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ASHHRA Webinars

Webinars are excellent learning opportunities led by ASHHRA members and partners with specific expertise in the health care HR profession.

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Health Care Plan Design for 2014 – Will Your Hospital/Health System Be Ready?

Friday, May 17, 2013
1 p.m. ET (12 p.m. CT, 11 a.m. MT, 10 a.m. PT)
90 minute webinar
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Health Care Reform imposes a number of new requirements on the benefits that must be covered by certain group health plans.  Many of these requirements take effect for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014. Health care HR leaders, hospitals, and health systems need to prepare for this impending change.

Is your organization prepared for 2014 health care plan requirements?  The time has come for employers to decide whether to play or pay under the employer shared responsibility mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  If the answer is to play, employers need to take steps now to comply with the employer shared responsibility requirements and avoid significant penalties that may apply for failure to offer coverage to full-time employees or for offering unaffordable or insufficient coverage to full-time employees.

The webinar will focus on the steps other hospitals and health systems are taking and summarize the recent regulatory developments and transitional guidance including:

  • An employer may exclude up to five percent of full-time employees and still avoid the no coverage penalty (including per diem, part-time, registry, and other excluded employees)
  • The offer of coverage must include dependent children under age 26, but not spouses
  • A special effective date applies for an employer with a fiscal-year plan year
  • Two additional safe harbors based on rate of pay and the federal poverty line are added for purposes of the affordability requirement
  • Shorter measurement periods are permitted for the 2014 determination of both large employers and full-time employee status
  • Further guidance is provided with respect to hours of service and what it means to offer coverage
  • Rules are provided regarding rehired employees and employees with breaks in service
Learning Objectives:
  • Understand the unique design issues a health care provider will face in implementing the health care reform rules for its own health plan
  • Identify the key health care reform issues your organization needs to address to be ready for 2014
  • Prepare for and avoid the application of the no coverage and unaffordable/insufficient coverage penalties

Faculty:
Sarah Millar, Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Mike Rosenbaum, Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Dawn Sellstrom, Counsel, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Price:
ASHHRA Members: $69
Non Members: $99

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Collective Impact Strategies to Achieve Systemic and Sustainable Health Improvement - Part 2
June 4, 2013
2:00-3:00 ET
1:00-2:00 CT
 
No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to primary and preventive health care services, health promotion and health protection. Achieving meaningful impact on these issues requires systems level change and needs to involve a range of cross-sector organizations. While cross-sector collaborations are not new, effective cross-sector collaborations that have achieved meaningful, systems-level impact at scale are not common.
 
FSG, over the past five years, has researched close to three dozen examples (including in community health) of effective cross-sector collaborations across the globe. This research culminated in the development of the collective impact framework which essentially captures the key principles that make collaborations effective.
 
In this webinar, FSG will share how collective impact can be helpful in addressing community health issues using two specific examples: asthma prevention and obesity. Through these examples, participants will have the chance to understand in depth, how hospitals, public health institutions, safety net organizations, philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, the local community and corporations (pharmaceutical, medical device and health insurance) have worked collaboratively to address these issues.
 
Presenter:
Lalitha Vaidyanathan, Managing Director at FSG

This webinar is available free of charge, but advance registration is required. To register click here. If you have any questions, please contact us at hpoe@aha.org.

HPOE Live! is an American Hospital Association webinar series that highlights leading strategies and innovations in performance improvement that are being championed today in America’s hospitals and health systems. It is produced by Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence, the AHA’s strategic platform that provides field-tested practices, tools, education and other networking resources to accelerate performance improvement and delivery system transformation in the nation’s hospitals and health systems. Keep an eye out for future emails announcing upcoming webinars in the series.

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Using CME for System Delivery Improvement
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
1 p.m. ET (12 p.m. CT, 11 a.m. MT, 10 a.m. PT)
60 minutes with live Q&A
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As health care delivery reshapes, hospitals are using new and creative ways to engage with physicians to create a more integrated and seamless care system. Jim Burke, MD, senior vice president and chief physician executive, and Charles Finch, DO, FACOEP, chief academic officer, Scottsdale Healthcare, will share their efforts to use continuing medical education (CME) offerings to align physicians across the health care system and to drive performance improvement.

Learning objectives:

  • Understand how Scottsdale Healthcare is using CME to integrate with its physicians to improve care delivery;
  • Discover national trends regarding CME and physician engagement;
  • Identify existing professional gaps currently being addressed through CME;
  • Learn CME’s role in your institution’s process improvement.

To participate in the live event, you will need a telephone line and a computer with an Internet connection.

Registration:
Click here to register. There is no charge for this AHA member benefit.

Questions:
Contact Dan Paloski at (312) 422-2914 or physicianforum@aha.org.

About the Physician Leadership Forum:
As part of the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) ongoing mission to improve the health of patients and communities, AHA introduced the Physician Leadership Forum to engage and partner with physicians to collaboratively advance excellence in patient care. AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum also seeks to gather input from physicians to inform AHA policy and advocacy efforts while advancing physician leadership within the health care delivery system.

About the Section for Metropolitan Hospitals:
The Section for Metropolitan Hospitals is a membership section comprised of metropolitan/urban, suburban, public, and teaching hospitals from across the country. The Section provides a unique blend of forum and network, linking hospital members with shared interests and missions, to advise AHA on policy and advocacy activities, and to discuss issues of importance to metropolitan hospitals.

Faculty:
Jim Burke, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Physician Executive, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Charles Finch, DO, FACOEP, Chief Academic Officer, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Hosted by: John R. Combes, MD, Senior Vice President, American Hospital Association

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