A Senior Leader’s Guide to World-Class Performance Improvement Six-Part Webinar Series


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    Are your efforts keeping pace with required rate of change?

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    Are you achieving tangible improvements of 1-3% in operating margin every 100 days?

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    Do you need to reduce the barriers to change and accelerate results?

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Learn Proven Strategies from the Experts on Accelerating your Performance Improvement Efforts and Achieving Strategic Gains in Performance and Operating Margins.


Caldwell Butler & Associates, the nation’s thought leader in helping healthcare organizations drive change to achieve millions in sustainable margin improvement, is hosting a six-part webinar series that can make these results a reality for your organization. Don’t miss this opportunity to leverage key takeaways and tools for transforming your current processes and your bottom line.

If your organization is planning for the decline in reimbursement rates (Industry Experts are projecting a 15% decline – are you ready?), facing rising costs, concerned over value-based care, physician engagement and integration, or simply improving patient experience, you need to attend this webinar series.


Get direct access to action-oriented methods and techniques based on CBA’s ACHE-sponsored national research of top performers, margin improvements, accountability models and culture.


Use these approaches to:


  • Improve processes and margins by as much as 1-3% of your annualized operating expenses – every 100 days
  • Ensure methods to produce tangible ROI find their way into the budget
  • Drive real and sustainable change in all areas of operations
  • Instill ownership and increase speed to implementation with CBA’s proven accountability structure
  • Identify high impact opportunity areas frequently overlooked
  • Build the war chest necessary to thrive under value-based care
  • Get results from Lean Six Sigma initiatives
  • Increase the sense of urgency in your organization
  • Create structures for improving inter-department collaboration
  • Develop a culture with a bias for action

Who Should Attend?

  • CEOs
  • COOs
  • CFOs
  • CMOs
  • CNOs
  • Healthcare Executive Leaders
  • Performance Improvement Professionals

Earn one contact hour of continuing education category II credit toward ACHE credential renewal for each webinar you attend – Earn up to six CATEGORY II credits total!


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Webinar Session Information

March 17, 2015 2:00 pm CENTRAL

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Speakers: 


Chip Caldwell, FACHE,  Chairman – Caldwell Butler and Associates

Greg Butler,  President – Caldwell Butler and Associates

This session will focus on:

  • The non-delegable roles of executives in leading Transformational Initiatives
  • Why focusing on structure over culture delivers better results, and how structure drives culture
  • The power of action targets for creating sustainable change
  • How an effective accountability system can drive change and deliver impactful results in any strategic focus area
  • 1-3% in margin improvement from operating expenses while improving quality every 100 days
  • Increasing speed to implementation and creating a culture with a bias to act
  • Effectively engaging key stakeholders with action plans that all directly affect the bottom line
  • Developing internal talent through the LEAP structure
  • Engaging all leaders in organizational change
March 24, 2015 2:00 pm CENTRAL 
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Speakers:


Chip Caldwell, FACHE,  Chairman – Caldwell Butler and Associates

Nancy Dodson,  Managing Partner – Caldwell Butler and Associates

Karen Poole,  Vice President and Chief Operating Officer – Boca Raton Regional



This session will focus on:
  • Methods for improving strategic focus
  • Strategic operational levers and case studies
    • Reducing center-level waste equal to 1.5 to 3 percent of each department’s budget every 100 days
    • Next Gen techniques to reduce staffing waste (vs. Last Gen benchmarking & productivity systems)
    • Improving patient throughput equal to one more unit of service for each department (vs. just nursing)
    • Clinical Financial Value Stream
    • Decreasing market leakage
    • Physician engagement and achieving meaningful clinical practice change vs. just observers
  • How to Ensure ROI
  • Integrating your existing initiatives into a comprehensive transformational management system
March 31, 2015 2:00 pm CENTRAL
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Speakers:


Chip Caldwell,  FACHE, Chairman – Caldwell Butler and Associates

Rich Priore, ScD, FACHE, FACMPE,  Managing Principal – Caldwell Butler and Associates

