Washington DC Cluster 2017

This seminar will focus on the current healthcare environment for military candidates, including advantages and disadvantages of entering the workforce after a military career. You will learn from others who have moved from military to civilian healthcare.

Seminar Objectives:

• Identify the professional development techniques needed for success, including interviewing skills and preparing a resume.
• Discuss ways to avoid making the three biggest resume mistakes.
• Gain effective networking tips and resources.
• Discover methods for evaluating and negotiating a job offer.
• Review survey results of transitioned military personnel.

Presented by:

• Christopher L. Morgan, FACHE, CEO, Health Strategies, LLC
• Stephanie Underwood, Vice President, Phillips DiPisa & Associates

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.

As the paradigm shifts for delivering care, senior leaders will need to reassess their role and their organization’s place in the care continuum. New solutions to old problems will need to be developed. This interactive seminar will help you chart your organization’s course through our ever-changing healthcare landscape. Expert faculty will discuss new care delivery models, with a special emphasis placed on best practices and lessons learned from the first round of pay for performance, shared risk and payment innovation. You will discover tools and strategies to aid in the change from fee for service to risk-based payment methodologies including a deep dive into how telemedicine and remote-patient monitoring can enhance value-based models.

Seminar Objectives:

• Discuss the critical elements of an effective population health management strategy including network development, financial requirements and clinical care model.
• Review network integration models outlining vertical and horizontal integration.
• Apply critical success factors in moving toward value-based care.
• Design a proactive take-home readiness assessment and action plan.
• Examine the application of telemedicine and remote-patient monitoring in value-based care.

Who Should Attend:

CEOs, COOs, CMOs and other senior operations leaders.

Presented by:

• Kevin Cook,  President & CEO, University Hospitals & Health System/University of Mississippi Medical Center

Previously titled "Breakthroughs in Value-Based Care."

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.

The traditionally organized medical staff, with rotating voluntary leaders and economic and political tensions, no longer serves the best interests of healthcare organizations. What is needed is a contemporary medical staff model that can work effectively with executive leaders at all levels of the organization to facilitate innovation and transformational change.

Seminar Objectives:

• Understand the evolution of the organized medical staff from a divisive group to a fully integrated model, highlighting the case for a comprehensive redesign
• Maximize the key functions of the organized medical staff to increase focus on collaboration, continual improvement and aligned goals
• Discover how top-performing healthcare organizations work with medical staff in new and innovative ways to optimize quality and service and significantly reduce operating costs
• Examine the new world of dual accountabilities and how it can be effectively managed
• Recognize the potential pitfalls when orchestrating an extensive organizational medical staff redesign

Who Should Attend:

CEOs, COOs, CMOs and other senior-level executives, board leaders, physician and nursing leaders (formal and informal) and medical staff service professionals (MSSP).

Presented by:

• Jonathan Burroughs, MD, FACHE, President & CEO, The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc

Today, virtually all hospitals and health systems employ physicians; yet they often struggle with the financial and strategic performance of the embedded medical practices. This two-day seminar examines the tools needed to improve the performance of embedded medical practices in integrated health systems or health systems that employ physicians or other providers. Participants will be encouraged to share personal experiences to augment the seminar’s case studies and evidence-based research focused on improving the strategic, financial, operational, clinical and cultural performance of embedded medical practices.

Seminar Objectives:

• Opportunities for goal alignment between integrated health systems and their embedded medical groups
• Strategies to position medical practices as key drivers of overall health system performance
• Methods used by large, successful, independent, multispecialty and single-specialty medical group practices to organize and deliver medical services and how they can benefit integrated health system practices
• Nontraditional performance improvement tools and skill sets to apply to common challenges experience by embedded medical practices
• Skills for developing and coaching physician leaders and clinical dyad leadership teams

Presented by:

• Daniel K. Zismer, PhD, Chair and Director, MHA and Executive Studies Programs, University of Minnesota
• David L. Klocke, FACHE, Senior Medical Director, Blue Cross Blue Shield

Seminar leader Daniel K. Zismer, PhD, co-founder and managing director, Castling Partners, and David L. Klocke, MD, FACHE, CMO, Regional Health, will use case studies and evidence-based research to share strategies for improving performance of medical practices embedded within hospitals and health systems.

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.

Project management tools can be used to implement the most important strategic initiatives facing healthcare executives today: accountable care organizations, affiliations, quality and process improvement initiatives, revenue cycle programs and more. The outcomes of these high-priority projects can be critical to both your organization and career. This seminar will provide you with the necessary tools to help you integrate project management into your organization’s culture.

Seminar Objectives:

• Measure project performance using metrics
• Hold project managers and team members accountable for performance
• Create a program management office that gets results
• Develop and use a critical path tool to keep your schedule in line
• Prevent "scope creep" and other costly changes to your project

Who Should Attend:

CEOs, COOs, senior-level executives and physician leaders. Participants from the same organization are encouraged to attend as a team.

Presented by:

• Laura W. Synnott, FACHE, Assoc Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Discover lessons from 10 years of published research identifying the tangible attributes that allow top performers to rapidly execute their strategies and achieve significant performance improvement.

