The Speakers

Value-based Care and Population Health: the role of the Hospitalist

An introduction and glimpse into the future of hospital medicine’s driving role in achieving our goals of population health, optimizing safety and value-based care. Dr. Scheurer will share her passion for instilling High Reliability principles throughout the healthcare system, to improve safety and quality across all sites for all patients, while simultaneously enabling team engagement for performance excellence.

Data Mining or Undermining: The Challenges of Performance Metrics Programs

Your team has been asked to hit certain “performance metrics” – are you going to be improving patient care and data-mining valuable information? Or will you be spinning your wheels or even undermining your ability to deliver true quality? These are the possibilities and pitfalls we all face! This session offers experience, perspectives and ideas from multiple viewpoints – delivered by hospitalists who have navigated these waters both as team leaders and frontline hospitalists. Attendees will gain new insights on the driving forces of these metrics, aligning incentives, approaches to minimize unintended consequences and workflow disruptions as well as ways SHM is actively working to make sure hospitalists’ input heard. Both leaders and frontline providers will benefit from better understanding the reasons and ways to improve performance metrics.

Data Mining or Undermining: The Challenges of Performance Metrics Programs

Your team has been asked to hit certain “performance metrics” – are you going to be improving patient care and data-mining valuable information? Or will you be spinning your wheels or even undermining your ability to deliver true quality? These are the possibilities and pitfalls we all face! This session offers experience, perspectives and ideas from multiple viewpoints – delivered by hospitalists who have navigated these waters both as team leaders and frontline hospitalists. Attendees will gain new insights on the driving forces of these metrics, aligning incentives, approaches to minimize unintended consequences and workflow disruptions as well as ways SHM is actively working to make sure hospitalists’ input heard. Both leaders and frontline providers will benefit from better understanding the reasons and ways to improve performance metrics.

Home Hospital: a Primer and Update on the Role of the Hospitalist

The Home Hospital model of care allows for patients to receive hospital-level care from the comfort of their own home and away from many of the risks inherent to the brick & mortar hospital. While forms of this care model have existed for over 20 years, it has been greatly accelerated by the COVID pandemic and by the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. This presentation will first provide the audience with a brief primer on this care model and the waiver. Secondly, it will give an update on the most recent published data on the care model as well as the state of the CMS waiver and legislation as it relates to the eventual end of the public health emergency. Finally, it will discuss the role of hospital medicine and the hospitalist in this care provided outside the traditional hospital setting.

A unique experience in Wellbeing- fostering a Culture of Community

Participants will engage in a set of interactive experiences designed to foster discussion and reflection around the concepts of relational trust. Participants will discuss relational trust and its impact on safety and quality in the healthcare setting. Participants will identify key elements of relational trust and how to foster community in healthcare settings. Lastly, participants will identify steps to building relational trust in their local settings.

Activities will include a walk in the Asheville community, readings, discussion, reflection and goal setting.