Health Care Quality Initiatives
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Format: Audio CD-ROM (includes presentation materials) Meeting the standards of current federal, state and private quality initiatives is an increasingly complicated process, and one that can have serious legal and financial consequences for your hospital. Part Four of THA's seven-part series on compliance, this audioconference will help your staff understand the key issues of current quality programs, including The National Quality Forum's 28 serious reportable events in health care; The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals; and The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Private payers and state governments are closely following the implementation of these programs, as well as CMS pay-for-performance initiatives with an eye toward implementing similar initiatives. |
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TARGET AUDIENCE Chief executive officers, chief medical officers, medical directors/staff, chief financial officers, nurse executives, hospital legal staff, compliance officers, risk managers, quality and performance improvement managers, social workers, case managers and coders/HIM managers will benefit from this audioconference. Hospitals also are encouraged to include other department directors as appropriate. |
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DISCUSSION TOPICS This audioconference will help your staff:
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FACULTY Matthew T. Wall, J.D., Associate Counsel, Texas Hospital Association. Wall joined THA in August 1986, and currently serves as associate general counsel. As one of three in-house attorneys, his responsibilities include legislative and regulatory advocacy, advising member hospitals on health law issues, and health law research. He is a graduate of Rice University and the University of Houston College of Law. Wall is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the American Health Lawyers Association and the Austin Health Lawyers Group. He was appointed in 1999 to the council of the state bar health law section. Charles David Brown, Sr. Associate, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. Brown is focused on the health care industry as a senior associate in Fulbright & Jaworski's Houston office. He guides clients in both the prosecution and defense of matters in the court system, before agencies, and in alternative dispute proceedings. His broad experience and knowledge base includes vending and services contracts between vendors and hospitals, commercial disputes between hospitals, nonsubscriber suits for healthcare clients, Medicare appeals, medical and hospital malpractice and employment suits involving hospitals. Yvonne Karen Puig, partner, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. Puig practices exclusively in the health care area, and represents hospitals, HMOs, medical schools and other institutional health care providers. She has extensive experience in a variety of health law regulatory matters, including, but not limited to: EMTALA, credentialing, due process hearings, and Joint Commission accreditation and compliance. Her trial experience includes complex litigation, such as representation of hospital systems, manufacturers and sellers of medical devices, and commercial litigation involving the health industry. Additionally, she has experience reviewing business arrangements among managed care providers and other statutory and regulatory compliance. Starr West, CPHQ, Director of Policy Analysis, THA. West has a strong background in performance improvement, patient safety, health information management, and performance measurement. Prior to joining THA, West was a clinical outcomes consultant at SETON Healthcare Network in Austin, account representative with HCIA (now Solucient, LLC) and Director of Quality Outcomes Management with South Austin Hospital in Austin. ORDER NOW! Order online or via fax/mail. Offer expires Feb. 28, 2009. |
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