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Webinar

Discovering the Benefits of Benchmarking
Original program date: Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010

Purchase as a downloadable program

Program

Heightened budgetary pressures today demand regular evaluation of organizational performance both over time and relative to others. Benchmarking hospital professional liability costs against industry data is an effective way for risk managers to evaluate an organization’s status and communicate progress to leadership.

But if you don’t understand the benchmarking process, you cannot fully realize its value as a performance improvement tool. This webinar, led by a risk management professional with actuarial expertise, will show how to tap into the benefits of benchmarking.

Enhance your ability to collect good data and evaluate results, and then use it to champion the opportunity for change.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the benefits of benchmarking for your organization;
• Assess available benchmarks and their appropriateness to your organization;
• Examine potential issues with the integrity of your organization’s data;
• Determine approaches to improve data integrity;
• Evaluate your organization’s results relative to your chosen benchmark; and
• Describe the limitations of benchmarking.

 

Faculty

Erik A. Johnson, FCAS, MAAA
Assistant Director and Actuary, Healthcare Practice Leader, Aon Global Risk Consulting, Raleigh, NC

Michelle Hoppes, RN, MS
CEO, Patient Safety & Risk Solutions LLC, Grand Ledge, MI

Barbara J. Youngberg, BSN, MSW, JD
Author and Senior Lecturer in Residence, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago

Moderator

Krishna Lynch, BSN, RN, MJ, CPHRM
Director, Risk Management Resources, ASHRM, Chicago

Purchase

This downloadable program is available for purchase through ASHRM's Live Learning Center, including continuing education credits.  Click here to purchase.

	Downloadable program
ASHRM members	$99 per site
Nonmembers	$129 per site

 

Continuing Education Credits

American Hospital Association

• This program is approved for a total of 1.0 contact hour of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and toward CPHRM renewal.

Illinois Nurses Association

The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

• This CNE activity is being offered for 1.0 contact hour.

Verification of Participation/Successful Completion
Recorded Webinars: CEs are awarded after verification of full attendance and successful completion of an online evaluation form (provided after the program) and quiz.program).

 

 

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