Strategic Planning and Marketing 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?
• How are hospitals responding to the economic downturn? 
• Collaboration models are the newest and greatest. How do hospitals deal with the proliferation of physician owned procedure facilities?
• What are the successful integration strategies, joint ventures, and physician employment models being implemented across the country?
• How are organizations paying physicians for taking call? What are the national trends?
• Capacity management--both physical plant/bed capacity, as well as, labor capacity and availability. Any helpful survival hints for a major campus renovation? How do we meet the demands of increased patient volumes with limited physical capacities, and sky-rocketing ED and inpatient demands?
• How do we get accurate updates and impact predictions on the new technologies driving and shaping our industry?
• How do we re-design our systems to ensure quality on a corporate-wide basis? How can we be sensitive to the increasing expectation among consumers and purchasers that they will have meaningful outcomes data made available to them?
• Medical staff development strategy, and specifically physician recruitment issues.
• Outcomes reporting to the public--how are other members handling this reporting function on their internet sites?
• Internal dashboards & report cards - good examples of internal documents that track achievements across all strategies.
• Growth in indigent and self-pay patients. Charity care policies and pricing pressures.
• New brand roll-out. Getting everyone to abide by brand structure design.
• Employee Surveying: "Why do you work here?"

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.