Discharge Planning & Capacity Management Summit 2022 | BRI Network | 19 September 2022 | Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, 540 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA

About the Conference:
Care coordination within hospitals and health systems has never been more important as it helps to align priorities of care teams and minimize waste within the system. Delayed discharges are not just an inconvenience; they lead to poorer experiences for patients and prevent hospitals from providing responsive care for patients requiring acute care, and those requiring admission for planned procedures. Poorly managed hospital-wide patient flow and capacity management has critical implications for both patients and providers.

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted all aspects of hospital care, and has altered nearly all fundamental practices, including discharge protocols. Discharge planning is an integral part of a hospital’s clinical care. On a daily basis, healthcare providers think carefully about how to help patients safely transition back into life outside of the hospital. Patients need up-to-date information about how to keep themselves and those around them safe, and resources and support to help them recover from illness. In response to COVID-19, within an exceptionally short time frame, hospitals have had to rapidly adapt their discharge planning protocols and have had to continue to adapt as new information comes out. The pandemic has highlighted the importance of discharge planning for patient care and has added a new element of public health in that healthcare providers have to take all possible precautions to ensure that patients are not spreading the virus after they leave the hospital.

The conference brings together leaders from hospitals, health systems, home care, health plans and managed care organizations to discuss best practices for improving care coordination, reducing readmissions, preventing avoidable healthcare utilization, and collaborating across the continuum. Network with leading practitioners on discharge planning and learn from the success of others on how to prevent hospital readmissions through comprehensive discharge planning; move patients quickly, efficiently and safely through the hospital system; improve capacity planning and service design; enhance patient care and satisfaction; and much more.

Who Should Attend?
From Hospitals/Health Systems/Health Plans:
• CEO’s
• CFO’s
• VP
• Quality Improvement Director
• Emergency Room Director
• Patient Flow Director
• Discharge Planning
• Case Management Director
• Nursing Director
• Care Coordination
• Utilization Review
• ICU Director
• Admissions Director
• Hospitalists
• Billing
• Operations
• Patient Financial Services
• Medical Directors
• Social Service Director
• Clinical Operations Director
• Patient Transportation
• TeleICU
• Also of Interest to Vendors/Service Providers

2022 Speakers

Maria Romano, MPH, BS, RN
Global Clinical Executive, TeleTracking

Rebecca Gomez, MD, FHM, FAAFP
Chair, Internal Medicine Section, Medical Director, Observation Unit, AdventHealth South

Cori Garner, RNC-OB, MHA, BSN, NE-BC
Director, Patient Command Center, Advocate Aurora Health

Margaret Gavigan, MSN, MBA, RN, NEA-BC
Regional Chief Nursing Officer and System VP, Clinical Operations, Advocate Aurora Health

Bonnie Geld, MSW
President & CEO, The Center for Case Management

Adam D. Kotz, MD
Associate Attending Physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sharon E. Mace, MD, FACEP, FAAP
Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Director, Research, Emergency Services Institute (ESI), Former, Director, Observation Unit, ESI, Cleveland Clinic

Lauren Doctoroff, MD, MBA
Hospitalist, Hospital Medicine Program, Medical Director for Utilization Management, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Jamie Nordhagen, MS, RN, NEA-BC
Senior Director, Patient Flow and Capacity Management, Patient Representatives, UCHealth

Colman Tom, DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, VHA-CM
Lean Six Sigma – Green Belt, Clinical Transfer Coordinator, Department of Chief of Staff, Central Virginia Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration

Anu Banerjee
Director, Quality Management and Performance Improvement, UHS, Southwest Healthcare System

Ron T. Martinson, MD, MSM-HCA, CPE
Community Medicine Officer, Knox Community Hospital

Amy Lockwood, DNP, CRNP
Manager, Advanced Practice Providers, Emergency Department/Observation Unit, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center/Cedar

Kelly Pio, MSN, FNP-BC
Lead Advanced Practice Provider, Emergency Department Observation Unit, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Colleen Morley, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM, FCM
Director of Case Management, Weiss Memorial Hospital, President, Case Management Society of America

Nicholas Steinour, MD, FACEP, MBA
Emergency Department Medical Director, Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Division Chief of Emergency Medicine, Dell Medical School

Angie L. Banet, DNP, RN, NE-BC
Director, Care Management & Clinical Effectiveness, Norton Healthcare

Mary Noil Pilkington, RN, BSN, CCM
System Director, Care Coordination and Clinical Social Work, UCLA Health

Danielle Andrade, MBA-HCM, BSN, RN, CCM, NHA
Senior Director of Care Management, UCHealth

2022 Sponsors

LEAD SPONSOR:
• TeleTracking

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS:
• LeanTaaS
• Hospital IQ