CEO Healthcare Reform Summit III

Redesigning Care Delivery:
Leading Continuous Improvement to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs

November 10-11, 2011 Ritz-Carlton Buckhead Atlanta, GA - Register Now!

Are you constantly searching for ways to improve quality, lower cost and improve employee morale all at the same time? It is possible!

Attend VHA Georgia’s fall CEO Health Reform Summit and learn from others like Thedacare, Group Health of Puget Sound, Virginia Mason, Mercy Hospital in Northern Iowa and more, and how they transformed their organizations into a culture of continuous improvement and are now achieving all three goals. Take away practical information and tools so that you can do it too!

Learning Objectives

• Learn and experience key Toyota lean principals and tools
• Differentiate improvement vs. traditional management systems
• Discuss physician engagement strategies to support building a culture of continuous improvement
• List key behaviors senior leaders need to do differently to lead transformational change
• Experience A3 Thinking tool and develop your organization’s state existing conditions and problem statement

Who Should Attend?

• Chief Executive Officers
• Chief Operational Officers
• Chief Financial Officers
• Chief Medical Officers
• Chief Nursing Officers
• Key Physician Leaders
• Key Performance Improvement leaders
• Key board members

Faculty

John Toussaint, MD

CEO Emeritus of ThedaCare
CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value

The Center’s mission is to create a healthcare market place that rewards value. We are accomplishing this by working with leaders in the provider, employer, insurer, and government communities to create transparency of healthcare performance, redesigned care which is measurably less wasteful with fewer errors, and payment systems that reward patient value creation.

Dr. Toussaint served as president and Chief Executive Officer of ThedaCare Inc. from March 2000 until April 2008. During his tenure at ThedaCare, he introduced the ThedaCare Improvement System which is the Toyota production system applied to healthcare and is also known as lean.

The continuous improvement journey at ThedaCare has led to such results as zero medication reconciliation errors for more than three years in a row in addition to dramatically improved staff productivity and satisfaction.

Millions of dollars of waste reduction have resulted in ThedaCare consistently being one of the lowest priced health care organizations in Wisconsin at the same time more than doubling operating income over 5 years. Dr. Toussaint will facilitate this two-day interactive summit and will also bring examples of other organizations that have replicated this model with success in their organization.

Cost to attend is $6,800 for up to eight people. Additional attendees are $599 each.

Registration deadline is Friday, October 21, 2011
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