National Center for
Healthcare Leadership

Collaboration · Education · Research

NCHL is widely recognized as the premier source for evidence-based healthcare leadership practices, cultivating communities for peer collaboration across organizations, and collectively developing industry models and benchmarks to improve healthcare. 

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We champion three Premier Membership Programs

Convening diverse healthcare leaders, NCHL, in partnership with our member organizations, co-creates innovative, evidence-based tools and insights that enhance organizations’ individual and collective ability to transform and serve.

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Leadership Excellence Networks (LENS)

LENS connects and convenes senior leaders across the healthcare ecosystem to accelerate leadership excellence and organizational performance. Through high-trust peer exchange, shared learning, benchmarking insights, and validated frameworks, LENS enables organizations to develop leaders and drive performance at scale.

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National Council on Administrative Fellowships (NCAF)

NCAF is a national consortium that brings together health systems and graduate programs to define and elevate how healthcare develops its next generation of leaders—through a transparent, standardized, and high-quality fellowship recruitment process.

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US Cooperative for International Patient Programs (USCIPP)

A consortium of US academic medical centers and health systems that work with international patients and hospitals, foreign governments, and other partners from around the world. A program focused on continuing education, market research, benchmarking, and collaboration. 

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