Cardiac Care Leadership for Improved Alignment and Outcomes
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HealthLeaders Media Rounds Webcast-on-Demand
Cardiac Care Leadership for Improved Alignment and Outcomes
Presented on February 15, 2011
Medical specialties are being tied back together with hospitals and health systems like never before. Nowhere are the resulting alignment challenges more acute than in the cardiac service line, where independent practices find themselves seeking the financial shelter of integration.
Join us for HealthLeaders Media Rounds: Cardiac Care Leadership for Improved Alignment and Outcomes, broadcast from Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital. In this extended webcast, share the lessons from executives at leading national cardiac service lines and medical groups on shared governance, clinical integration, and physician alignment. This three-hour webcast includes a roundtable discussion—including interactive Q&A—with successful strategies from top executives, including how to:
- Create the foundations to achieve alignment and integration in the cardiac service line
- Improve cardiac organizational and clinical performance through shared governance and a multidisciplinary care structure
- Combine service line management and full integration in one model
- Connect physician cultural engagement with strategy
AGENDA
Shared Governance in Cardiac Care, Process Permanence to Reduce Variability, and a Culture of Physician Leadership and Accountability
Paul Convery, MD, MMM, Chief Medical Officer, Baylor Health Care System
Nancy Vish, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FACHE, President, Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital
Kevin Wheelan, MD, Chief of Staff & Co-Medical Director of Cardiology, Heart Place
- Use shared governance in cardiac care
- Physician/administrative dyads
- Structures and makeup of multidisciplinary cardiac team
- Shared leadership structure/multidisciplinary committees
- Physician leadership development and building physician champions
- Build process permanence to reduce variability
- Development of care protocols and pathways in congestive heart failure
- Design a cardiac care model to improve outcomes and reduce cost
- Create a culture of physician leadership and accountability
- Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital alignment model
Creating a Cardiovascular Disease Management Company
Tim Attebery, Chief Executive Officer, Wellmont Cardiology Services
- Limitations of co-management
- Enterprise-model cardiac service line management and integration
- Five steps: Clinical, legal, strategic, financial, operational
Blended Model Cardiac Alignment
Suzette Jaskie, MBA, Executive Director, Frederik Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute for Spectrum Health, and Chief Executive Officer, West Michigan Heart, Grand Rapids, MI
- The promise of integration
- Optimize alignment: Shared governance and real decision-making
- Determine shared priorities
Interactive Q&A
SPEAKERS
Paul Convery, MD, MMM, Chief Medical Officer, Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, TX
Convery’s current role involves working with physician and operational leadership to advance healthcare improvement throughout the Baylor Health Care System. This includes healthcare outcomes improvement, patient safety, health equity, clinical informatics, research, medical education, and the unified medical staff process. In 2008, Baylor Health Care System was awarded the NQF National Quality Healthcare Award.
Previously, Convery served as executive vice president and chief medical officer of SSM Health Care-St. Louis, the first healthcare winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
Nancy Vish, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FACHE, President, Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital, Dallas, TX
Vish is responsible for managing the hospital's for-profit joint venture business model, overseeing growth, and managing a successful quality program with the highest quality and satisfaction scores in the Baylor Health Care System.
Vish has more than 20 years experience in nursing and management. She joined Baylor Health Care System in 1996 as the program manager/director for the Cardiac Cath Lab, EP/PM Lab, Coronary Care Unit and Interventional Cardiology Unit at Baylor University Medical Center. She served as the first vice president of clinical operations and chief nursing officer for the Baylor Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital beginning in 2001.
Kevin Wheelan, MD, Chief of Staff & Co-Medical Director of Cardiology, Heart Place, Dallas, TX
Wheelan joined the staff at Baylor University Medical Center Dallas in 1986 as director of pacing and electrophysiology. He was the first physician in north Texas to implant an ICD and helped develop the clinical techniques for implantation of defibrillators without open chest surgery. His career has included involvement in almost all pivotal national trials of pacing and electrophysiology over the past 23 years.
Wheelan was named co-chief of cardiology at Baylor University Medical Center in 1994 and chief of staff of the specialty Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital in 2001. The design and concept of the specialty heart hospital and its structured co-ownership with a large not-for-profit healthcare system was a dream that Wheelan championed for more than 10 years before completion.
Tim Attebery, Chief Executive Officer, Wellmont Cardiology Services, Kingsport, TN
Attebery has 25 years of healthcare consulting and senior management experience focused on cardiovascular services. He has served as CEO of three large cardiovascular group practices from 1992 to present and has a national reputation for aggressive strategic planning, service expansion, revenue enhancement, disease management, joint ventures, and innovative arrangements with hospitals, physicians, and payers.
Attebery served on the executive committee and as president of the Cardiology Leadership Alliance, now known as MedAxiom.
Suzette Jaskie, MBA, Executive Director, Frederik Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute for Spectrum Health, and Chief Executive Officer, West Michigan Heart, Grand Rapids, MI
Frederik Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute is a seven-hospital, 2,000-bed system, and West Michigan Heart is a 30-physician cardiovascular specialty practice. West Michigan Heart and Spectrum Health enjoy a 10-county market dominant position, serviced via their cardiovascular service line with interventional, advanced imaging, advanced heart failure, peripheral vascular, and electrophysiology specialists. Jaskie’s current project is the development of a physician-driven integrated cardiovascular service line management approach to her hospital system’s regional cardiovascular service line.
Previously, Jaskie was the executive director of Wisconsin Heart and Vascular, Milwaukee, WI. Jaskie has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Hartford.About Our Host
Baylor Health Care System is a not-for-profit, faith-based supporting organization providing services to a network of acute care hospitals and related health care entities that provide patient care, medical education, research and community service. Baylor recorded more than 2.6 million patient encounters, $3.8 billion in total operating revenue, $4.4 billion in total assets and $513.5 million in community benefit in fiscal year 2010. Baylor’s network of more than 260 access points includes 26 owned/operated/ ventured/affiliated hospitals, 23 joint ventured ambulatory surgical centers, 50 satellite outpatient locations, four senior centers and 156 HealthTexas physician clinics.
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