Copper Mountain Cluster 2019

Healthcare leaders know the importance of developing and maintaining strong relationships with their medical staff to support their mission and goals. Misalignment from the prevailing volume-based reimbursement causes wide clinical practice variation and overuse, contributing to rising costs and thinning margins. Finding the right approach among the numerous models, incentive structures and confounding regulations is a strategic imperative that can affect medical staff relations—and organizational performance. During this seminar, uncover the actionable research-based approaches to engaging physicians and aligning their interests with your organization’s strategic and financial goals while working toward a more clinically integrated environment. Before the seminar, participants will complete a brief assessment to begin identifying alignment opportunities. During the seminar, faculty will uncover shared best practices to guide participants’ development of a tailored blueprint to take back to their organizations for high-affinity physician engagement, tighter alignment and improved organizational performance.

Seminar Objectives:

• Explore the impact of physician-hospital relations on organizational performance and leadership effectiveness. 
• Develop an individualized physician-hospital alignment plan.
• Assess and apply personal leadership competencies needed for effective physician-hospital alignment.

Who Should Attend:

Senior-level health system, hospital and group practice executives with responsibility for physician engagement, alignment and integration, including C-suite executives, service line leaders, medical directors and group practice administrators.

Presented by:

• Richard J. Priore, ScD, FACHE, Founder/CEO, Excelsior HealthCare Group/Distinguished Service Professor, Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas
• Mark J. Werner, MD, National Director, Clinical Consulting, The Chartis Group

Healthcare is being transformed by innovative disruptors, new technologies, value-based payment models, consolidation, financial realities and competitive pressures. To thrive in this ever-changing environment, leaders need to know how to correctly interpret the trends and implications so they can respond effectively.

The faculty will lead you and your colleagues through the dynamic future of healthcare via presentation, interactive discussion, and case studies. You will gain valuable insights and identify key strategies to help lead your organization to a successful future.

Seminar Objectives:

• Describe the drivers of change, its pace, and how it’s giving rise to new competitors and potential strategic partners.
• Recognize the breadth of disruptors and innovators and how they can be leveraged to enhance your strategy, operations and market position (and avoid pitfalls).
• Proactively plan for future payment models.
• Identify the future of physician practices.
• Highlight emerging community-based remote and virtual care models—and the opportunities they present.
• Recognize the evolution occurring in mergers and acquisitions and consolidations, while discovering the keys to success in those strategies.
• Identify growth opportunities achievable during financially challenging periods.
• Understand how to enhance the power of strategy development to lead your organization to its desired future.
• Identify critical action steps that will help you transform your organization.

Who Should Attend:

CEOs, COOs, vice presidents, directors of planning, healthcare executives with more than 10 years of administrative experience.

Presented by:

• John M. Harris, Managing Director, Veralon
• Mark Dubow, Director, Veralon

Go beyond the basics of team building to create effective, healthy, collaborative relationships with physicians, board members, peers and staff.

Seminar Objectives:

• Effectively use new tools and techniques to create a shared vision, ownership and alignment
• Distinguish your leadership style, build on your strengths and identify opportunities
• Examine approaches to identify and understand differences and similarities in your partners
• Practice techniques to build shared visions and directions while creating a safe environment for dialogue and discussion
• Better manage organizational success through the insight gained from proven assessment tools

Presented by:

• Gail Scott, President, Gail Scott & Associates

Helping healthcare leaders build productive and healthy systems, partnerships and communities, seminar leader Gail Scott, president, Gail Scott & Associates, has been an educator and consultant for more than 20 years.

Participants must complete a self-assessment prior to the seminar, and once registered you will be contacted with specific instructions from ACHE.

Continuing Education Credit

In addition to the ACHE Face-to-Face Education credits assigned to this seminar, ACHE is accredited by other organizations to provide continuing education credit. View complete information about these organizations.

Influential leadership is about inspiring and motivating performance excellence at all levels of the organization through a highly developed emotional intelligence (EQ) capacity. However, many healthcare executives do not have a clear idea of how their EQ measures up or understand why EQ is a competitive advantage for team performance. Over two days, you will learn and practice the key behaviors necessary to connect with team members and build stronger personal relationships. This program identifies the cause and offers a remedy for closing the gap between consistent leadership behavior and sustained organizational performance. 

Seminar Objectives:

• Distinguish four key behavior types.
• Apply the necessary attributes of self-awareness and self-management.
• Match leading behavior types to optimize team performance.
• Discover the power of collaboration and connection to drive performance through emotional intelligence.

Who Should Attend:

Seasoned healthcare leaders and leaders who are entering the healthcare field.

Presented by:

• Michael E. Frisina, PhD, President, The Frisina Group

Shrinking profit margins due to reductions in Medicare and managed care reimbursement and the escalating cost of providing high-quality patient care have resulted in a renewed emphasis on financial skills for today’s healthcare executives. By understanding the economic and financial conditions that affect your financial outcomes, you can help your organization remain competitive. You will leave this seminar with the financial analysis tools and techniques needed to achieve your organizational and financial goals.

Seminar Objectives:

• Healthcare economic information and how it affects your healthcare organization.
• Details of financial statements and their relevance to the organization’s financial outcomes.
• Financial ratios to measure your organization financial performance against standard benchmarks.
• Key elements of the resource allocation process and how they can be used to improve financial performance.
• Basics of cost accounting and its significant implications for financial performance.
• Prosper in this difficult economic cycle of reduced reimbursement and tightening credit.

Who Should Attend:

Senior- and mid-level executives.

Presented by:

• Michael Nowicki, EdD, FACHE, FHFMA, Professor of Health Admin, Texas State University