AHA-SOLUTIONS

AHA Solutions Signature Learning Series Events


Tuesday, November 2
WEBINAR: Helping Participants Achieve a Funded Retirement

1 - 2pm Eastern; 12 noon - 1pm Central; 10 - 11am Pacific
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This session will cover specific steps to take to help participants save and invest for and throughout retirement. Recommendations will be supported by brand new data from Retirement Plan Trends in Today’s Healthcare Market—2010. You will learn how to benchmark your organization’s retirement plans and understand current market trends.


Wednesday, November 3
WEBINAR: Achieving Sustainable Hospital-Physician Integration, featuring The Christ Hospital
1 - 2pm Eastern; 12 noon - 1pm Central; 10 - 11am Pacific
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Integrated hospital-physician arrangements, which align clinical and financial interests, are critical to the future success of health care providers. The medical staff model currently in place in many hospitals and health systems may not be up to the task. New structures are needed to achieve and sustain the level of physician integration required to fulfill the objectives of care management. The Christ Hospital (Cincinnati, OH) and Kaufman Hall will review the integration models that are emerging and provide guidance on how to evaluate them based on market advantages, capital requirements, and operating impact.


Wednesday, November 10
WEBINAR: Information Protection Framework: Building a Scalable Security Infrastructure for Health Care Reform and Beyond
1 - 2pm Eastern; 12 noon - 1pm Central; 10 - 11am Pacific
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Can your existing information protection infrastructure evolve and modernize with the move to Health Information Exchange (HIE) and other health care changes? In this webinar, you will understand the need for an information protection strategy/framework and how it should incorporate a broad set of protection requirements including specific internal security and privacy requirements, risks to the business, applicable compliance requirements, and industry standards.


Thursday, November 11
WEBINAR: Creative Funding for a Safe Patient Handling Program to Reduce Workers' Compensation Costs
featuring Medical Center of Central Georgia
1 - 2pm Eastern; 12 noon - 1pm Central; 10 - 11am Pacific
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Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG) will present the steps taken to generate a grant from their Captive Insurance program that provided funding for the implementation of an enterprise-wide Safe Patient Handling (SPH) and Movement program. By finding an innovative way to fund their SPH program, LiftSavers, MCCG has been able to sustain a cost-neutral SPH program which dramatically reduced workers’ comp costs, almost eliminated patient falls related to worker involvement, diminished staff sick days, and increased staff satisfaction


Tuesday, November 16
WEBINAR: The Sustainable Health Care Facility: Caring for Your Patients, the Environment, and the Bottom Line 
1 - 2pm Eastern; 12 noon - 1pm Central; 10 - 11am Pacific 
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Are you taking steps to make your hospital more sustainable - environmentally, financially and operationally? Have you considered a more holistic approach to what you throw away every day? Hear firsthand how City of Hope, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, CA, is using an integrated, partnership approach to more effectively manage more than 20 different types of waste streams.


UPCOMING HEALTH CARE LEADER ROUNDTABLES. Participate in regional, peer idea exchanges among hospital leaders to discuss sustainable, organizational performance improvement initiatives. 

With the progression of health care reform; hospital leaders are assessing current organizational processes to gauge their level of preparedness for known and unknown changes lying ahead. 
As a leader, it is a challenge of change; how can you create real, new opportunities for performance improvement while providing higher quality care at a lower cost?

Leading hospitals and industry experts will present proven organizational initiatives to help you overcome some of today’s top challenges in healthcare.

November 17 & 18
Newport Beach Fairmont - Newport Beach, CA
8:00 am - 3:30 pm Pacific
Nov. 17 roundtable geared for patient flow leaders!
Nov. 18 roundtable geared for finance leaders!

December 2
Hyatt Regency Austin - Austin, TX
8:00 am - 3:30 pm Central
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For more information, please contact Leala Avdich at 312-895-2511 or email her at lavdich@aha.org.


The AHA Solutions Signature Learning Series, a member-service of the American Hospital Association, provides outstanding educational events, at which we bring together hospital executives facing similar challenges along with thought leaders from AHA endorsed partners and industry experts. Through live convening events, webinars, and podcasts, the Signature Learning Series focuses on providing valuable education to AHA member hospitals and offering opportunities to share industry leading ideas and innovative solutions.

Whether attending or presenting at an AHA Solutions Signature Learning Series event, you can be assured you will walk away with best practices in hand, learn proven strategies for improvement from your peers and industry experts, hear of innovative potential solutions to your biggest challenges, and develop invaluable new peer relationships. AHA Solutions Signature Learning Series is exclusively offered to hospital personnel only.

If you have trouble registering, please call 1 (800) 242-4677 or email: solutions@aha.org
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