In collaboration with other state hospital associations, the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association is proud to present an exciting executive leadership engagement opportunity. The Virtual Executive Leadership Summit brings together expert faculty on topics around healthcare leadership during this evolving climate. The summit is designed for C-Suite executives, including chief medical and nursing officers. Attend all six sessions or select by individual session. Register today and by June 21!

Registration Information

MHA Members can attend all 6-sessions FREE of charge. Members please register here.

Non-members pay $49 per session or a special discounted rate of $249 for all 6 sessions.
       • To register for each individual session, please click register on the session webpage (linked below).
       • To register for the discounted rate for the webinar series, please click here.


Session 1: June 25
Bite Size Coping During Times of Uncertainty

Stressed during uncertain times? If you, your staff or your colleagues are feeling particularly spent, it is probably because the level of emotional exhaustion in health care workers was already at an all-time-high before COVID-19, with one out of three people already meeting the criteria for burnout. In this enlightening and entertaining module, we will provide some perspective, hope, and simple strategies to try during tense times.

Faculty: Bryan Sexton | Safety Culture, Teamwork, and Workforce Resilience Expert 



Session 2: July 9
Update on Coronavirus: What’s Next and How to Plan

Dr. Makary, a leading public health expert at Johns Hopkins and Editor-in-Chief of MedPage Today, reviews the latest on the coronavirus and what organizations can do to prepare for the growing epidemic. Using plain English, he interprets the current data from overseas and U.S. studies projecting the impact in the U.S. Dr. Makary also reviews best practices of employee policies and how to adapt your business to deal with the epidemic in real-time.

Faculty: Marty Makary, MD | Johns Hopkins Surgeon and Professor of Health Policy



Session 3: July 23
The Post-COVID Healthcare Landscape: Implications for Strategy

What will the US health system look like post-COVID-19? Hospitals and health systems will be facing the financial aftereffects of a COVID related economic slowdown or recession. They will also have to deal with the political uncertainties created by the 2020 national election. Finally, they will face the continued threat of disruption of their existing businesses by new technologies and new competitors.  What are the most significant threats, and also opportunities, in this post-COVID landscape? How do health system boards and leadership set strategic priorities for this uncertain near term future?

Faculty: Jeff Goldsmith | President of Health Futures Inc. 





Session 4: August 6
How Hospitals and Health Systems can Lead a :"Quiet Revolution" for Healing During a Pandemic

Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, Ph.D., is the new Dean for George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC  and the former William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law and the F. Palmer Weber Research Professor of Civil Liberties and Human Rights at the University of Virginia School of Law. She holds an appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences, and as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, worked on Capitol Hill, helping to address public health disparities for disadvantaged communities. Because of her great experience in this area, in her presentation Professor Matthew identifies the historic and contemporary role that health providers can play in increasing health equity.  In addition, she defines the need for health care equity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the threats to health equity that have been heightened as a result of this challenging period.

Faculty: Dayna Bowen Matthew | Dean of George Washington University Law School

Session 5: August 20
Unconscious Bias Impacts

The outcomes of unconscious bias can be seen across all industries. But in healthcare, mitigating unconscious bias is of particular importance. Evidence-based impacts of unconscious bias on safety, quality and mortality show that we are unintentionally putting our patients at risk. Cross-cultural competency is a “must have” skill as we define what it means to address, support and manage the ever-changing U.S. population, particularly as the world faces the effects of COVID-19. In this session, you will learn about practical actions that can be taken to reduce the effects of unconscious bias in healthcare operations.

Faculty: Gloria Goins | Former Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health System



Session 6: September 3
The New Healthcare Ecosystem

What the COVID-19 crisis has made abundantly clear is that the current healthcare ecosystem is ill-prepared to deal with the type of healthcare needs that will be typical of the 21st Century. With an aging global demographic that will put more than half of the world's population in the 60+ age group by 2060 the world's real healthcare crisis has barely begun. The challenge isn't advances in medicine, the threat of future pandemics, or our ability to develop new pharmaceuticals and therapies, but rather a healthcare ecosystem that pits payer against provider, forces gaming of the system, poorly orchestrated supply chains, and the enormous burden on providers to handle so many of the administrative aspects of healthcare. The best hope for healthcare is to rethink how to refocus every part of the healthcare ecosystem on what it is best at.

Faculty: Tom Koulopoulos | Chairman of Global Futures Think Tank The Delphi Group 


Registration Details

Registration deadline is June 21. Once registered, you will receive confirmation from MHA securing your spot. Prior to each webinar, you will receive a link to the ZOOM webinar. Each participating state Association has a significant, but limited number of connections, so register NOW and join your peers from across the country for this FIRST EVER Virtual Webinar Series designed exclusively for our hospital C-suite leaders. (For those unable to attend all sessions, a recording will be available for 2 weeks following each presentation).

For any questions, please contact MHA’s Healthcare Education Program Manager, Lindsay Goldfarb at LGoldfarb@mhalink.org.