EVENT CANCELED: Savannah Cluster 2020

Move beyond the basics of developing a strategic plan by learning to make your plans more targeted, gain support and facilitate successful implementation through ongoing strategic management.

Seminar Objectives:

• Manage the planning process and the execution of the strategic plan
• Recognize how to set clear, visionary goals and priorities for your organizations
• Distinguish how to make the transition from periodic strategic planning to ongoing strategic management and how this can yield important financial and nonfinancial benefits
• Generate broad support and enthusiasm within the organization for key recommendations in the plan
• Manage the review process of the strategic plan and the use of feedback to make improvements

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, Director, Veralon
• Meredith C. Inniger, Manager, Veralon 

To successfully lead in an increasingly pay-for-value environment, healthcare executives must be able to convert quality metrics—such as case mix index and length of stay—into financial metrics. During this seminar, participants will explore this core competency under the direction of expert faculty members, each of whom has extensive healthcare financial experience. Through review of case studies and hands-on application, you will learn valuable skills, including the financial calculations and ratios that will allow your organization to convert quality metrics to meaningful financial outcomes. Learn to develop business plans for proposed payer and provider contracts that will maximize value and align the organization’s interests with those of key stakeholders. As healthcare rapidly evolves away from pay for volume to pay for value, executives cannot afford to ignore this crucial management competency.

Seminar Objectives:

• Explore the interrelationship between clinical and financial outcomes.
• Discuss why converting quality metrics into financial metrics is a required core skill.
• Calculate ROI of quality projects and pay-for-quality payment methodologies.

Who Should Attend:

All C-suite executives, particularly CEOs, CMOs, CFOs, COOs, and CNOs. All managers who oversee, participate in or negotiate: payer, employment and practitioner contracts. Leaders involved in strategic, financial, operational and quality improvement planning.

Presented by:

• Jon Burroughs, MD, FACHE, President & CEO, The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc
• Richard J. Priore, ScD, FACHE, Excelsior HealthCare Group and Distinguished Service Professor, University of St. Thomas

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

Transformational, proactive and translational are just some of the words used to describe the change processes that are occurring in today’s healthcare environment. Unique skill sets are needed to lead and manage these processes as the healthcare field transforms. During this interactive seminar, expert faculty will discuss the coaching skills needed to drive performance through daily problem solving and continuous staff development. You will gain insight on your organization’s capacity for change as well as your own.

Seminar Objectives:

• Discover the key leadership competencies required for physician leaders to deliver highly effective results.
• Differentiate between leadership and management requirements for sustaining successful personal and organizational change
• Attain tools and skills for successful change
• Gain strategies for talent management as change processes are implemented and managed

Who Should Attend:

C-suite and senior-level healthcare executives who play a role in leading change in their organizations or who are preparing for the next level of leadership.

Presented by:

• Tom Atchison, EdD, President, Atchison Consulting, LLC

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

The demands you face as a healthcare executive are continually growing. Adopting population health strategies presents challenges to running your own organization, while at the same time you may be asked to partner with others to address the social needs of your community. The initiatives you undertake to enhance community health may require changes in healthcare delivery. You may also find yourself leading a community healthcare program. This interactive seminar will help prepare you to lead your organization in its new role as a steward of health, and it will provide the foundation for designing and adapting to a community-oriented healthcare model.

Seminar Objectives:

• How to apply the key principles of a relationship-building model to create sustainable and strategic collaborations with partners outside of the healthcare system
• Leadership competencies to move your organization forward as a meaningful steward of health
• The essential elements of a socially-responsible healthcare system
• Ways to develop and unify your organization's role within a community-based, public healthcare model using the collective impact framework, which is a process for solving problems through structured collaboration

Who Should Attend:

CEO, COO, CFO, Senior Executives, Department Heads/Directors, Clinical Executives (Physicians/Nurses), Managers

Presented by:

• Mark J. Bittle, DrPH, FACHE, Dir of MHA Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The healthcare industry is accelerating the transition from inpatient to ambulatory care as payment models move increasingly from volume to value. Ambulatory venues have lower cost structures, enable more flexible care models, and provide optimized service and value outcomes. This seminar will explore how ambulatory models provide unlimited ways to optimize clinical outcomes at a fraction of the traditional cost. Expert faculty will highlight the essential operational competencies for ambulatory management using a variety of ambulatory facilities to illustrate key points. Types of organizations discussed will include accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes, ambulatory surgery centers, primary care centers, retail clinics and e-health platforms. You will review a cross section of today’s ambulatory models and examine the evolving leadership skills that will be needed to optimize their performance.

Seminar Objectives:

• Investigate the mandate to move traditional clinical services into the ambulatory setting and the opportunity that this provides to create new, innovative clinical and business models.
• Discuss the operational competencies needed to manage ambulatory care models successfully.
• Explore some of the many ambulatory models available for development and customization by your organization.
• Discover how leading healthcare organizations work to continuously innovate and reimagine ambulatory delivery systems.

Who Should Attend:

Healthcare leaders at all levels who are interested in leading, managing or innovating with ambulatory healthcare delivery systems.

Presented by:

• Jon Burroughs, MD, JD, FACHE, President/CEO, The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network Inc.

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.