.org/CMC. CMC eligibility is limited to CAMHE-accredited programs who received a seven-year re-accreditation on their site visit.

CMC programs are noted on CAHME’s new advanced search tool and receive a distinct CMC logo for their webiste.

Applications are due September 1, 2020 by 5:00 pm EDT to be considered in the fall. Send completed applications to Dana Alexander, CAHME Administrative Resident, at dalexander@cahme.org.

Allyson Hall, PhD to join Board of Directors (8/14/2020)

Spring House, PA, August 14, 2020— The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education(CAHME) is pleased to announce that University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration, Allyson Hall, MBA, MHS, PhD, joined the CAHME Board of Directors on July 1, 2020.

Hall is director of the UAB Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality and Safety in the School of Health Professions. Her research focuses on improving access to high-quality health care among vulnerable populations including low income individuals and people living with a disability or chronic health condition. Her current research activities also includes reducing care fragmentation and the use of health care technology to improve quality of care. She has a long-standing interest in Medicaid.

In addition to the CAHME board, Hall serves as an associate editor for the Journal for Healthcare Quality. She earned her PhD in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her Master of Health Administration (MHA) from the University of Florida.

Hall has played a significant role in the creation of the Healthcare Quality and Safety Accreditation process at CAHME. Her leadership and commitment to improving the educational process of master’s programs will have a long-term impact on programs globally.

“Our board and management team are looking forward to working with Allyson to impact the next generation of healthcare leaders,” said Dolores Clement, DrPh, FACHE, CAHME’s Board Chair and Sentara Professor Emerita at Virginia Commonwealth University. “She is a passionate educator, who has a track record of enabling students to meet their full potential and become leaders in healthcare.”

“Today’s student faces more changing demands and uncertainty than any generation before, so this is a great opportunity and a tremendous responsibility that I look forward to addressing with the entire CAHME leadership team,” said Hall. “It is an honor to join such a renowned group of health care leaders and a privilege to continue CAHME’s legacy as the benchmark for health care management education.”

“Allyson has participated with CAHME as a site visitor, on our Accreditation Council, as the chair of the Candidacy Committee, and in the Healthcare Quality and Safety Council”, said Anthony Stanowski, DHA, FACHE, President and CEO of CAHME. “Allyson’s long term and breadth of knowledge, will impact CAHME’s mission of advancing the quality of healthcare management education.”

To view the complete list of CAHME Board Members, go to www.cahme.org/leadership.

About CAHME

For more than 50 years, the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) has served the public interest by advancing the quality of healthcare management education globally. CAHME works with more than 100 leading academic programs and numerous healthcare practitioners to ensure that graduates entering the healthcare field have undergone an educational process meeting rigorous, measurable standards for effectiveness. The result is a formal academic education focusing on key competencies, plus practical experiences. This enables new graduates to quickly add value to an organization and grow into future leaders. CAHME is the only organization recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation to grant accreditation to individual academic programs offering a professional master’s degree in healthcare management education. For more information, visit cahme.org.

About UAB

Known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a part of the University of Alabama system, is the state of Alabama’s largest employer and an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center; its professional schools and specialty patient-care programs are consistently ranked among the nation’s top 50. For more information, visit www.uab.edu or www.uab.edu/shp.

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Quint Studer to Join CAHME Board of Directors (8/14/2020)

Spring House, PA, August 14, 2020 — The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) is pleased to announced that Pensacola businessman, author, owner of minor league baseball’s Pensacola Blue Wahoos, and philanthropist, Quint Studer, joined the CAHME Board of Directors on August 10, 2020.

A teacher at heart, Quint Studer began his leadership journey working with special needs children. Entering the health-care industry in 1984 as a Community Relations Representative, he went on to hold senior leadership positions at Mercy Health System in Wisconsin and Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, where their initiatives in patient care led to them winning Hospitals Magazine’s Great Comeback award. In 1996, he became president of Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Florida, leading that organization to be ranked in the top one percent of hospitals nationwide in patient and employee satisfaction.

In 2000, after numerous requests by organizations for assistance, Studer Group was formed. Over the years the outcomes firm won multiple awards, including the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. By the time the firm was sold in 2015, it had 250 employees and helped more than a thousand healthcare organizations move toward higher performance.

