Barry S. Bader, President, Bader & Associates
Given the intense focus on board performance, accountability, and transparency, it is now more important than ever for board members to understand their fiduciary duties and core responsibilities. This session provides an update on those topics and explores recent research from The Governance Institute on recommended best practices for boards.

William C. McGinly, Ph.D., CAE, President & CEO, Association for Healthcare Philanthropy
James A. Rice, Ph.D., FACHE, Vice Chairman, The Governance Institute
Strategic visioning brings new tools for engaging and leveraging hospital philanthropy in these challenging times. This interactive session will address the value of collaboration between the foundation board, governing board, medical staff, and administration.

Brian J. Silverstein, M.D., Senior Vice President, The Camden Group
Economic forces and practice changes are leading to a new wave of physician employment—looking for ways to align with independent physicians to drive quality outcomes, improve care efficiency, and ensure viability in a changing environment. Understand emerging trends and collaboration models, including clinical integration, for securing your physician workforce today and tomorrow.

Richard Chait, Ph.D., Research Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
The current times demand effective governance and despite the best intentions, boards tend to deliver less. Explore changes in mind set and mechanics to enable boards to provide the leadership and stewardship necessary to advance the organization's vision and mission.

 

 

Marian C. Jennings, M.B.A., President, M. Jennings Consulting, Inc.
What will healthcare look like in five years? In 10 years? How will we be paid? What will we be paid for? Ms. Jennings will offer practical approaches to long-term capital investment to further your organization’s mission while ensuring its financial integrity.

Marian C. Jennings, M.B.A.
Private plans. Public plans. Medicare reform. State-led reform initiatives that would move away from fee-for-service medicine. This interactive session will examine the economics and politics behind a potential payment revolution and the likely impact on hospitals.

Holly H. Duncan, CFRE, President & CEO, Morton Plant Mease Foundation
Governing boards, CEOs, and management teams are demanding dramatically stronger fundraising results, accountability, and transparency. In this session, learn to create a culture of philanthropy with support from these groups.

Barry S. Bader
Without a core group of economically and clinically aligned physicians, hospitals will be hard-pressed to improve efficiency, earn pay-forperformance incentives, and match tightly integrated competitors. Drawing on a white paper from The Governance Institute, this presentation explains how to build trust and create a customized, multi-pronged alignment strategy for your physicians.

Nathan S. Kaufman, Managing Director, Kaufman Strategic Advisors
Under healthcare reform, Medicare reimbursement per unit of service will not keep pace with cost inflation and may actually be reduced. Traditional means of subsidizing the under-funding will not be sufficient to achieve optimal performance in the future. Hospitals and physicians must collaborate in new ways through employment and clinical integration to provide more and better care at lower cost.

Nathan S. Kaufman
Mr. Kaufman will discuss critical success factors for successful managed care negotiations—specific steps, financial modeling, appropriate targets, and planning for term. Best practices for employing physicians will be delineated including organizational structure, compensation, and other key elements. Learn pros and cons of physician engagement tactics including directorships, joint ventures, and ED call pay.

Brian J. Silverstein, M.D.
Americans, who once inherently believed their local hospital and physician provided the highest “quality” of care, are becoming increasingly skeptical. Gain an appreciation for trends in healthcare reform, quality, cost-effectiveness, and price transparency. Learn practical approaches for engaging consumers by creating a more lucid understanding of quality and price.

Barry S. Bader
Not-for-profit organizations face unprecedented demands for transparency. In order to adopt a proactive public communications strategy, boards need to understand the information entering the public domain from their organization’s community benefit and conflict of interest disclosures on the new IRS Form 990 to quality scores and hospital prices on websites for choice-conscious consumers.

Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The mission of a healthcare organization is the provision of quality care to its patients. Boards have fiduciary and legal duties to oversee quality of care delivered by the institution. The session will discuss systemic processes ensuring boards are accurately informed about quality and safety issues, and potential consequences of a board’s failure to exercise reasonable oversight on quality issues.

Robin Locke Nagele, Esq., Partner, Health Law Group, Post & Schell, P.C.
Government prosecutors and private litigants are seeking to hold individual board members responsible for significant failures to comply with their compliance and oversight duties. This session will discuss D&O liability flashpoints, identify rapidly evolving board-centric oversight duties and responsibilities, and provide directors and officers with specific operational "best practices" to avoid liability.

Kent Bottles, M.D., President, Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
Dr. Bottles will discuss how the disruptive technology of social media is challenging the business model of the general hospital. He will describe how hospitals are using YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook to connect with their patients and improve their brand.

Robin Locke Nagele, Esq.
The Joint Commission’s Proposed Replacement for Standard MS.01.01.01 addresses medical staff "self-governance;" the medical staff's "accountability" to the governing body; and the governing body's "ultimate responsibility" for the quality and safety of care at the hospital. This session will explain the potentially adverse, operational ramifications on hospitals' abilities to define, measure, and improve performance; and detail approaches medical staff, management, and boards can implement to "work around" the Replacement Standard.

James DeLauro, Ph.D., Principal, DeLauro & Associates
CEOs, hospital board trustees, and foundation board trustees have varying roles in identifying, cultivating, and stewarding donors. Learn how to incorporate stewardship tools at the leadership level.

James DeLauro, Ph.D. & William C. McGinly, Ph.D., CAE
High-performing boards employ common goals, an efficient game plan, and effective use of skills at all levels. Learn how CEOs, trustees, and board members can bring all these together to increase philanthropic results.

Kent Bottles, M.D.
Dr. Bottles will discuss the impact of social networks, cell phones, and augmented reality on the provider–patient relationship. Empowered patients who aggregate on sites such as “PatientsLikeMe” present challenges for all providers. Learn what hospitals and providers need to do to stay current and not fall behind.

Erminia M. Guarneri, M.D., FACC, Medical Director & Founder, Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine
Dr. Guarneri will explore the rising trend of integrative medicine throughout the country and address the role of integrative medicine as a potential solution to the country's healthcare crisis.