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Hello ASHHRA and IFD Members:
ASHHRA Webinar, 52nd Annual Conference & Exposition and the CHHR
Recruiting Nurses − How to Source Nurses When Checking References (sponsored and hosted by Checkster)
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Time: 2:00pm ET, 1:00pm CT, 12:00pm MT, 11:00am PT
Duration: 60 minutes
Speakers: Yves Lermusi, CEO, Checkster, Inc., and Andy Trekker, senior HR recruiter, Allina Health
Price: ASHHRA Members: FREE, but advanced registration is required. Click here.
This webinar is approved for 1.0 recertification credit hour for CHHR and HRCI recertification.

Join us to uncover the best and most efficient way to source the crucial nurse position through the candidate's references. This webinar will discuss how, through automated reference checks, you can find qualified passive candidates while saving time and staying legally compliant.
Learning Objectives:
- Source qualified passive nurse candidates through automated reference checks
- Highlight the efficiency and cost-saving gain from automating reference checks
- Greatly improve your future quality of hire with current candidate's references
- Stay legal and compliant without worry by automating the process
New this year: Power Sessions on Saturday, September 24, at the ASHHRA 52nd Annual Conference!
Immerse yourself in a daylong interactive learning experience dedicated to enrich your skills in leadership, talent strategy or labor and legislative matters. The Power Sessions are designed specifically for you to attend as an all-day experience; each presentation is intended to incrementally build your competencies on one specific topic. Receive a certificate of attendance to take back to the office and proudly display your commitment to health care HR. Click here for more information.
ASHHRA Annual Conference savings: Full Conference and Conference Package registrants can take $50 off with discount code here or $100 off each for a group of three attendees or more from the same organization!
Add CHHR to your credentials
Join the ranks of health care HR specialists who have attained CHHR certification. With the CHHR behind your name, it shows you to be a professional of the highest caliber: One who truly knows the field and is savvy to current best practices. ASHHRA members who qualify and apply for a CHHR Scholarship will receive a voucher for the full CHHR exam fee (a $295 value)!
Congratulations to the following who have attained their CHHR in 2016 – you too could be on this list!:
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Tracy Burpee, Charlotttesville, Va.
Lori Hoekstra, Kankakee, Ill.
Heather Creeden, Acworth, Ga.
Karen Littlefield, Belfast, Maine
Dana Brandt, New Braunfels, Texas
Christopher Westbrook, Augusta, Ga.
Tracy Braman, Saint Joseph, Mich.
Alex Hayman, New Braunfels, Texas
Dawn Rose, Chicago, Ill.
Nicole Schell, Alexandria, Minn.
Tara Kleas, Fort Worth, Texas
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Zachariah Wheeler, Thomasville, Ga.
Lotus Yon, Northbrook, Ill.
Karen Littlefield, Belfast, Maine
Kim Rainer, New Braunfels, Texas
Richard Pea, Freelandville, Ind .
Lisa Halley, Gallipolis, Ohio
Sabrina Thweatt, Boerne, Texas
Elizabeth Bennoch, Norway, Maine
Chris Wilkes, Maryville, Tenn.
Holly Winn, Black River Falls, Wis.
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Certificate in Diversity Management in Health Care (CDM), Fall Enrichment Program (FEP), IFD September Diversity Webinar
A Few Slots Still Available – Enroll in the CDM Fellowship Today
Register today to learn and develop strategies unique to health care, access a diversity expert network and create a diversity and disparities action plan for your organization.
Registration is open through Sept. 18, but space is limited – secure your 2016-2017 position today! For more information on the fellowship, click here or contact Jetaun Mallett, at (312) 422-2692 or at ifd-cdm@aha.org. Members of the Institute receive a $1,000 discount off the cost of registration. To find out if your organization is a member, please contact Pamela Janniere at (312) 422-2691 or at pjanniere@aha.org.
Don’t Miss Out – Meet Your Future Health Care Leader Today
The Institute's Fall Enrichment Program (FEP) returns for a second cycle. Registration for FEP is now open for host sites interested in participating. Host sites are encouraged to register early in order to take advantage of this unique opportunity to recruit pre-vetted talent from accredited health care administration programs nationwide. For more details on the 2016 FEP, please click here or contact Jasmin Clark, membership and education specialist, at jclark@aha.org. For details on the Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute, an internship program for undergraduate students, please click here.
