According to the National Association of Health Services Executives: 45 Years of Breaking the Color Line in Health Care Management Book:
The Baltimore Chapter (founded 1968; reinstated 1990)
“The proximity of Baltimore to the Washington, D.C. chapter can get its members to be schizophrenic. A number of NAHSE members may live in one location and work in the other. The member has some difficulty deciding which chapter to join. The chapters have collaborated on legislative days, summer picnics, and holiday receptions. The key membership pocket surrounds Johns Hopkins Health System where a number of chapter members are employed. Baltimore lays claim to Charles Tilden, a NAHSE founder and former Associate Administrator of Provident Hospital before becoming President of Baltimore Community College. He was the first inductee into the NAHSE Hall of Fame. Tilden credits Elliott Roberts and Henry Whyte for preparing him to take and pass the American College of Hospital Administrators (nee ACHE) membership examination.
Renee Frazier was instrumental in the reinstatement of Baltimore as a chapter when she initiated conversation with Everard Rutledge and Percy Allen. Renee was elected president of the reconstituted chapter during the national term of president Kevin Lofton. The Baltimore leadership team was sworn in by Andrea Price, a member of the Washington, D.C., chapter and chairman of the national NAHSE Membership Committee. Prominent members who were recruited to the organization include Peggy Allen, Allen Bennett, Peggy Griffith, William Jews, Josephine Goode Johnson, Gerald Jordan, Paula McCullen, Calvin Pearson, Stu Simms, Kurt Schmoke, former Baltimore mayor and his wife Patricia.
Prominent national chapter members have come from Baltimore. Former national NAHSE presidents, committee chairs, and young senior administrators of the year have come from Baltimore including Percy Allen, Herbert Buchanan, Jennifer Campbell, Larry Campbell, Colene Daniel, Kenneth Grant, Howard Jessamy, Dalton Tong, and Michael Wright. Baltimore hosted the 1994 and 2005 national education meetings. The work to put on a successful program brings the chapter membership together, but it also exhausts its chapters members physical and emotionally. Baltimore is known for having the most profitable chapter with its annual scholarship dinner. The demands of organizing the 2005 meeting set the chapter back because it advanced the National NAHSE initiatives to the detriment of its local Chapter initiatives. Speaking for the chapter, Ken Grant remarks that familiar faces in the organization create a collegial relationship that develops into close friendships that have endured over the years. Members of the Baltimore and the Washington Metropolitan chapters have joined together for winter holiday and summer picnic activities which has ushered in the discussion of consolidating the chapter into one.
Baltimore attracts up to 100 registrants at its monthly meetings, but the participants are more “friends” of the organization than members. The Chapter acknowledges that it has to develop a value-proposition for prospective members and then has to close the deal by getting its “friends” to commit to membership and an ongoing committed relationship with the organization. The Chapter focus for 2013 and beyond is on succession planning and developing early careerists to assume leadership positions in the organization.
The Baltimore Chapter (founded 1968; reinstated 1990)
“The proximity of Baltimore to the Washington, D.C. chapter can get its members to be schizophrenic. A number of NAHSE members may live in one location and work in the other. The member has some difficulty deciding which chapter to join. The chapters have collaborated on legislative days, summer picnics, and holiday receptions. The key membership pocket surrounds Johns Hopkins Health System where a number of chapter members are employed. Baltimore lays claim to Charles Tilden, a NAHSE founder and former Associate Administrator of Provident Hospital before becoming President of Baltimore Community College. He was the first inductee into the NAHSE Hall of Fame. Tilden credits Elliott Roberts and Henry Whyte for preparing him to take and pass the American College of Hospital Administrators (nee ACHE) membership examination.
Renee Frazier was instrumental in the reinstatement of Baltimore as a chapter when she initiated conversation with Everard Rutledge and Percy Allen. Renee was elected president of the reconstituted chapter during the national term of president Kevin Lofton. The Baltimore leadership team was sworn in by Andrea Price, a member of the Washington, D.C., chapter and chairman of the national NAHSE Membership Committee. Prominent members who were recruited to the organization include Peggy Allen, Allen Bennett, Peggy Griffith, William Jews, Josephine Goode Johnson, Gerald Jordan, Paula McCullen, Calvin Pearson, Stu Simms, Kurt Schmoke, former Baltimore mayor and his wife Patricia.
Prominent national chapter members have come from Baltimore. Former national NAHSE presidents, committee chairs, and young senior administrators of the year have come from Baltimore including Percy Allen, Herbert Buchanan, Jennifer Campbell, Larry Campbell, Colene Daniel, Kenneth Grant, Howard Jessamy, Dalton Tong, and Michael Wright. Baltimore hosted the 1994 and 2005 national education meetings. The work to put on a successful program brings the chapter membership together, but it also exhausts its chapters members physical and emotionally. Baltimore is known for having the most profitable chapter with its annual scholarship dinner. The demands of organizing the 2005 meeting set the chapter back because it advanced the National NAHSE initiatives to the detriment of its local Chapter initiatives. Speaking for the chapter, Ken Grant remarks that familiar faces in the organization create a collegial relationship that develops into close friendships that have endured over the years. Members of the Baltimore and the Washington Metropolitan chapters have joined together for winter holiday and summer picnic activities which has ushered in the discussion of consolidating the chapter into one.
Baltimore attracts up to 100 registrants at its monthly meetings, but the participants are more “friends” of the organization than members. The Chapter acknowledges that it has to develop a value-proposition for prospective members and then has to close the deal by getting its “friends” to commit to membership and an ongoing committed relationship with the organization. The Chapter focus for 2013 and beyond is on succession planning and developing early careerists to assume leadership positions in the organization.
