Program

ADVANCED PRACTITIONER TRACK

Dialysis Unit Management

Tuesday, April 13th | 7:30 am – 5:30 pm

Course Director: Thomas A Golper MD, FACP, FASN
Session 223, 7.5 credits

Target Audience:
Designed for physician directors, nurse managers, patient care supervisors, administrators and quality managers.

Course Description:
The emphasis will be on updating the national issues as they relate to facility management and the impact of the 2008 conditions of coverage on patient care and facility operations. A second session will address bundling strategies.

Course Objectives:

Review the national quality goals
Describe the trade-offs in cost, quality, value
Identify the ethical dilemmas created by quality contingent reimbursement

Course Agenda
Time	Topic	Faculty
7:30am – 8:00am	Welcome and Breakfast	Thomas A. Golper, MD
8:00am – 8:30am	News issues and Media Updates as They Relate to Topic	Mark Neumann
8:30am – 9:00am	Perspective of Topic from Network Side	Jay B. Wish, MD
9:00am – 9:30am	Perspective of Topic from a Washington/Political Side	Rob Blaser
9:30am – 10:00am	A Quality and Safety Officer’s Viewpoint	Carol Roe, RN, JD
10:00am – 10:15am	Break	—
10:15am – 11:00am	The Facility Administrator’s View Point	Marshia Coe, RN, BSN
11:00am – 11:30am	The Nurse Practitioner’s View Point	Andrea Easom, MNSc, APN, BC, CNN
11:30am – 1:00pm	Lunch Break	—
1:00pm – 1:30pm	Physician’s View of Topic	John Stivelman, MD
1:30pm – 2:00 pm	Physician’s View of Topic	Stephen Fadem, MD
2:00pm – 2:30pm	From a Technical Standpoint	Richard Ward, MD
2:30pm – 2:45pm	Break	—
2:45pm – 5:00 pm	How Will the Bundling Initiatives Change What We Do?	All Faculty (15 minutes each)
5:00pm – 5:30pm	Group Discussion on Bundling	All faculty

REQUIRED: Additional registration fee of $125 ($175 when registering for the course only); includes syllabus, breakfast, boxed lunch, and CME/CE credits.

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