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Hospitals chasing better readmission performance need to go deeper into the KPI level instead of shooting blindly. The data and KPIs point to the ED, where greater than 80% to 90% of readmissions arrive through the ED. That concentration is…

Aug 11, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

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  • Nik Rao, CEO, Dexur

As oncology care continues to shift into ambulatory infusion settings, nurses are caring for sicker patients, more complex regimens, and increasingly unpredictable days. Yet many infusion centers still rely on time-based models, nurse-to-chair ratios, or single acuity scores that fail…

Jul 14, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Presenters:
  • Marisa Quinn, Director of Nursing, Infusion Services & Cancer Acute Care, UCSF
  • Caroline Clark, Director of Guidelines and Quality, Oncology Nursing Society
  • Lisa Fidyk, Associate Clinical Director, Site Administrator, Penn Presbyterian Infusion Services
  • Pamela F. Tobias, Sr Director Customer Success, LeanTaaS

Health systems spend their days caring for patients, but the people delivering that care are under strain of their own. In Lyra’s 2026 State of Workforce Mental Health report, nearly half of hospital staff said they’re in “survival mode,” navigating…

Aug 12, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Presenters:
  • Mark DeFee, Solutions Consultant, Lyra Health
  • Deborah Visconi, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center
  • Suneel Kumar Parvathareddy, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Wilkes Medical Center and Medical Director of Hospital Medicine and Skilled Nursing Facility, Advocate/Atrium Health Wilkes Medical Center
  • Eric Parmenter, Vice President of Health Systems, Quantum Health
  • Mary Beth Lardazabal, Vice President of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Allina Health

Emergency departments often set the pace for the entire hospital. When patients board for hours waiting for beds, the ripple effects hit staffing, discharge timeliness and overall capacity. To break that cycle, University Health has been strengthening the link between…

Aug 13, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:
  • Bill Phillips, EVP & COO, University Health
  • Ashley Schutz, MHA, MLS (ASCP), Director of IT Quality Assurance, University Health
  • Bill Griffith, Operational Excellence Advisor

For most independent ASCs, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI, it’s where to start and what to automate first. A new survey of 160 ambulatory leaders across 8 specialties surfaced three findings reshaping how leaders prioritize: 75%…

Aug 11, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Gautam Shah, MBA, FACHDM, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, NextGen Healthcare

The Joint Commission’s standards on effective communication and language access, HHS’s CLAS Standards, CMS Conditions of Participation, and new state interpreter mandates are pushing health systems to rethink how they serve LEP patients. For patient experience leaders, the pressure is…

Aug 10, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:
  • Dipak Patel, CEO, GLOBO
  • Tyler Gegan, MBA, FACHE, CPXP, System Executive Director of Patient Experience, UnityPoint Health
  • Maria Pamboukis, M.D. CPXP., Director, Patient Services, Denver Health

A mandatory bundled payment model is arriving for orthopedic care, and under CJR-X, hospitals and health systems will be accountable for the total cost and quality of each episode — whether or not they are prepared. Programs that misjudge their…

Aug 27, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:
  • P. Maxwell Courtney, MD, Chair of AAHKS Advocacy Committee Division Chief of Adult Reconstruction at Rothman Orthopedics Associate Professor, Orthopedic Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University
  • Stephen Engstrom, MD, MBA, AAHKS Advocacy Committee Member Orthopedic Surgeon, Vanderbilt Orthopaedics Assistant Professor, Division of Adult Reconstruction, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Bronwyn Spira PT, MPT, Founder & CEO, Force Therapeutics
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