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| 6:15 am–7:30 am |
6:15 am–7:30 am
Wellness Morning
Sponsored by United Surgical Partners International
Get up and get moving! Regular athletes and first-timers alike are welcome to join us for the ASCA HIIT training workout or a yoga program. Either way, this is a great way to start your Friday feeling limber.
This event is sponsored by United Surgical Partners
Location: Upper Concourse
6:15 am–6:30 am – Registration/Check In 6:30 am–7:15 am – HIIT Training Workout/Yoga 7:15 am–7:30 am – Wellness Breakfast Bites
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| 7:30 am–8:30 am |
7:30 am–8:30 am
Attendee Breakfast
Join your fellow attendees for a hearty breakfast including pastries, coffee, juices and eggs. Breakfast will be served on both the main and lower level concourse.
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| 8:30 am–10:00 am |
8:30 am–10:00 am
Tenant Improvement vs. Ground-up Construction and ICRA Compliance
Whether you’re making tenant improvements by remodeling your facility or embarking on a ground-up construction project, this session is for you. Learn how to select the best construction team, recognize the role of the state health department, consider design parameters and check systems capacities. Discuss projection construction and other development costs and learn how to anticipate and solve common mistakes. Find out how to conduct a construction infection control risk assessment (ICRA) in cooperation with the construction team to ensure your new or improved facility meets all requirements.
AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues
IPCH Content Area:
Infection Prevention Strategies
Faculty:
Medical and Legal Marijuana
With all but a handful of states now allowing legal use of some form of cannabis, chances are someone on your staff or some percentage of your patients will have been exposed recently. As laws governing the use of cannabis continue to change throughout the US, find out what you need to know to address the new implications of cannabis in your surgery center, including how to manage your employees, patient consents and policies that will help you keep everyone in your ASC safe.
AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues
Faculty:
Use Financial Benchmarking to Support Your ASC’s Financial and Operational Health
Discuss the financial benchmarks successful ASC managers rely on, where to get them and how to use them effectively to improve your operations and the financial well-being of your center.
AEU Content Area:
Financial
Faculty:
Develop an Effective ASC Compliance Plan
The session will cover the development and implementation of an effective and comprehensive compliance program.
AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues
Faculty:
Total Joint Replacement in the ASC
Join this session to learn how to build a successful total joint arthroplasty program at your center. Discuss the overall landscape of total joint arthroplasty as well as the benefits to moving this service line to an ambulatory setting. Review keys to building a safe and vibrant program that includes total knee, total hip, total shoulder and total ankle arthroplasty. Consider patient selection, capital needs, and patient and staff education, and receive tips on how to partner with physical therapy and other adjunct services. Gain insight into the payer landscape and discuss strategies for maximizing reimbursement. Identify outcome monitoring tools that you can employ in your total joint arthroplasty program.
AEU Content Area:
Delivery of Patient Care
Faculty:
ASC Capabilities & The Power of Partnership
The DePuy Synthes ASC team is excited to share the possibilities of what an effective partnership looks like in the ASC site of care.
AEU Content Area:
N/A
Faculty:
Ryan Van Puffelen
Brandt Sanders
Barbara Miller
Fritz Cargould
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| 10:00 am–11:00 am |
10:00 am–11:00 am
Exhibit Hall Morning Break
Join us in the exhibit hall for your last chance to visit with the exhibitors. Morning break will include coffee, teas and sodas.
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| 11:00 am–12:00 pm |
11:00 am–12:00 pm
Active Shooter Preparedness and Response
Make sure you have the skills and knowledge you need to ensure your ASC is prepared in the event of an active shooter at your facility and empower your leadership to stop these events before they happen. Topics covered will include:
- tips for recognizing signs of potential workplace violence,
- mitigation strategies,
- profile of the active shooter,
- response to the active shooter and other workplace violence,
- training for an active shooter situation, and
- creating an emergency action plan.
AEU Content Area:
Delivery of Patient Care
Faculty:
Life Safety Code from an Electrical Standpoint
Discover the most common issues found with electrical panels, generators, and electrical devices in healthcare facilities during Life Safety Code surveys. Learn how to avoid similar concerns in your own facility.
AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues
Faculty:
Improve Patient Satisfaction in your ASC
Although patients follow their physicians to the facilities where they practice, like all consumers, they have expectations about what they will experience. Talk about what patients expect at your ASC and get tools to enhance their perception of the care they receive every step of the way.