September Diversity Dialogue: How Chief Diversity Officers Can Elevate their Impact Across the Organization by Leveraging Data and Engaging Partners (a/k/a Chief Diversity Officer Impact: How Systemic Organizational Change Can Occur)
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Time: 1:00pm ET, 12:00pm CT, 11:00am MT, 10:00am PT
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenters: Nydia Gonzalez, vice president & chief diversity officer, JPS Health Network and Audra Davis, managing partner & organizational psychologist, The Exeter Group
Price: Free for IFD Members; $99 fee for non-IFD members
To register for the webinar CLICK HERE.
This webinar is eligible for 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEU) of credit.
Gonzalez and Davis will share how JPS Health Network engaged human resources, organizational development, patient experience and supplier diversity, among other functions, to understand employee, patient, community and supplier barriers for diversity and inclusion at the large county hospital.
For more information, click here or contact Pamela Janniere, manager of membership, marketing and education, at pjanniere@aha.org.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Hospitals looking to improve gender diversity in their senior ranks may need to change their communication style to retain female talent, reports the Chicago Tribune. Boston Consulting Group studied and compared professional satisfaction of men and women within its own workforce. BCG gathered its results from an annual employee survey completed by more than 200 employees. Here are three important findings.
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Forbes
Diversity is essential to improving the makeup of any organization. With employees from different cultural, ethnic and educational backgrounds, your organization stands to gain both new insights and a competitive edge. But for HR professionals, attracting a diverse range of applicants isn’t always easy. How can you effectively expand your outreach so that your application pool reflects more diverse job seekers?
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MedPage Today
One way to increase diversity in the health professions is to change how health professional schools are admitting students. A new strategy, holistic review, has emerged as a potential solution to the health care workforce diversity problem.
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Fortune
Pay and flexibility matter, but women also want development opportunities and influence over policy. The No. 1 Best Workplace for Women is Texas Health Resources, a nonprofit health system where women make up three-quarters of the workforce and represent two-thirds of mid-level or senior managers.
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Take advantage of the experiences and shared knowledge of 73 of the world’s leading HR professionals – and all for free! The new e-book “Rise of HR” offers the guidance to be a successful HR professional for today’s competitive market and the rest of your career.
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Entrepreneur
A study by the Human Rights Campaign found most LGBT workers remained closeted on the job. That's because many of their colleagues either want to avoid gay people or don't understand what their lives are like in a workplace. They may also worry that they will offend or discriminate someone.
But remaining closeted isn't always the best scenario for an employer: LGBT employees who are out and supported at work, it turns out, are between 20 and 30 percent more productive.
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Harvard Business Review
Most of the work of diversity and inclusion approaches in companies to date has focused on empowering the “out” groups or training the “in” groups about their unconscious biases. This has succeeded only in annoying everyone. Meanwhile, most senior executives are still white men. The more companies talk about it all, the more skeptical everyone becomes.
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By Keith Carlson
Workplace culture is regularly discussed as an important concept in the world of 21st-century corporate life. However, we can sometimes feel most organizations — including those in health care, medicine and nursing — are paying lip service to the idea. Nurse leaders are at the forefront of the profession, and they are in a position to take decisive and inspired action toward making positive workplace culture a reality, not just a buzzword.
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Enterprise Times
Even those companies adopting diversity programs are discovering unexpected roadblocks. Having the will to introduce greater diversity does not always mean diversity is achievable instantly. There are several problems, some of which are more substantial than others. One of the barriers to this is bias. In response to unconscious bias, SAP has announced several improvements to its HRM solution.
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TechRepublic
Several studies demonstrate the benefits of diverse workforces, including increased financial returns. With that in mind, here are 10 programs that some companies are turning to in order to increase blind hiring processes and ensure they are truly hiring the best candidate for the position regardless of race or gender.
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Kaiser Health News
A new white paper suggests that “implicit bias” — doctors and nurses subtly or subconsciously treating some patients differently than others — or patients’ perception of it could have consequences for people’s health. Patients who felt that they had experienced bias based on factors like race, income or insurance were less likely to follow advice about medication, for instance, and ended up sicker in the long run.
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