Practice Administrators' Roundtable Series

A New FREE Resource from SHM Specifically for Practice Leaders

These quarterly events will be brief (30-45 minutes) opportunities to discuss issues of common concern, and to share best practices around various topics. Following a short, formal presentation, all participants are encouraged to take part in the discussion.

Upcoming Roundtable Topics:

Hospitalist Return on Investment: Measuring & Demonstrating Value to Hospital Leadership
Practice Administrators' Roundtable Series IV
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Thomas A. Owens, MD – Chief Medical Officer, Duke Hospital

This interactive session will explore:

• Definitions and types of return on investment from Hospitalist programs
• Development of methods and metrics to measure these outcomes
•  Approaches to using internal and external benchmarks
• Strategies to communicate return on investment to hospital leadership

Register Now for the September 22nd Roundtable

Previous Roundtable Topics:

Geographic Deployment and Multi-Disciplinary Care Teams: The Practical's and Challenges
Practice Administrators' Roundtable Series III
Thursday, May 6, 2010 12:30 – 1:30 PM EDT
Speaker: Jerome C. Siy, MD, SFHM – Department Head of Hospital Medicine, Regions Hospital

View the May 6th Presentation Here

Are NPs and PAs right for your practice?
Practice Administrators' Roundtable Series II
Speaker: Michael Powe, Vice President of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)

View the January 14th Presentation Here

Read the following articles on the utilization of NPs & PAs in hospitalist practices:

• Staff Commitment to Trauma Care Improves Mortality and Length of Stay at a Level I Trauma Center
• Physician Extenders Impact Trauma Systems
• Pediatric Intensivist Extenders in the Pediatric ICU
• The role of physician-assistants in critical care units

The Physician's Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI): Getting your Hospitalist Program Started in Medicare's Voluntary Pay for Reporting Program
Practice Administrators' Roundtable Series I
Speaker: Pat Torcson, MD, Director of Hospital Medicine at St Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington, Louisiana
Click here to view the full presentation

The Practice Administrators' Roundtable Series is presented by SHM and the SHM's Administrators' Task Force. Pre-registration is not necessary. There is no cost to participate in this or future sessions, and it is open to non-members.