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Webinar

Healthcare Reform: A Risk Manager’s Perspective

Tuesday, Sep. 14, 2010
2-3 p.m. Eastern
1-2 p.m. Central
Noon-1 p.m. Mountain
11 a.m.-noon Pacific

Program

The Affordable Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010, extends “pay-for-reporting” systems across all providers and moves many providers toward value-based purchasing systems.  It also imposes financial penalties on hospitals with defined rates of hospital-acquired conditions.

In addition, the legislation establishes a national quality improvement strategy, creates a public-private institute to analyze the comparative effectiveness of treatments, and creates a patient safety research center to promote the adoption of best practices. It contains provisions to improve delivery of services, particularly to low-income, underserved, uninsured minority and rural populations.

This webinar will help healthcare risk management and patient safety professionals understand and comply with key quality, safety and cost-control provisions of the new law.

Learning Objectives

Participants should be able to:

• Articulate the timing of relevant requirements under the healthcare reform law
• Identify key quality and safety provisions of the healthcare reform law 
• Discuss the risk and safety implications of the new provisions

Presenters

Nancy Foster
Vice President, Quality & Patient Safety Policy
American Hospital Association

• Serves as AHA’s point person for the Hospital Quality Alliance, a public-private effort to provide information to consumers on the quality of care
• Represents the AHA at the National Quality Forum and is liaison to the Joint Commission’s Board

Dan Groszkruger, JD, MPH, CPHRM, DFASHRM
Program Director, Risk Management
Stanford University Medical Center

• Draws on his experience as a hospital executive and trial attorney to educate and train, identify risks, manage claims, resolve disputes, and further patient safety goals
• Serves as member, ASHRM board of directors

Registration

Registration for this program is closed.

Recorded programs
Details on access to program recordings will be available soon.

Cancellation Policy
Registration fee less a $50 charge is refundable only if written cancellation request is postmarked no later than 10 business days before each session date. All cancellation and refund requests must be made in writing to: ASHRM, 155 North Wacker, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60606; fax (312) 422-4580.

Continuing Education Credits

ASHRM/CPHRM Renewal

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.

Verification of Participation/Successful Completion
Live Webinars: CEs are awarded after verification of an individual’s full attendance and successful completion of an online evaluation form (evaluation link provided with handout materials).

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

For CE certificates, each attendee must provide: 1) name; 2) ASHRM member ID; 3) email address.