Education
Participate in an executive-led educational program that examines best practices and new thinking for improving and growing your community hospital and health system.
2011 Educational Program
| Sunday, October 23 |
| 2:30 – 4:30 pm |
Executive MBA Program
All Hands on Deck: 8 Essential Lessons for Building a Culture of Ownership with Joe Tye
Why doesn’t anyone change the oil in a rental car? This extended workshop will show how living an organizational statement of values encourages people to own their work, versus simply “renting a spot” on the organization chart.
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| 5:15 – 6:30 pm |
Speed Meetings
A new feature that allows you to meet solution partners in a rapid-structure format. Participants will be able to conduct up to 8 meetings in one hour.
Be sure to reserve your space when you register.
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| Monday, October 24 |
| 7:00 – 8:00 am |
Just Announced! Independent Hospital Roundtables
These roundtables will allow executives of hospitals not in a system to connect and share insights related to their specific challenges. Participants can indicate interest when registering and will then be assigned to a roundtable based on their hospital’s characteristics.
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| 8:00 – 9:30 am |
General Session
Beyond Accountability: Leading the Health of Our Communities
The healthcare system of the future will ask acute care to play a dramatically different role — one that nearly turns it on its head.
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| 10:00 – 11:00 am |
Concurrent Sessions
- The Future of the Independent Hospital
- Job One for CEOs: Excellence Through and Through
- Avoiding Readmissions through Post-Acute Partnerships
- How does the Community Hospital Fit into a Medicare ACO?
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| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
General Session
Towards Accountable Care: Innovating for Efficiency and Effectiveness
There’s no shortage of structural forces weighing on our hospital executive teams: Medicare, Medicaid and commercial ACOs, continued adjustments to the DRG reimbursement basis, value based purchasing, and other accountable care initiatives.
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| 1:30 – 2:30 pm |
Roundtable Discussions
Roundtable discussions are conducted in groups of 10–12 around a focused topic. Facilitators will poll attendees prior to the conference about their interests and questions related to the topic.
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| Tuesday, October 25 |
| 8:00 – 9:30 am |
General Session
The Innovator’s Prescription with Clayton Christensen
Renowned author and Professor Clayton Christensen recently examined the healthcare industry through his famous strategic lens of ‘disruptive innovation’.
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| 10:00 – 11:00 am |
Concurrent Sessions
- The Quest for Patient Safety: Getting to High Reliability
- The EHR, Physician Alignment and ACOs
- Clinical Integration and the Road to Clinical Effectiveness
- Partnering with a System: Why, When and How?
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| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
Closing General Session
Moving from Me to We: A Practicing Surgeon’s Journey to Collaboration
Successful hospital/physician alignment relies as much on soft skills as hard dollars. A practicing locum tenens surgeon will discuss how physicians can evolve in their thinking and action to collaborate with hospitals.
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I found the conference very much worth my time — both educational and networking. It was great to come together with similar hospital CEO's and executives to hear their approaches and thoughts to today's challenging 
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