ACHENTX Executive Connection - Summer 2022

Message from Our ACHE Regent, Northern Esteemed Colleagues, Can you believe we are approaching the summer months?

This year is moving quickly. Time truly waits for no one. The official start of summer is a few short weeks away. For many, this is a time to plan our travels, prep for cookouts, and enjoy family-centric outdoor activities. For some, this is a time to stay inside, crank up the A/C, sip on frozen drinks, and plan how to hide from the severe Texas heat. Whatever option you prefer, I pray you have a fun-filled, safe summer.

Texas Northern region, we are truly blessed. ACHE is filled with talented, hardworking, dedicated members. Each day we give of ourselves to ensure better outcomes for those within our organizations. We put our “best selves” into our promise to honor and promote the mission and ministry of healthcare. We are blessed with the gifts we possess – and those gifts were given for a purpose. Our assignment is one of utmost importance: To work diligently to promote the health and well-being of our communities. This is no easy feat, but we laugh in the face of challenges that attempt to thwart this mission each day. We are to uphold these sacred duties – not just in word, but in action as well. We want to be known as doers, not just talkers. We want to be seen as pavement pounders, not just policy pushers. We want to fight for the greater good and our collaborative goal is to leave this healthcare world in better shape than it was in when we entered it. We want to leave our mark, change the world, and help the masses. Our caring is all-inclusive. Our passion is all encompassing. Our dedication is all-heart. Our drive is fullthrottle. We have the knowledge, the expertise, and the power to change the landscape of healthcare for our loved ones and our communities…if we work together to do so.

There is one glaring truth of which the pandemic reminded us on many occasions – There’s room for improvement in the level of trust between our communities and healthcare as a profession. I believe that people do not care what we know until they know we care. Many of us have dedicated our lives to caring for our communities, but how do we relay this sentiment to our public who may not know of the late