Healthcare Management Forum – July 2026 Edition
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The July 2026 edition of Healthcare Management Forum (HMF) is dedicated to innovative approaches to preparing the next generation of health leaders. Investing in leadership development ensures continuity, stability, and a pipeline of capable people who can steward the health system into the future.
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In this edition:
GUEST EDITOR
The Guest Editor for this edition is Susan Stevens, BSW, MEd, RSW, CHE, EXTRA Fellow, who is a retired health leader, adult educator, and adjunct professor in the Department of Aging and Family Science at Mount Saint Vincent University. She is also the owner of Wyndrock Hill Consulting and a member of the Editorial Board for HMF.
BLOG
Read the blog written by AXDEV Group (lead author Monica Augustyniak, MPH) as they discuss research conducted on point-of-care tests and how health leaders can use this work to evaluate and plan for organizational change. Twenty-four interviews across three Canadian provinces assessed the facilitators and barriers to implementing these tests in an inpatient hospital setting. Among other results, the findings indicate that hospitals could benefit from recruiting information technology expertise to connect existing systems and clinical workflows with point-of-care testing; standardized protocols at the national and organizational level help to facilitate system integration; and there is a need to develop a supportive relationship between point-of-care testing supervisors and end-users to reduce the risk of negative outcomes.
VIDEO
Watch the author insights video by Melissa Corrente, PhD, as she discusses promising practices and interventions that can be used to prevent health worker burnout. She and her co-authors learned the following: listening to frontline staff is essential for creating a short list of interventions that can be tailored to meet the unique needs of different organizations; time, money, and other resources are required to implement sustainable change, along with balancing a top-down and bottom-up approach; and, building on an inherent desire for more connection both within individual sites and across organizations is key.
ARTICLE
Read the article by Michael Morrison, MBA, MDS, as he explores how middle managers working in healthcare interpret, contextualize, and adapt sociotechnical systems to achieve strategic objectives. His work recognizes how formulation, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation are not separate steps in policy and strategy; rather they are entangled and working in concert to deliver outcomes that meet an intent based on principles and planning assumptions. Morrison also provides concrete recommendations to improve middle manager practices in policy and strategy implementation.
ARTICLE
Read the article by Reem Mulla, PhD, MCM, MHM, MBBS, and co-authors as they investigate how resident and facility factors influence antipsychotic use in Canadian long-term care homes, focusing on age and gender disparities. They conducted a retrospective longitudinal analysis of residents aged 65 and older without psychosis in homes across six provinces and territories, using data from the first quarters of 2010-2022.
ARTICLE
Read the article by Stephen Verderber, Arch D, as he discusses how health leaders can use generative artificial intelligence tools to accurately design, construct, and manage their facilities and related systems to remain highly clinically relevant. The physical layouts of hospitals are no longer aligned to patient care needs, but technology has the capacity to deliver best practices.
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