The Massachusetts Hospital Association and the New England Society for Healthcare Strategy presents:
Stories from the Front Lines: Strategies for Hospital Physician Engagement & Leadership Development

Friday, March 19, 2010
9:00 am - 2:30 pm

With healthcare payment reform efforts intensifying, professional development of the medical staff within hospitals has never been more critical. Effective physician leaders can benefit hospitals in many ways: providing enhanced clinical governance for better quality/safety outcomes; ensuring bottom line growth from clinical process improvement that can be hardwired into operational performance gains; and improving morale among nurses and allied health professionals throughout the organization.

Join us at this comprehensive program where we’ll hear from the Advisory Board Company, a leading provider of performance improvement services to the healthcare and education sectors, on their nationwide project on this topic. We’ll also hear from the chief medical officer of McLeod Health System in South Carolina, which has a robust physician development program in place. Our program will conclude with an in-depth discussion among a group of Massachusetts physician leaders on the successes and challenges they have experienced while creating solid leadership programs for physicians in their organizations.

9:00 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks
MHA & NESHS Designees

9:05 AM Physician-Led Best Practices for Managing Medical Staff Quality & Financial Performance Ravi Chopra, M.D., Director, Advisory Board Co.

10:15 AM NETWORKING BREAK

10:45 AM Attracting Private Practice Physicians into
Leadership Roles at Your Hospital: A Case Study
Presented by McLeod Health System
Alva Whitehead, M.D., V.P., Medical Services
McLeod Health System, South Carolina

12:00 PM NETWORKING LUNCHEON

1:00 PM Stories from the Front Lines: Massachusetts CMO’s Discuss Their Organizations’ Leadership
Development Strategies

Moderator: Christine Schuster, R.N., President & CEO, Emerson Hospital

Panelists: Richard Iseke, M.D., V.P., Medical Affairs & CMO, Winchester Hospital
Kenneth Sands, M.D., Sr. V.P., Healthcare Quality,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Eugene McMahon, M.D., MBA, FCAP, Sr. V.P. &
Chief Medical Officer, Southcoast Hospitals Group

2:30 PM ADJOURN




Location:
The Conference Center at Waltham Woods, 860 Winter Street,
Waltham, MA

Investment:
$199 MHA & NESHS Member Rate
$299 Non-Member Rate

Registration for this event is through MHA. For more information or to register go to:

http://www.mhalink.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&TEMPLATE=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=9914

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