Seminar Objectives:

• Implement the goal-setting/goal-achieving processes used by top-quartile provider organizations.
• Design an accountability structure that improves the execution of needed changes and makes progress, or its absence, instantly visible.
• Create an organizational bias toward action and overcome the inevitable resistance and objections that come with leading change.
• Identify the senior leader’s role in ensuring performance improvement efforts produce a tangible ROI.
• Examine the tangible traits to lead change and the improvements that are the key predictors to successful outcomes.

Who Should Attend:

CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CNOs, senior quality leaders and other executives.

Presented by:

• Gregory S. Butler, President, Caldwell Butler & Associates LLC
• J. Alan Kent, DHA, FACHE, President & CEO, Meadows Regional Medical Ctr

Gain healthcare analytics understanding and skills necessary to develop, deploy and execute an analytics strategy as well as create a data driven decision-making culture. Expert faculty will introduce the foundational understanding of healthcare analytics, an analytics maturity model, leadership strategies for guiding an organization to embrace analytics as a decision tool, and present detailed case studies of healthcare analytics in action supporting both clinical and operational data driven decision making. This program will give you an understanding of the current state of healthcare analytics and practical operational insights into organizational reporting structure, job descriptions, training, data management, infrastructure, governance and more.

Seminar Objectives:

• Gain a stronger understanding of analytics and how it can support healthcare decisions
• Assess and refine a plan for closing analytics resource gaps
• Gauge and assess analytical maturity in terms of data, infrastructure, governance, and analytics competency
• Utilize examples of practical clinical and business analytics in action

Who Should Attend:

Healthcare executives interested in assessing and focusing on analytics competencies within their organizations, or those that have made analytical-oriented investments and want to ensure their success.

Presented by:

• James E. Gaston, Senior Director Maturity Models, HIMSS Analytics
• Chad W. Konchak, Director, Clinical Analytics, NorthShore University Health System

Gaston and Konchak will be presenting at the 2020 New York and Savannah Clusters.

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.

Today, virtually all hospitals and health systems employ physicians; yet they often struggle with the financial and strategic performance of group medical practices. This two-day seminar will examine the methods to evaluate medical group leadership, alignment and operational performance gaps. In addition, participants will explore techniques to rapidly realize value from the gap opportunities. Participants will be encouraged to share personal experiences to augment the seminar’s case studies and evidence-based research focused on improving medical group alignment and performance. In addition, attendees will develop a road map for success.

Seminar Objectives:

• Evaluate the physician landscape and resources to meet the markets needs.
• Explore strategies for engaging physicians transitioning to a value based world
• Create standard care models that re key to maintaining a highly efficient platform
• Leverage academic and community physician relationships

Who Should Attend:

Clinical and administrative leaders from hospitals, health systems, group practices, academic medical centers, and military and VA medical centers.

Presented by:

• Brian J. Silverstein, MD, Director, The Chartis Group
• David Fairchild, MD, Director, BDC Advisors

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.

Delve deeper into what financial benefits a well-managed nonprofit hospital can receive, even in a down economy, and the approaches that can be used to maximize operational returns.

Seminar Objectives:

• Dramatically improve your organization’s bottom line through effective supply chain and labor management.
• Interpret key financial reports to gauge financial performance.
• Establish standards for the profitability, viability or sustainability of clinical service lines.
• Understand the impact of the financial management environment on your ability to move forward on major capital projects.

Who Should Attend:

This advanced level course is recommended for CEOs, COOs, service line managers and others who need to know more about the financial management of their operations.

Presented by:

• Jeff Rooney, Managing Director, Martin Dunville, LLC
• Charmaine S. Rochester, DHA, CPA, FACHE, CFO/Senior Vice President, Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital

Guide your board toward the new and challenging governance strategies that are necessary to successfully provide oversight, withstand scrutiny and minimize liability.

Seminar Objectives:

• Prepare for new expectations of governance bodies, and translate emerging best practices.
• Assess key steps CEOs must take to assess, manage and improve relationships with their boards and board chairs.
• Avoid typical traps when dealing with your board, and learn to positively guide strategic decisions.
• Develop a tailored action plan you can immediately apply.

Who Should Attend:

CEOs and senior executives who interact with their boards. Senior-level executives and their board members are encouraged to attend as a team.

Presented by:

• James E. Orlikoff, President, Orlikoff & Associates

As the U.S. healthcare system undergoes profound transformation, healthcare leaders must adapt and evolve amidst their changing realities. This seminar will provide attendees with the ability to make solid decisions and optimize strategic changes when faced with uncertainty. Discover answers to critical questions such as which strategies will provide leaders with the ability to thrive during these uncertain times and what new investments and capabilities are needed to successfully lead strategic change. You will learn the four building blocks to good decision making and common decision traps. You will also be introduced to a scenario planning tool and a framework to help you develop future alternatives. Take away a simple four-step model to optimize execution and drive change.

Seminar Objectives:

• Recognize and overcome barriers to deal with the market uncertainties in the nation’s healthcare system.
• Gain successful models for driving change to improve your individual and organization’s capabilities.
• Discover and practice the stages of successful strategic execution, especially as related to culture change.

Who Should Attend:

CEOs and other senior executives, including administrative and clinical leaders. Participation by several members of the same team is encouraged.

Presented by:

• Jim Austin, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Brown University, MHL