Keynote Talks

Seeing Beyond Reform: A Leadership Roadmap for Success

As we enter the post ACA world there are clear strategic platforms that winning hospitals and health systems will create and sustain. This session is a review of those platforms and provides a roadmap for C-Suite leaders and Trustees to assess their own organization’s position and readiness for the new post ACA World.

Punch Above Your Weight Class: Thriving as a Community Hospital in a Super-Sized World

How can independent or smaller community hospitals thrive in the new world that is increasingly dominated by large systems, large insurance companies and large suppliers? This session inspires community hospital leaders and trustees to understand their unique value proposition in today’s market and how to innovate and partner to ensure their success.

You’re Married and You Didn’t Know it: How to Make Physician Relationships Work

Hospital-physician integration and collaboration is increasingly required in the world of pay for performance. This talk discusses the why’s of physician collaboration and integration, with a practical bent toward how to improve typically challenging situations.

System Affiliations: How and Why You Might Want to Hook Up

Community hospital independence is increasingly difficult to maintain in a world with declining reimbursements and growing regulations from healthcare reform. This session highlights the trends of system affiliations, along with practical learnings on the what, why and how of approaching an affiliation decision. It offers practical insight to these deals and gives CEOs and boards a set of steps to take to ensure success in their evaluation process.

The Top Ten Things Every Trustee Needs to Understand About Healthcare

Hospital Trustees often enter healthcare and require considerable time to understand the complexity and nuances of the industry. This session provides a fast track set of understandings that Trustees must understand about healthcare and its differences from other industries. It provides tips for Trustees to navigate the challenges they will experience in the boardroom as they enter the brave world of healthcare.

Guiding From the Top: Now That I’m A Hospital Trustee, What Do I Do?

Whether a new or seasoned trustee, all hospital board members need to understand the keys roles and responsibilities of hospital or health system Trustees. This session explains the key functions of the board, the individual trustees roles and how to work effectively. It provides insight to typical Board challenges and tips for all trustees to improve their performance.

How To Keep Patients In Town: Tips for Community Hospitals

For most community or rural based hospitals, a key strategic challenge is keeping patients in town for care. This session focuses on the key elements that drive improvement in a hospital’s “in-town” market share and provides a model to assess current opportunities and improve preference and usage of the local hospital.