Tomorrow’s Health Care System - Today
February 24, 2012
Xavier University's Cintas Center
The program will be held at Xavier University and also video-conferenced to the following areas:
- Southwest Regional Hospital, Georgetown, Brown County, OH
- Fairfield Medical Center, Lancaster, Fairfield County, OH
- Joint Township Memorial Hospital, St. Mary, Auglaize County, OH
- Lost Creek Care Center, Lima, Allen County, OH
- Wesleyan Senior Center, Elyria, Lorain County, OH
- Mercy Regional Medical Center, Lorain, Lorain County, OH
- Mercer Health, Coldwater, Mercer County, OH
- VA, Lexington, Fayette-Urban County, KY
Conference Goals
Explore the emerging and future goals, objectives and plans for affordable national health care delivery to diverse populations through the implementation of effective care delivery models.
Who Should Come?
This conference will be helpful to health care provider, payer, and supplier executives; physicians; nurse leaders and practitioners. Conference learning objectives are listed below.
Conference Objectives
1. Discuss the Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Model and other Medicare ACO initiatives in the context of broader health care and delivery system reform.
2. Describe the lessons learned during the Pioneer (Innovation Center at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)) and the application of those lessons in planning the work that lies ahead.
3. Discuss the priority areas that CMS and Pioneer ACOs are likely to focus on for shared learning activities in the first year of the Pioneer Model.
4. Describe healthcare partnerships at St. Vincent’s Health System that include Physician Hospital Organizations (PHO) (primary care physicians and specialists), advanced practice nurses, clinical nurse leaders, and other physician extenders that can help create and sustain the change needed for better health outcomes at a reduced cost.
5. Describe a successful implementation of an effective ACO within the nation.
6. Describe the journey of the development and utilization of a Primary Care Medical Home Practice Model throughout the Dartmouth-Hitchcock ACO.
7. Describe the development of supportive data and clinical information systems at Dartmouth-Hitchcock designed to create value for the population it serves.
8. Describe Patient-Centered Medical Home and Future Reimbursement Models from a private insurance perspective.
Conference Schedule & Downloadable Presentations
Featuring national leaders from CMS, ACO Pioneers, the Ascension Health System, and Private Health Insurance
Click on speakers name for biography.
| 7:30 - 8:00 a.m. | Registration and continental breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome |
| 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Pham Director of ACO Programs at CMS (by video conference) |
| 10:00-10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. - Noon |
Dr. Ratcliffe Download Presentation Slides: Designing Optimal Models for the Future |
| Noon - 12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
| 12:45 -1:45 p.m. |
Dr. Van Amerongen |
| 1:45 - 2:00 p.m. | Break |
| 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Barbara Walters |
| 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. |
Panel discussion |
| 4:30 p.m. | Wine and cheese reception |
Questions and Answers will follow each presentation
About the conference
Conference Cost: Free
(all fees paid by funds from the Division of Nursing (DN), Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under grant award #D11HP14614-01-00 and title Nurse Education Practice and Retention (NEPR) for $1,488,825.00 for the budget period 07/01/2009 through 06/30/2012)
Location: Schiff Family Conference Center at Xavier’s Cintas Center, Cincinnati, OH
Registration Deadline: February 17, 2012
Hotel Accommodations: If you are in need of overnight accommodations, the University's Office of Admission has established discounted rates at a variety of local hotels.
CE Credits for Nurses: This continuing education activity will provide 6.75 contact hours. Xavier University School of Nursing (OH-195/12-1-14) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
The Christ Hospital is accredited by the Ohio State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Christ Hospital designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)tm. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
A Reading
The Affordable Care Act: An Opportunity for CNLs to Flourish
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/membership/members-only/presentations/2012/12cnlsummit/Kurtzman.pdf