Value-based reform, ACO and bundled payment initiatives and mandates to collaborate with physicians have elevated the need for innovative health system design. Now more than ever, unique and strategic collaborative partnerships, leadership development and aggressive margin improvement are crucial for health system success. This seminar is an action planning forum for C-suite leaders to explore solutions to emerging issues brought about by a changing healthcare environment.

Seminar Objectives:

• Nine high-leverage margin improvement focus areas and over 40 specific projects found among top-performing healthcare organizations
• Effective standardization approaches, including the pros and cons of centralization vs. decentralization as practiced by leading not-for-profit and for-profit health systems
• Four alternative clinical co-management and physician integration structures found in the field and pros and cons of which works best
• Approaches for developing leaders across the organization that will optimize total change capacity by getting “everyone in the game” to accelerate margin improvement, patient experience, and other critical strategies
• Post-acute care and early intervention strategies for achieving full ACO-level and bundled payment quality and efficiency

Who Should Attend:

CEOs and other C-suite leaders of health systems, hospitals, outpatient surgery centers and diagnostic/therapeutic facilities, skilled nursing facilities and long-term rehabilitation facilities.

Presented by:

• Chip Caldwell, LFACHE, Chairman, Caldwell Butler & Associates, LLC
• Kevin S. Cook, President & CEO, University Hospitals & Health System/UMiss Med Ctr

Continuing Education Credit

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

All Choice seminars can be offered as Virtual Interactive programs or live In-Person programs.

For more information about this seminar and Choice programs, contact Martijn van Oort, director, business development, at (312) 288-1872 or choice@ache.org.