This session will focus on how to: 
  • Understand and effectively mitigate financial impacts of the “Perfect Storm” of continued revenue pressure from reduced government and commercial insurance payments and increased cost reduction efforts in response to diminishing margins and payer expectations.
  • Understand and discuss specific and applicable elements of success from a recent comprehensive $70M turnaround; including:
    • Prioritizing high-dollar impact areas
    • Focusing on execution (80%)
    • Eliminating barriers to success
    • Emphasizing results
    • Promoting senior-leader accountability
    • Coordinating organization-wide efforts
    • Planning for continuity and long-term sustainability
  • Understand frequently overlooked high impact margin improvement tactics with significant and sustainable impact on the organizational bottom line; including:
    • Pay policies and practice review
    • Open position review
    • Premium pay use
    • GPO market basket optimization
    • Purchased services agreements
    • Physician preference items and demand matching
April 7, 2015 2:00 pm CENTRAL

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Speakers:
Chip Caldwell,  FACHE, Chairman – Caldwell Butler and Associates
This session will focus on how to:

  • Why benchmarking and productivity systems alone, can’t yield strategic change and results
  • Margin Improvement
  • Building staff support and acceptance for necessary labor changes
  • How to improve through-put
  • The need for a quality-based approach to achieve staff buy-in and support for labor changes
  • Introduction to In-Quality Staffing (IQS) concepts
  • Overview of real life application: Achieving rapid variance response to sustain gains in labor productivity  
  • Review Case Study of an organization who has successfully optimized labor with a quality driven approach
  • Rapid Response
April 14, 2015 2:00 pm CENTRAL
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Speakers:


Greg Butler,  President – Caldwell Butler and Associates

Kevin Sprecher,  Managing Partner – Caldwell Butler and Associates 
This session will focus on:

  • The Human Factor: Understanding why people resist change
  • How to make change safer than the status quo
  • Five obstacles that block your path to success and how these are costing you success
  • How to ensure your PI initiatives achieve their full potential
  • 28 Proven methods for coaching people through change
April 21, 2015 2:00 pm CENTRAL
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Speakers:
Rich Priore, ScD, FACHE, FACMPE,  Managing Principal – Caldwell Butler and Associates

This session will focus on:

  • Understand and effectively mitigate the current operating environment challenges impacting improved physician-hospital alignment and clinical integration; including:
    • Continued revenue pressure from reduced government and commercial insurance payments
    • Increased cost reduction efforts in response to diminishing margins and payer expectations
    • Patient volumes shifting to outpatient setting, meaning less revenue
    • Need for increased provider integration and coordination as cost and quality measurements become more popular in commercial and mandated in government models
    • CMS moving quickly from volume-based reimbursement (fee for service to value, linking quality and payment
  • Compare and evaluate the common physician-hospital alignment models to determine potential financial exposure in accordance with the organization’s strategic goals.
  • Understand effective models for increasing physician alignment and clinical integration while improving clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, access, and efficiency by engaging and supporting providers as ‘co-managers’.
  • Assess and understand how to close the current gap between the hospital’s physician-hospital alignment needs and financial performance.
  • Understand and leverage the benefits of clinical co-management to both physicians and the hospital

FAQs

  1. What is the cost for the 6-Part Webinar Series?
    • The cost is $995 for the first person from your organization and then $795 for any additional people from your organization that you would like to register for the 6-Part Webinar Series.  You will be able to attend the live sessions and access to all the webinars OnDemand
  2. If I miss one of the webinars, can I see it later?
    • Yes- all the webinars are being recorded and you will be given access to view all the webinars OnDemand
  3. Do I have to purchase the entire series?  Or can I just register for each individual webinar?
    • You will need to purchase the 6-Part Series
  4. How do I register?
    • Click on the “Register for the series now” button and it will take you to the registration page.
  5. What equipment do I need to have to participate?
    • You will need a computer to participate.
  6. Do I get CEU credits?
    • Yes – you will earn one contact hour of continuing education category II credit toward ACHE credential renewal for each webinar you attend – Earn up to six CATEGORY II credits total!

Meet the Speakers

Chip Caldwell, FACHE
Chairman


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Greg Butler
President



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Nancy Dodson
Managing Partner



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Richard Priore, ScD, FACHE, FACMPE
Managing Principal

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Kevin Sprecher, RN
Managing
Partner


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Karen Poole
VP and COO – Boca Raton Regional

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