AEU Content Area:
Quality Management
Faculty:
Building a Successful Robotic Program at Your ASC
Robotic surgery is the new outpatient frontier—so how do you determine if it’s a good fit for your facility? Join this session to learn how to build and execute a successful robotic program in the ASC setting. It takes the collaboration of a strong clinical team and their administrative partners to transform a robotic program from a vision into reality. Discuss how to create a healthy ROI, surgeon alignment, time management, cost control, measuring clinical outcomes and more during this exciting session.
AEU Content Area:
Delivery of Patient Care
Faculty:
Manage Digital Distractions in the OR; Refocus on Patient-Centered Care
This era of personal electronic devices and an explosion in social media might be impacting our patients and work environment in negative ways. Join this session to explore ways we can work together in the surgical suite to mediate the negative effects of electronic distractions. Also discuss the legal issues that electronic distractions bring to the practice of medicine and review several legal cases to see how this technology impacts both malpractice concerns and government regulatory policy. By understanding the addictive nature of the technology, we can better self-regulate our behavior and ensure patients are getting our safest and best care. Leave this session with proven strategies your ASC can use to improve its ability to address this distractive problem.
AEU Content Area:
Delivery of Patient Care
Faculty:
Surgery Center Joint Ventures: Maintaining Independence through Appropriate Partnership Creation
Most independent surgery centers and their physicians and executives will consider a strategic transaction at some point. Whether it is partnering with a hospital, a national or regional ASC firm, a private equity firm or a combination of these, join this session to find out:
- what goes into the process,
- what you will need to consider,
- how to engage with prospective buyers,
- how you can maintain the independent characteristics of your organization,
- the benefits from the economies of scale that a partner can bring,
- how to prepare for and manage this time-consuming and complex process,
- how to mitigate any risk and determine whether a strategic transaction and partnership is right for you, and
- the importance and value of retaining existing staff and infrastructure.
This session does not provide continuing education credits.
Faculty:
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| 12:00 pm–1:20 pm |
12:00 pm–1:20 pm
ASC Celebration Luncheon
Sponsored by HealthTrust/AdvantageTrust
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| 1:30 pm–2:45 pm |
1:30 pm–2:45 pm
In Search of Excellence—Clinical Benchmarking
ASCs have a solid reputation of providing top-quality, safe care at an affordable price. As a leader, committed to meeting and exceeding that standard, you can rely on clinical benchmarking to help you foster continuous improvement and validate your center’s commitment to ensuring the best for your patients. Focus on the value of clinical benchmarking, from an internal and external perspective, and get practical insights into the benchmarking measures and applications you can rely on as you lead your center in its quest for excellence.
AEU Content Area:
Quality Management
Faculty:
Maximize the Benefits of Your Multi-Generational Workforce
Today’s workforce, and maybe your ASC, relies on at least four generations. With differences in ages come differences in perspectives around work, family, identity, communication style and more. Done well, generationally diverse teams can improve knowledge transfer, succession planning, mentoring, safety and patient service. Left unaddressed, generational differences can lead to conflict, resentment, isolation and even bullying. It is up to you and other leaders in your ASC to show your team how to recognize and embrace generational differences and avoid clashes in values and beliefs. This session will discuss the key characteristics of each generation, intersectionality and how to identify your own unconscious bias. Participants will actively workshop techniques for collaboration, safe sharing, empathy and making people feel valued.
AEU Content Area:
Human Resources
Faculty:
GI Reprocessing Updates and Infection Prevention Scenarios
Discuss reprocessing guidance updates and scenarios of endoscope reprocessing failures that could happen in a GI setting. Practice putting it all together and troubleshooting common problems that may arise in your facility—and discuss strategies you can implement to prevent these issues from happening in the first place
AEU Content Area:
Delivery of Patient Care
IPCH Content Area:
Instrument/Equipment Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization
Faculty:
Avoid the Most Frequently Cited Life Safety Code Deficiencies
Identify the deficiencies that are discovered most often during Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and Joint Commission Life Safety Code surveys and learn how to mitigate them.
AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues
Faculty:
Use Your Electronic Health Record to Help You Pass Your Next Accreditation Survey
If your ASC is preparing for a survey from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) or one of the accrediting bodies and you have an electronic health record (EHR) system, there's good news: You have a solution that can help you succeed this time and the next. All it takes is knowing what you need to build into your EHR to address the requirements, understanding the policy changes and training staff on how to access and use these components properly. This session will give you the information you need to make sure you are using your EHR effectively to help you pass your survey and ensure ongoing compliance with requirements throughout the year.
AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues
Faculty:
Ultraviolet Equipment for Air and Surface Disinfection
UVC disinfection is a proven technology that has been applied in healthcare environments for many decades. Join this session to gain an understanding of UVC basics and how it affects microorganisms. We will focus on four proven UVC applications that are the most impactful in healthcare settings: upper room UVC air disinfection, fixed mount systems for rapid OR air and surface disinfection, mobile UVC disinfection solutions, and UVC HVAC applications.
This session does not provide continuing education credits.
Faculty:
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| 2:45 pm–3:15 pm |
2:45 pm–3:15 pm
Attendee Afternoon Break
During this break, enjoy some light snacks and drinks to keep you going for the rest of the afternoon.
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| 3:15 pm–4:30 pm |
3:15 pm–4:30 pm
Keep Your ASC Safe: Conducting a Security Risk Assessment
Get an overview of the resources available for conducting a security risk assessment of your ASC. Learn how to using existing tools—such as OSHA 3148 and CAP Index—to address current needs to keep staff and patients safe. Make sure you’re prepared to meet upcoming workplace violence standards and elements of performance for accredited ASCs.
AEU Content Area:
Quality Management
Faculty:
Lessons Learned in Developing and Building a New ASC
Leading an ASC design-build project can be both exhilarating and stressful, but informed decision-making and timely coordination between designers, engineers and vendors done in a well-conceived, efficient manner can lead to success and on-time completion. In this time of extreme construction costs, learn what worked for this ASC clinical operations specialist and what advice she wishes someone would have shared with her before she took on her first project. Project development, equipment planning and efficiency enhancement with design options will be discussed.
AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues
Faculty:
Conversations about Mentoring
Mentors can make the difference in a mentee’s professional growth and impact their organization’s overall success in recruitment and retention. This session will highlight best practices for mentor and mentee partnerships while sharing stories about ways some of today’s most successful leaders were influenced by their mentors during their career. It will also explore the importance of mentor selection, candid conversations, formal and informal mentorship programs, and the value that a strong mentorship can provide in today’s challenging talent acquisition market.
AEU Content Area:
Human Resources
Faculty:
State Advocacy: Developing Relationships with Elected Officials and DOH
This presentation will cover the basics of state-level advocacy. Identify the component parts of advocacy, discuss why state advocacy is important, and find out how you can get involved. Review case studies from recent years of successful advocacy efforts by state ASC associations and ASC administrators.
AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues
Faculty:
Case Costing: Step by Step
Take a deep dive into all aspects of case costing your key procedures so you can negotiate better contracts and boost your bottom line. Start by identifying your center's top cases, then determine the reimbursement by payer. Next, review your labor and billing costs and list examples of expected costs for key supplies frequently used by the physicians who perform those procedures. As a bonus, this session will examine ways to automate your case costing process using your management software so you can streamline the review of your case costs and case margins by payer and physician.
AEU Content Area:
Financial
Faculty:
Leveraging Innovative Technology to Maximize the Patient Experience, Improve Operational Efficiencies and Increase Revenue
Ambulatory Surgery Centers are under increasing scrutiny from governing bodies to provide top-notch patient experiences and satisfaction. The Value Based Purchasing (VBP) program has imposed financial sanctions on underperforming hospital facilities creating financial burdens on already razor-thin profit margins. Although it has not yet been implemented for ASCs, the Affordable Care Act required the establishment of a VBP as well. Fortunately, innovative technology has allowed centers to not only cater to a more discriminating healthcare consumer, but improve patient intake, real-time procedural communication, early recovery after surgery, and management/recovery of poor patient experiences. Learn why ASCs can't afford to overlook the patient experience with evolving compensation models and how centers using health tech are winning.
This session does not provide continuing education credits.
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| 6:30 pm–9:00 pm |
6:30 pm–9:00 pm
Social Event: Off to the Races with a Night at Churchill Downs
Sponsored by nimble solutions
Join us for a night of revelry at the Kentucky Derby Museum, located at the historic Churchill Downs. Take steps through history at the Museum as well as tours of the paddocks at Churchill Downs. Food and drink will be provided, including Derby inspired bites. Buses will depart in front of the convention center (along the 4th and Market Street side) at 6:00 pm and will return to the convention center at various times throughout the evening..
Derby attire is encouraged, so be sure to pack your big hats and dresses!
This event is sponsored by nimble solutions
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