Through his work at Studer Group, he served as a role model for hundreds of CEOs and other administrative leaders around the country. In 2014, Studer created Studer Community Institute to build vibrant communities, with a focus on Pensacola, Florida.

“Our board and management team are looking forward to working with Quint to impact the next generation of healthcare leaders,” said Dolores Clement, DrPh, FACHE, CAHME’s Board Chair and Sentara Professor Emerita at Virginia Commonwealth University. “His passion for education is surpassed only by his commitment to healthy communities and quality improvement.”

“Throughout my career, my focus has been on alignment of an organization’s strengths within the imperative of the environment. At this time in history, it is most important that we develop leaders that can improve the quality of care in our society, particularly for individuals with complex health and social needs,” said Studer. “I’m looking forward to working with the leaders on the CAHME Board and the management team to continue its important work in producing executives that will lead in this important profession.”

“I was honored to work with Quint more than a decade ago in an organization where his principles not only improved processes, but saved patient lives”, said Anthony Stanowski, DHA, FACHE, President and CEO of CAHME. “Quint’s lasting contribution is integrating patient care to the concept of customer service. Bringing Quint Studer to the CAHME Board brings an added dimension to CAHME’s mission of advancing the quality of healthcare management education.”

To view the complete list of CAHME Board Members, go to www.cahme.org/leadership.

About CAHME
For more than 50 years, the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) has served the public interest by advancing the quality of healthcare management education globally. CAHME works with more than 100 leading academic programs and numerous healthcare practitioners to ensure that graduates entering the healthcare field have undergone an educational process meeting rigorous, measurable standards for effectiveness. The result is a formal academic education focusing on key competencies, plus practical experiences. This enables new graduates to quickly add value to an organization and grow into future leaders. CAHME is the only organization recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation to grant accreditation to individual academic programs offering a professional master’s degree in healthcare management education. For more information, visit cahme.org.

About Quint Studer and the Studer Community Institute
After a 30+ year career in healthcare, Quint Studer founded Studer Community Institute (SCI) to improve the quality of life for people in the community – one child, one person at a time. The Pensacola, Florida, based SCI does this by helping children be prepared for kindergarten; creating educated and engaged citizens; and creating jobs by helping leaders develop the skills needed for business success. These together are key elements of building a vibrant and engaged community.

SCI’s vision of “Making our community the greatest place to live in the world” may be a bit far-fetched, but year after year, little by little, SCI keeps seeing the results of investing in our community. Working with civic leaders, business owners and citizens, SCI works toward building a community people are proud to call home.

For more information, visit www.studeri.org.

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CAHME and Wharton Research Data Services Announce Recipient of 2020 Empirical Research Award 01/20/2020

The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) and Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) have named Joshua R Vest, Paul K Halverson, and Nir Menachemi of the Indiana University Richard M Fairbanks School of Public Health and Lisa E Harris and Dawn P Haut of Eskenazi Health as recipients of the 2020 CAHME/WRDS Best Paper for Empirical Research Award.

The award recognizes the authors’ use of data for an innovative analysis of wraparound services to reduce hospitalization and Emergency Department visits, which was published in October 2018 by Health Affairs. A part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, WRDS provides global corporations, universities and regulatory agencies the thought leadership, data access and insights needed to enable impactful research.

The article, titled “Indianapolis Provider’s Use Of Wraparound Services Associated With Reduced Hospitalizations And Emergency Department Visits” describes how the authors used data from Eskenazi Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center, and the Indiana Network for Patient Care to determine whether the provision of wraparound services within a Federally Qualified Health Center was effective in reducing costly health care use. The estimated annual savings from these services on potentially avoided hospitalizations is on average $1.4 to $2.4 million, or about $76 to $131 per person.

In selecting the authors from Indiana University and Eskenazi Health, CAHME President and CEO Anthony Stanowski, DHA, FACHE, noted that the panel of judges “were impressed by the importance of the work due to changes in reimbursement policies that hold providers financially accountable. Its publication in such a respected journal suggests it could have broad impact as well.”

“This type of analysis is important for healthcare leaders and policy makers,” said lead author Joshua Vest, who is also a research scientist at Regenstrief Institute. “Under value-based payment, wraparound services could be part of a portfolio of strategies to address patients social, behavioral and environmental needs that drive poor health and increase costs.”

