Formation 2001 Membership Organizational Website www.nchl.org Type of business Nonprofit organization | Location Nationwide President Tim Rice Founded 2001 | |
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Mission To ensure that high quality, relevant and accountable leadership is available to meet the challenges of health in the 21st century. Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, United States Similar American College of Healthcar, American Hospital Association, Rush University Medical, Henry Ford Health System, Healthcare Financial Manage | ||
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) is a U.S.-based non-governmental organization that was established to pursue excellence in leadership development in health and health care systems, as well as in degree programs related to healthcare management. NCHL pursues this mission through a combination of research, thought-leader convening, facilitation of inter-organizational collaboratives, and dissemination of findings through white papers and videos from its annual events.
History
NCHL was founded in 2001, as the result of a national summit on healthcare leadership funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which identified a need for greater emphasis within the health sector on adopting organizationally-based leadership development practices. During its early years, NCHL supported an Advanced Leadership Development Program for healthcare executives, and developed a validated National Health Leadership Competency Model in collaboration with the Hay Group. NCHL also established an invitational symposium and national leadership award dinner, which is held every November in Chicago.
In the mid-2000s NCHL, along with CAHME, supported the transformation of graduate healthcare management programs into a competency-based approach. This movement was initially highly controversial, but by 2007 had become an established part of the accreditation process, and was expanded further in the 2013 revision of the CAHME accrediting guidelines.
In Spring of 2011, NCHL developed a joint operating agreement with Rush University Medical Center and the Griffith Leadership Center of the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The agreement was pursued to better position NCHL to support the healthcare leadership development needs associated with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Today much of NCHL's agenda is pursued in close collaboration the Leadership Excellence Networks (LENs). The LENS and its component Councils each focus on specific challenges and opportunities relevant to internal leadership development programs, including physician leadership development, diversity and inclusion, and inter-organizational executive coaching. In 2013, NCHL's programs were expanded to include the US Cooperative for International Patient Programs, an organizational membership program with a mission to expand global access to US expertise in high-quality healthcare. In 2014, NCHL established the first coordinated improvement effort for administrative fellowships, the National Council for Administrative Fellowships. Members include hospitals and health systems that sponsor these post-graduate fellowships, as well as accredited graduate health management programs with a focus on preparing students for careers in the profession of health management.