6:00am |
Location: Along the shore of the Potomac River
Description: ASCA's 5K is a race for all ages and fitness levels! Regular runners and first-timers alike are welcome to join us for the 5K Fun Run/Walk. Whether you’re trying to beat your personal best or walking with friends and co-workers, this is a great way to burn some extra calories during the Annual Meeting.
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7:00am–8:00am |
Location: Potomac & National Harbor Foyers
Description: Start the day off with a breakfast filled with bagels, pastries, fruit and a variety of juices and, of course, a cup of coffee to get you going!
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8:00am–9:00am |
Faculty:
Kara Marshall Newbury
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA)
Location: Potomac C
Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Description: Learn about the latest regulatory developments that impact your ASC’s operations and bottom line. Get an overview of ASCA's regulatory agenda for 2017 and beyond and discuss the ways that ASCA is working for you inside the government agencies that have jurisdiction over your ASC.
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Faculty:
John Goehle, MBA, CASC, CPA
Ambulatory Healthcare Strategies
Location: National Harbor 2/3
Content Area: Financial
Description: Without an effective financial benchmarking program, ASC administrators and owners are missing valuable information about the financial health of their organization. Learn how to develop and manage a meaningful financial benchmarking program at your ASC using available data, including information from ASCA’s benchmarking program.
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Faculty:
Judy Harless, MBA, CASC
Location: National Harbor 4/5
Content Area: Human Resources
Description: Join this "tools you can use" session on staff competencies to review the essential building blocks of developing competencies, look at competencies others are using to meet accreditation standards and discuss the expectations of Medicare and accreditation surveyors when they review your personnel files during a survey. Walk away with practical information on how to format your own competencies and reliable examples you can reference once you return home.
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Faculty:
William Miller, JD
Higgs, Fletcher & Mack LLP
Debra Stinchcomb, RN, BSN, MBA, CASC
Progressive Surgical Solutions
Location: National Harbor 10/11
Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Description: Find out how to minimize adverse outcomes tied to the use of smart phones in your ASC during this dynamic, and collaborative, review of both the clinical and legal issues that can arise when patients/patient representatives, staff and physicians use smart phones in your ASC. Examine scenarios likely to give rise to clinical and legal problems, and previous incidents involving smart phone usage, as you develop your own plan for mitigating risk.
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Faculty:
Martin C. Lowery
OpusVertex International, LLC
Location: Potomac D
Content Area: Human Resources
Emergenetics® is a model that enables our understanding of the power of our personal preferences and if not managed, how they can bias the way we communicate. It is a measurable, proven way to recognize and apply thinking and behavior patterns people use regularly. Emergenetics® offers seven easily recognizable and useful factors that apply to work, communication and interpersonal relationships. In this entertaining and enlightening session, find out how to define and understand the 4 thinking/communicating styles; define and understand the 3 behaviors and their impact on communication; learn of the prevalence of these attributes and how they occur in the population at large; and be able to tailor future communications to be inclusive of all the Emergenetics® elements using a comprehensive checklist.
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9:10am–10:10am |
Faculty:
Monica Wofford, MBA CSP
Contagious Companies
Location: Potomac Ballroom A/B
Description: In leadership, it’s teams that gets things done, but few leaders truly know how to create, maintain and support a thriving team. Knowing how to get others to collaborate, communicate and cooperate is where the best ideas happen and results start to rise. Help Me Understand™ does just that by examining the different ways your team members think. Through emotional intelligence and guidance on how to use it, Help Me Understand™ will reduce your stress and remove much of the office drama. During the session, you will learn to clarify your message, motivate your employees and unite your team so that you can get more done together.
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10:10am–11:10am |
Location: Prince George's Hall C/D/E
Description: Don’t miss out on your last chance to visit the ASC industry’s largest exhibit hall with our morning coffee break.
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11:15am–12:15pm |
Faculty:
William Miller, JD
Higgs, Fletcher & Mack LLP
Debra Stinchcomb, RN, BSN, MBA, CASC
Progressive Surgical Solutions
Location: National Harbor 10/11
Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Description: Avoid litigation involving your ASC by learning to identify and manage the clinical and legal issues surrounding Nursing Scope of Practice and complacent ASC nursing actions. Consider scenarios that can lead to potential clinical and legal adverse outcomes, and take home practical solutions you can implement at your ASC.
