Human Resources Executives

The Members formally convene two times per year, spring and fall, for a two-day interactive session. Participants identify the issues they want to explore and the experts they want to hear from. A typical two-day Roundtable seminar will feature 3-5 speakers (outside speakers and/or Members themselves) making presentations on recent trends and innovative projects.

Issues may include topics such as:

• What will Health Care Reform look like under the Obama Administration?  How will each of the system's constituents be impacted?
• What are the Members doing around Accountable Care Organizations?
• Are any Member organizations using their employee population to pilot an ACO model?  If so, what are the early successes or key learnings?
  
• Changes to the health plans due to Healthcare Reform as well as how to best communicate these changes. 
  
• How are Members are addressing the escalating costs of employee healthcare, especially in light of healthcare reform?
  
• We are looking to do some in-house chronic disease management (or management of some of our high dollar employees from a claims perspective) via our employee health department, and I would like to speak with any Member who has had success in that arena.
• Health Savings Accounts: pros & cons, implementation & communication.  We plan to start discounting the employee portion of our health insurance premium based on participation in HRAs/Bio-metrics.  However, we are being deluged with legal opinions that seem to make it next to impossible.  How does/do/did anyone work over/under/around or through it?
• Recruitment/Retention: Continued gaps in the workforce pipeline and recruitment pool. Recruiting and retention of RNs; specifically critical care, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and pharmacy
• Acquiring management talent
• Talent Management/Leadership Development
• Diversity: minority recruitment and retention.
• Physician Recruitment; demand continues to grow.
• How do other health care systems organize their compensation? Are there task forces with representatives from the hospitals? Executive & Director’s Compensation - what are others doing for incentives, bonuses, rewards?
• Integrating disability management services with health management services, specifically using health care claims data to assist in disability management.
• Convincing corporate leadership that there are ways to cut benefit costs without simply increasing employee premiums or reducing plan benefits.
• Executive Compensation--communication of regulatory requirements. How we can assist our academic partners in influencing compensation for faculty? Until we do so, we will not be able to increase the number of key clinical graduates.
• HR org. structure: It appears that our decentralized processes, particularly in selection, are getting more difficult to maintain. The question is to centralize or not to centralize the hiring function?
• Goal to develop "talent management" and "total rewards" initiatives. Local workforce is ill-equipped for our needed positions at the support position level. 
• Employee engagement--employee satisfaction scores are good; next working on engagement. Turnover--Employee satisfaction scores are up, but turnover is not decreasing quickly.
• Policies and practices involving Social Networking
• Absence Management Initiatives - what are health systems doing to decrease absenteeism and administration of leaves? Suggestions for addressing ADA situations.
• Establishing an effective Labor Management Process (including Productivity Measurements, Position Controls & Labor Coach)
• Labor Relations/Union Negotiations: Continued labor strife.

The Roundtable Dues, Attendance and Guest Policy
Tuitions at these meetings are covered by yearly membership dues. Meeting attendance must be a high priority. A Member is strongly encouraged to send an appropriate substitute in the event he or she is unable to attend a scheduled Roundtable Meeting.

A Member may bring one guest to any Meeting, particularly an individual who is considering membership. Guest registrations are made in advance (at no additional charge)--limited to four total per Roundtable Meeting.

In order to cover the costs of the semi-annual meetings, including speaker fees, appropriate research, and operating expenses, Members pay $2,995 for two consecutive meetings.

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