“The CAHME-WRDS Best Paper Award for Empirical Research is an exciting collaboration focused on advancing excellence across the healthcare research sector,” said Robert Zarazowski, Managing Director of WRDS. “We look forward to highlighting high-quality, impactful research from the sector.”

The CAHME/WRDS Award includes a grant of $1,500. The authors have donated their winning share back to the Indiana University program to help support educational opportunities for graduate students in the program. The award program is open to any CAHME-accredited program or faculty from a CAHME-accredited program.

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About WRDS
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WRDS provides researchers with one location to access over 350 terabytes of data across multiple disciplines including Accounting, Banking, Economics, ESG, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Marketing, and Statistics. Flexible data delivery options include a powerful web query method that reduces research time, the WRDS Cloud for executing research and strategy development, and the WRDS client server using PCSAS, Matlab, R and more. Our rigorous data review and validation give users the confidence to tailor research and create a wide range of reliable data models. Powerful Analytics by WRDS – a suite of cutting-edge analytical tools developed by our doctoral-level team enables powerful insight into research and Classroom by WRDS provides a teaching and learning toolkit designed to introduce business concepts in the classroom.

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About The Wharton School
Founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is shaping the future of business by incubating ideas, driving insights, and creating leaders who change the world. With a faculty of more than 235 renowned professors, Wharton has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA and doctoral students. Each year 13,000 professionals from around the world advance their careers through Wharton Executive Education’s individual, company-customized, and online programs. More than 99,000 Wharton alumni form a powerful global network of leaders who transform business every day. For more information, visit www.wharton.upenn.edu.

Another Successful Year for CAHME 12/16/2019

We are concluding a demanding but fruitful year for CAHME, in which we have continued to advance the quality of healthcare management education. We owe much of our accomplishments to the continued support of our many stakeholders: our Board of Directors; our staff and support team; program directors throughout the US, Canada, and around the globe; our corporate, scholarship, and healthcare partners; healthcare organizations that employ graduates of CAHME-accredited programs; and the thousands of students who will become the future leaders of healthcare.

Among our highlights for the year:

Growing interest in global accreditation, with CAHME working through the accreditation process with programs in Saudi Arabia, Kenya, and Georgia.
Accredited programs numbering 106, with 24 programs in candidacy, and another 31 in the initial stages of pursuing accreditation.
Five programs certified in Healthcare Quality & Safety, and a new corporate partnership with the National Association for Healthcare Quality. Our number of “founding programs” has expanded to 11 with the University of Pennsylvania joining this past week. We will accept applications for new HQS certifications by February 1.
The continuation of our scholarship and award programs. We raised $21,100 from friends of Tim Campbell to support the Tim Campbell Scholarship. The Dawn Gideon Foundation Scholarship marked its fourth year, while the Judy Baar Tripinka Scholarship is in its second year. We were grateful for the continued support of Canon Solutions America for its continuing support of our Sustainability Award, and for Wharton Research Data Services for its grant that supports empirical research. The 2020 winning programs, students, and faculty will be announced in January.
A growing partnership with Peregrine Academic Services, which produced a Benchmarking white paper in 2019, and will produce a new white paper on Competency Assessment in 2020.
CAHME training reached new levels, as our Bootcamps enrolled an all-time high 81 participants. We also will roll out a Learning Management System to work on lowering inter-rater variability among site visitors, and also will help programs get through application and candidacy processes more quickly. A new Training Coordinator will join the CAHME team in 2020.
Growth of the CAHME Mentorship Circle to 23 programs, and nearly 90 percent of our accredited programs participating in Enhanced Benchmarking. The Board is aiming for 100 percent participation in Enhanced Benchmarking!
The completion of our Getting to 100 video series, featuring industry leaders, including our founder Gary Filerman who remains a staunch vibrant supporter of our mission. We also published our white paper “Getting to 100: Preparing Healthcare Leaders for the next 50 years.”

Mostly, though, I am thankful for our Corporate Members who support our mission, and the 250 volunteers each year, in a variety of roles – site visitor, board member, task forces, committees, Standards Council and Accreditation Council. These volunteers are invaluable to CAHME and its mission of advancing the quality of healthcare management education.

Thank you for another great year, and here’s to a prosperous 2020.

Sincerely,

Anthony Stanowski, DHA, FACHE
President & CEO
CAHME