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Thursday, April 28, 2011
7:30 am -
8:30 am
Registration and Welcome Coffee in the Executive Networking Lounge
8:30 am -
8:40 am
CO-CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOME AND DAY TWO OPENING REMARKS
8:40 am -
9:30 am
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Responding to Health Reform - The Next Chapter of Continuous Performance Improvement
  • Understand the need to engage staff and physicians in the pursuit of continuous performance improvement
  • Hear the new take on cultural transformation and providing value for your patients in the context of what is happening externally with health reform
  • How do you continue to improve and accelerate your process improvement efforts?
Patrick Hagan
President and Chief Operating Officer
Seattle Children's Hospital

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9:30 am -
10:30 am
KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION: Cost Containment in the Era of Health Reform – How are You Cutting Waste Out of Your System?
  • Why senior leadership should have a vested interest in cost containment strategies
  • Reducing systematic waste through innovative strategies for reducing cost
  • Discuss how organizations are surviving on Medicare reimbursement rates and the initiatives in place to help with fiscal sustainability
Moderator:
Herb DeBarba
Vice President
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Panelists:
Gerard Colman, FHFMA, FACHE, CPHIM
Senior Vice President and Chief of Clinical Operations
MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Pamela Stoyanoff
Chief Operating Officer
Methodist Dallas Medical Center

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Additional Thought Leaders TBD
10:30 am -
11:00 am
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
11:00 am -
12:40 pm
CONCURRENT EXECUTIVE SEMINARS (Choose 1 of 3)
12:40 pm -
1:40 pm
Networking Luncheon in the Executive Networking Lounge
1:40 pm -
2:30 pm
Customer Driven Excellence – Becoming a High Reliability Organization
  • Define what it means to be a high reliability organization
  • Learn steps on becoming a high reliability organization to increase guest satisfaction
  • Identify and understand how steps for both are interrelated and can together lead to higher outcomes
Mike Schroyer
Chief Operating Officer
St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana

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Lisa Sorenson, RN, MBA, CPHQ
Vice President of Quality and Risk Management
St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana

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2:30 pm -
3:30 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Learning from the Transportation Industry and Applying it to Health Care
Health care is one of the last industries to accept the methodologies of process improvement. The transportation industry has utilized these best practices and tools to increase production and decrease cost for many years. Health care is a different industry from transportation, however, there are many practices that can be applied to health care to decrease costs and improve business processes.
Thought Leader: TBD
3:30 pm
CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSING REMARKS; Summit Concludes
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