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Faculty:
Michelle George, RN, MSN, CASC
Surgical Care Affiliates
Location: Potomac D
Content Area: Quality Management
Description: As your ASC comes under increasing pressure from patients, physicians and payers to demonstrate safety and clinical outcomes, clinical benchmarking can help you respond. Find out how to use this tool effectively to measure performance trends, compare performance against the industry and highlight opportunities for improvement initiatives in your ASC.
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Faculty:
Jeannie David,
Senior Program Management Officer, FDA
Location: Potomac C
Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Description: Hear direct from a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official about the mission of the Drug Shortage Staff at FDA, the history and causes of shortages in the US, the laws and regulations pertaining to shortages and FDA and industry roles in mitigating and preventing shortages.
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Faculty:
Ed Zacharias
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Location: National Harbor 2/3
Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Description: Protect your patients’ privacy and avoid the record-setting financial penalties levied for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violations this past year with this session on HIPAA fundamentals and strategic considerations involved in structuring and managing your ASC’s Business Associate relationships.
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Faculty:
Sandy Berreth, RN, MS, CASC
Administrator, Sansum Clinic Foothills Surgical Center
Location: National Harbor 4/5
Content Area: Human Resources
Description: Find ways to establish a culture of communication at your ASC that supports relationship-based mentoring and coaching and shares knowledge and the wisdom of success with your next generation of leaders. Identify techniques based on the use of one-to-one conversations that will enhance new leaders’ skills, knowledge and work performance and build toward the future of your ASC.
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12:20pm–1:50pm |
Location: Potomac Ballroom A/B
Description: Take a short break from the intensive educational program and enjoy a leisurely sit-down lunch with your colleagues while you help celebrate recent successes in the ASC industry. Along with the networking opportunities you will find at this event, be prepared to be entertained when our featured speaker takes the stage. Invite your friends, colleagues and family members to join in. This part of ASCA’s annual meeting offers something that everyone can enjoy.
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2:00pm–3:00pm |
Faculty:
James Arnold
Drug Enforcement Administration
Location: Potomac C
Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Description: Join this Drug Enforcement Agency official for an in-depth look at the newest regulations, guidance and policies regarding the disposal of controlled substances in your ASC.
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Faculty:
Winborne Macphail,
SCA
Location: National Harbor 4/5
Content Area: Financial
Description: Recruiting physicians to your ASC and maintaining their support has nothing to do with money. A successful physician relations program relies on your creativity, people skills, understanding of the marketplace and willingness to serve stakeholders. Examine the challenges an ophthalmology-driven ASC faced in the highly competitive South Florida market and the strategies that re-engaged physicians in the community and led to a healthy bottom line. Get tips on what worked, what didn’t and how this ASC keeps up the momentum.
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Faculty:
Ann Geier, MS RN, CNOR, CASC
SourceMed
Location: Potomac D
Content Area: Human Resources
Description: When someone moves from a staff position, are they given the tools to succeed in their new role? Many administrators and managers say "No." Focusing on ASC management, discuss the extensive knowledge required to be successful in leadership roles and get go-to resources you can use to educate and support staff in your own ASC. Participants interested in this session might also want to consider attending “Leadership 201” immediately following this presentation.
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Faculty:
Michael Patterson, FACHE
Mississippi Valley Health
Location: National Harbor 2/3
Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Description: Learn how to develop and maintain the clinical operations you need to support an effective total joint replacement program in your ASC. Examine patient selection, patient education, identifying and tracking quality indicators, post-op care, staff education and more during this introductory overview.
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Faculty:
David Shapiro, MD, CASC, CHCQM, CHC, CHPRM, LHRM
Location: National Harbor 10/11
Content Area: Quality Management
Description: Gain a new understanding of some of the physiologic implications of maintaining patients' normothermia throughout the perioperative period and strategies for regulating and monitoring patient temperatures in your ASC. Consider the key concerns that confront your ASC related to gathering and reporting data to Medicare’s ASC Quality Reporting Program (QRP).
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3:00pm–3:10pm |
Location: Foyer
Description: Take a quick break between sessions to enjoy a little snack or a drink before heading back to the education sessions.
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3:10pm–4:10pm |
Faculty:
Lee Eaves
Agape Tactical
Location: Potomac C
Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Description: Hear how to prepare for and respond to the unpredictable, quickly evolving chaos likely to accompany an active shooter incident in your ASC. Learn how anyone can play an integral role in mitigating the impacts of an active shooter incident using a "whole community" preparedness approach and products, tools and resources designed to help.
