Community Hospital 100 Conference Overview
Community Hospital 100 invites you to participate in a private forum, focused exclusively on the needs of community hospital senior-level executives.
Generate Value for Your Hospital
Our goal is to make this the best overall conference experience of your year. We’ve considered every detail to optimize the productivity of your time and expense. You’ll return home energized and armed with new ideas for yourself and your organization.
Connect the Present to the Future
The educational program is crafted with your responsibilities as a community hospital leader in mind. With a mix of big-picture and near-term issues, you’ll find the sessions both thought-provoking and immediately useful.
Meet With Your Peers
With limited, by-invitation attendance, you’ll meet with like-minded hospital and health system leaders and build valuable relationships.
Who Attends
Community Hospital 100 is for CEOs, Presidents, Administrators, CFOs, COOs, CNOs and CMOs from hospitals with 300 or fewer beds. Attendance is limited to 100 hospitals. A limited number of spaces are available for the executive management of Community Hospital Systems.

| Sunday, October 23 |
| 8:00 am – 2:00 pm |
Recreation
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| 8:45 am – 2:00 pm |
Golf
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| 12:30 – 2:00 pm |
BBQ Lunch
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| 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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| 7:00 – 9:00 pm |
Opening Reception & Dinner |
| 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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| 6:30 – 10:00 pm |
“Organic Elegance” Reception, Dinner & Dessert Social
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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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