Surgical Services Summit
Improving Quality, Patient Experience and Financial Performance
Standardized Practice…Cost per Case Strategies…Value-Based Reimbursements…CMS Performance Measures
As we know too well, managing the surgical suite is not what it once was. We are past the days of simply worrying about on-time starts and scheduling challenges. Today, facing the impact of declining reimbursements, reductions in elective surgeries, and penalties tied to quality, perioperative leaders are pivoting to new strategies that will enable them to manage better under LEAN principles and consistent standards of practice. In addition, top imperatives, including safety, reducing errors, preventing readmissions and ensuring each patient has a positive surgical experience, must be addressed in order to thrive in the era of value-based care.
The Surgical Services Summit will address challenges, trends and issues facing professionals called on to manage the business of the surgical suite and the care for patients entering their facility.
At the Summit, the following topics will be discussed
- Reducing cost per case
- Standardization of practice
- Improving Patient experience--CMS quality measures/quality impact
- Reimbursement sustainability
- Joint Commission and issues surrounding accreditation compliance
- How to Determine Return on investment and margins
- How to uncover new business opportunities in an environment where elective surgeries have decreased
- Lean processes to streamline and improve efficiencies
- Management and leadership strategies
- Recruitment strategies, retention and grooming new leaders for management/succession planning
- ICD-10 transition and impact on financial status of surgical services
- Surgical outcomes and impact on hospital performance measures
- Collaboration with the surgical team to streamline processes
- Infection prevention; sterilization processes
- Branding and marketing of best practices to the community