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Wednesday, April 27, 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 OPENING REMARKS
Bruce Solomon
Chief Operating Officer
Stony Brook University Hospital

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8:40 am -
9:40 am
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Achieving Sustainability and Business Excellence in Health Care
  • Review a model of excellence defined by the health care consumer, with a closed loop system to continuously improve even leadership levels of excellence
  • Consider the implications on price and quality if health care consumers could access trustworthy information on quality, price and convenience among their providers, just as they do for many of their other major consuming decisions
  • Share ideas on what can be done to advance excellence in health care, even as gridlock prevails in Washington, DC
Steve Bonner - Speaker Photo Steve Bonner
Chief Executive Officer
Cancer Treatment Centers of America

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9:40 am -
10:40 am
KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION: Using Process Improvement for Cultural Transformation at an Organizational Level
  • How do you significantly transform the staff, training and entire management to bring lasting process changes
  • Learn how to move past the psychological hurdles for change with both clinical and administrative management
  • Explore avenues to work with physicians, nurses and administrative staff to break down silos of communication
Moderator:
Tim Jones
Chief Operating Officer
MetroWest Medical Center-Leonard Morse Hospital

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Panelists:
Shirley M. Bealer, MS, RN, CNAA, BC, CPHQ
Associate Director
VA North Texas Health Care System

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Claudia Caine
Chief Operating Officer
Lutheran HealthCare

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Margaret Vosburgh
Chief Operating Officer
Tufts Medical Center

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10:40 am -
11:10 am
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
11:10 am -
12:10 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: Leading Change Management – Empowering Organizational Change
  • Discuss the importance of laying a structural foundation that is right for process change which is more important than the process change itself
  • How do you get leadership ready for change?
  • How to deal with unsupported physician preference?
  • Integrating physicians into clinical quality improvement efforts
Barbara K. Sisarcick, RN, BSN, CPHQ, NHA
Executive Director/Administrator
Peterson Rehabilitation Hospital and Geriatric Center

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Deborah K. Weymouth, FACHE
Executive Vice President
Thompson Health
Chief Operating Officer
F.F. Thompson Hospital


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12:10 pm -
1:00 pm
Implementing Process Improvement through Strategic Planning for Quality Initiatives
  • Hear how to plan for quality?
  • What goals should you consider for annual, 3 year and 5 year plans?
  • Do your strategic quality plans equate to the work that is accomplished on daily basis?
  • How do you select methodology to implement process improvement?
    • How do you analyze your processes?
    • How do you refine the process?
  • Learn how to manage your methods and selection process
Maryann Reese, RN, MHA, FACHE
Chief Operating Officer
St. Vincent Healthcare
1:00 pm -
2:00 pm
Networking Luncheon in the Executive Networking Lounge
2:00 pm -
3:40 pm
CONCURRENT EXECUTIVE SEMINARS (Choose 1 of 3)
3:40 pm -
4:10 pm
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
4:10 pm -
5:00 pm
CONCURRENT CASE STUDIES (Choose 1 of 3)
5:00 pm -
6:00 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Challenge of Transparency for Quality Measures and Patient Satisfaction
  • Create transparency of quality measures and scores cards for increased patient satisfaction
  • What are the best practices and tools available to enhance patient satisfaction?
  • Communicate the importance for multi-stakeholder transparency to ensure company wide buy-in
  • Understand the importance of empowerment and accountability of leaders and staff
  • Discuss what to do to change the process
  • What are the reporting requirements?
  • Why do we need to be transparent?
Josee Gill, RN, MSN
Chief Clinical Officer
Emergency Management Coordinator
Upson Regional Medical Center

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Diane Kelly
Chief Operating Officer
Berkshire Medical Center

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6:00 pm -
7:00 pm
Cocktail Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
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