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Faculty:
Leana McGuire, BS, RN
USPI
Location: National Harbor 10/11
Content Area: Human Resources
Description: Today’s multi-generational workforce comes with its challenges. Discuss the four main generations in the workforce today, compare experiences and events, compare world perceptions, discuss employee retention approaches and shed some light on why we behave the way we do. It's through the understanding of others that we understand ourselves.
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Faculty:
Ann Geier, MS RN, CNOR, CASC
SourceMed
Location: Potomac D
Content Area: Human Resources
Description: Building on the Leadership 101 session offered immediately preceding this presentation, focus on four areas that many administrators say they would like to know more about. Get access to sources of best practices and web sites you can use to enhance your knowledge in these key areas.
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Faculty:
Michael Patterson, FACHE
Mississippi Valley Health
Location: National Harbor 2/3
Content Area: Financial
Description: Learn how to develop and maintain the business operations you need to support an effective total joint replacement program in your ASC. Examine payer engagement, implant vendor strategies, physical layout, growing and marketing a total joint replacement program, staff education and more during this introductory overview.
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Faculty:
Ashley Wise, MBA
USPI
Location: National Harbor 4/5
Content Area: Financial
Description: As the number and variety of IT vendors offering products to ASCs continues its rapid growth, get help tackling the hard decisions your ASC needs to make about how to prioritize your investments, protect your data and make sure your systems work together. Explore basic strategies and get tools that can help you evaluate vendors, negotiate contracts and develop a successful implementation plan.
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4:20pm–5:20pm |
Faculty:
Michael Galvin
USPI
Lori Greiser, BSN, RN, CNOR
The Christ Hospital Spine Surgery Center
Location: Potomac D
Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Description: Implement a successful 23-hour stay program that increases your ASC’s capacity and bottom line with these lessons learned in implementing a model ASC spine surgery program. Prepare to meet the Medicare certification and accreditation challenges you will encounter and get guidance on appropriate case selection, finding the right staffing model, planning for all of the associated costs, and the additional clinical resources you need to sustain a successful program.
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Faculty:
Jo Vinson, BA RN CASC
Surgical Care Affiliates
Location: National Harbor 10/11
Content Area: Human Resources
Description: Avoid costly and time-consuming staff turnover by hiring the right talent for all of the positions in your ASC. Find out how to ensure a good fit between job candidates and your ASC by assessing your candidates’ probability of engagement and clearly defining a long-term vision of the talent that you need in the positions you are filling. Use the insights and information this session will provide to avoid inappropriate hiring caused by rushing to fill positions due to time constraints and a desire to deliver service with fewer resources.
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Faculty:
Dana Bjarnason, PhD, RN, NE-BC
Oregon Health & Science University
Location: Potomac C
Content Area: Human Resources
Description: As a nurse and a leader in your ASC, you must continually synthesize your professional obligations with ethical principles and nursing's Code of Ethics to establish expectations and maintain a safe, high quality practice environment. Discuss case studies that describe nursing practice issues that affect health care safety and quality using relevant ethical standards and provisions for addressing concerns that involve staffing, conflict, disruptive behavior and more.
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Faculty:
Mary Jean Geroulo, MBA, JD
Wilson Elser
Location: National Harbor 2/3
Content Area: Financial
Description: Billing as an out-of-network (OON) provider can increase an ASC’s revenue, but any increase should be evaluated against the potential liabilities that OON billing can create. Risks associated with out-of-network billing include payment denials and charges of false or misleading claims that could subject the billing provider to enforcement actions and penalties. Discuss the laws that can be used to prosecute certain OON billing practices and the mechanisms providers can use to reduce the risk associated with this type of billing.
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Faculty:
Louis Raso, MD
Jupiter Interventional Pain Management
Location: Coming Soon
Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Description: Engage in an interactive discussion with a physician who performs spinal cord stimulator (SCS) insertions and pain pump implantations in the outpatient setting. Discuss indications for these procedures, the patient selection process, proper techniques and more.
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6:00pm–9:00pm |
Location: Orchard Terrace
Description: This year’s social event—a Cinco De Mayo celebration—is the perfect opportunity to take a break and enjoy an evening out with other ASCA 2017 attendees. On the terrace, overlooking the Potomac River, you will enjoy some traditional Mexican cuisine, including fish tacos, grilled corn on the cob, churros and maybe a margarita or two. While the evening will evoke the spirit of a traditional Cinco De Mayo festival, the band will also play its special collection of classic rock and dance music favorites, so don’t miss this chance to spend some time networking with your ASC friends, new and old!
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