2013 HR Issues: Are You Ready? will explore the need to examine the engagement culture in hospitals and consider revising or developing new strategies to better prepare for the impact of health care reform.

The session will take place in Northern California on Feb. 13, 2013 at the Patrick Hays Learning Center, San Francisco / San Joaquin Rooms in Sacramento and in Southern California on Feb. 21 at the Quiet Cannon Meeting Center in Montebello.

Timely topics will include:

• Steps HR leaders should initiate and implement to help their organization move through the changes of health care reform
• Strategies utilized by organizations to proactively maintain a union-free environment
• How to determine the vulnerability of an organization to organizing
• Key issues for HR leaders to successfully manage a merger, acquisition or affiliation
• How to link strategic workforce planning to your business and strategic plans

The event is sponsored by HASC and Hospital Council of Northern and Central California.

For more information and to register online for the Southern California program, go to http://events.SignUp4.com/hrissues. For the Northern California seminar, visit https://www.thinkreg.com/coral/register.do?formId=NF1BYI0F4PP2.

Contact: Teri Hollingsworth
(213) 538-0763, thollingsworth@hasc.org