The 8th Annual American Health Care Congress and Exhibition

The 2011 AHCC Leadership Summit

The 2011 AHCC Leadership Summit convenes CEOs, COOs, CMOs, CIOs, CAOs, CFOs, Chief Innovation Officers, Chief Strategy Officers and senior executives from Hospitals, Health Systems, Integrated Delivery Networks, Physician Groups, Health Plans and Employers to exchange strategies with their peers on leading change in the new era of health care delivery. Leadership, Finance, Culture, Health IT and Analytics issues and strategies are discussed to improve the overall efficiency and outcomes of our delivery system.

Monday, December 5, 2011
Leadership Summit—Preparing for the New Era of Health Care Delivery
2:15 pm -
3:00 pm
Engaged, Healthy, Resilient Employees—How Workplace Wellness is good for the Business Bottom Line
  • Role of lifestyle related illness in skyrocketing chronic conditions and health care costs
  • Creating a culture of worksite wellness and health
  • Implementing disease management and health coaching
  • Linking benefits design and incentives to a workplace wellness program
  • Achieving results for individuals, population health and cost reduction
Tammie Brailsford, RN, MA
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
MemorialCare Health System
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3:00 pm -
3:45 pm
Managing Financial Risks of Accountable Care—New Health Care Delivery Models
  • Managing the financial risks of becoming an accountable care provider and providing value based care in a fee for service system
  • Collaborating with stakeholders on new payment and delivery models to develop risk management strategies, performance benchmarks, reduce costs and remain cost competitive
  • Analyze the financial risks of the aging population to the delivery system and available financial models to manage these risks
  • Leverage approaches to healthy aging to help mitigate the financial risks of the aging population
Richard Afable, MD, MPH
President and Chief Executive Officer
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
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A. Dean Sherzai, MD, MAS, PhD
Director of Memory and Aging Center
Director of Research, Neurology
Loma Linda University
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4:30 pm -
5:15 pm
Cultural Transformations for the Future of Healthcare
  • Critical success factors and indicators to foster an accountable culture
  • Creating a culture of innovation to engage multiple stakeholders and prepare for continuous change
  • Transforming the culture from within the health care setting to adapt to rapid shifts in delivery models
Michael Knecht
Mission and Culture
Loma Linda University Medical Center
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5:15 pm -
6:00 pm
Using IT to Improve Population Health
  • Developing strategic clinical data systems to investigate population health issues
  • Utilizing population health data to inform health system decision making
  • Merging geographic and environmental data with medical records for a dramatic improvement in population health status
Waheed K. Baqai, MPH, CPH
Director Clinical Decision Support
Loma Linda University Medical Center
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Kirk Campbell, MEd
Director of Educational Support Services
Loma Linda University Medical Center
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Leadership Summit—Leading Health Systems through Change
10:55 am -
12:25 pm
Successfully Leading Change in Health Care Organizations—Accelerating, Achieving and Ensuring Sustainability of Organizational Change
  • Communicating change throughout the organization and ensuring buy-in of key stakeholders
  • Accelerating successful change through comprehensive planning, recognizing resistance and enforcing change benefits
  • Partnering with the community and consumers to determine change impact and uptake, and refine plans and goals as needed
  • Utilizing the Malcom Baldrige framework to identify key metrics and drive strategic planning for improved health care outcomes and the pursuit of performance excellence
  • Sustaining change in the short and long term through frequent assessment of change plans and goals
  • Engaging physicians and key staff in change process and sharing in change rewards
Sandra Coletta, BS, MBA
President and CEO
Kent Hospital
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Kevin L. Unger, FACHE
President and CEO
Poudre Valley Hospital
Winner of the 2008 Balridge Quality Award
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Moderator
Michael S. Goldman, FACHE
President and CEO
Insight Oncology, Inc.
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4:45 pm -
6:15 pm
Achieving the Triple Aim in Health Care
  • Interdependency of cost, quality, population health, and patient satisfaction
  • Passage of HITECH legislation and the impact/implications of EMR systems on increasing efficiency
  • Role of standardization in health care as a means for improving quality and efficiency
  • Role of technology in collecting and analyzing utilization data to identify areas of variation or high incidences of chronic disease states
  • Role of the employer in promoting the health of employees
  • Role of the individual in promoting personal health
  • Prevention, including employee wellness, as a bold business strategy
  • Value of hospitals, physicians, insurers, and other providers working collaboratively to achieve the triple aim
Terry Belmont
Chief Executive Officer
UC Irvine Medical Center
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Diana Hendel, PharmD
Chief Executive Officer
Long Beach Memorial, Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach, and Community Hospital Long Beach
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Moderator
Matthew Gerlach, FACHE
Vice President/Chief Operating Officer, Glendale Memorial Hospital & Health Center;
Past President, Health Care Executives of Southern California (HCE)
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