ACHE Awards news and information

The 2013 American College of Healthcare Executives awards take on special significance this year.
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Christina “Tina” Freese-Decker's engineering background makes her ideally suited to chipping away at the challenges that face healthcare systems across the country.
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Wayne Lerner has a habit of putting his hospital's community and staff ahead of himself, no matter where he's served in a career that has spanned nearly four decades.
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Over the past two decades, Thomas Dolan's dynamic leadership of the American College of Healthcare Executives transformed the professional association by anticipating and responding to the pressing challenges of 21st century healthcare.
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Modern Healthcare profiles the winners of awards given by the American College of Healthcare Executives, including the The Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year, given to recognize early careerists for outstanding achievements in the field of healthcare...
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During the decade-plus that Major Gen. David Rubenstein has served in a series of senior leadership positions in the U.S. Army's medical operations, he and his colleagues have faced a series of challenges related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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As CEO of Community Hospital in Munster, Ind., Donald Fesko has brought about a change in culture that's resulted in rising patient-satisfaction scores and greater teamwork among vice presidents.
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Michael Waters led his organization through several transformations in healthcare management during his nearly quarter-century as CEO at Hendrick Health System in Abilene, Texas, where he served from 1980 to 2004.
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When Alyson Pitman Giles became president and CEO of CMC Healthcare System in Manchester, N.H., 13 years ago, she inherited an organization losing $6 million a year.
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Situated in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, El Camino Hospital fired up its first computers in 1967 and had electronic medical records by 1971. Since Kenneth Graham became president and CEO of the 542-bed hospital in 2006, he's carried on that tradition of technological innovation.
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