2013 HR Issues:  What You Should Do to Prepare Now!

As we approach the new era of health care reform, hospitals and health systems will need to create more efficient, innovative ways to deliver health care. This will have a substantial impact upon organizations’ human capital. HR leaders must seriously examine the engagement culture in their organizations and consider revising or developing new strategies to better prepare for the impact of health care reform.

Course Objectives

Attendees will learn:

• 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 prepare their organization to maintain a union-free environment
• How to determine the vulnerability of their organization to organizing
• Key issues HR leaders should know to successfully manage a merger, acquisition or affiliation

Who Should Attend?

This program is intended for:

• Human Resources Executives/Directors/Specialists
• Labor Relations Specialists
• In-house Legal Counsel
• Chief Nursing Officer

Agenda

All webcasts will be held 10  – 11:15 a.m. on the designated dates.

Webcast 1:  April 3, 2013
Healthcare Reform and Leading the “People” Change, Kevin Haeberle, Integrated Healthcare Strategies

As the provisions of health care reform move forward, many changes on the horizon will directly impact the “people” side of the health care delivery team. The Independent Payment Advisory Board, established under the Affordable Care Act, is charged to target “ways to reduce costs” and “improve care” by 2014. For those who provide leadership in health care, these are two conflicting charges that create serious challenges for health care providers. In this program, we will discuss the steps that we, as HR and “people” experts, need to initiate and implement now to help employees, physicians and health care leaders move more effectively and deliberately through these changes.  

Webcast 2: May 1, 2013   
Union Organizing Tactics and Organizational Prevention Strategies and Readiness, Jo Zamora, IRI Consulting

Enhance your knowledge of current labor issues, national union activity and union organizing trends and tactics. The session will highlight best practices in the areas of training, education, vulnerability assessment, communication and strategy that support an organization’s goal of remaining union free. Participants will engage in a hands-on learning exercise to help them assess their level of readiness in responding to a union-organizing drive.

Webcast 3:  June 19, 2013
Implications for Mergers and Acquisitions, Mary Novak-Jandrey, HR Advantage

With the phased-in implementation of the Affordable Care Act and other changes in the revenue stream for hospitals, there is an emerging trend for hospitals to look for  partners to acquire, merge or affiliate with. Senior health care executives are realizing that survival in the new health care world means significant size, market share and financial resources. The pace of mergers, acquisitions and affiliations is increasing rapidly. This session will provide human resources professionals with an understanding of the key issues they will need to address to successfully manage a merger, acquisition  or affiliation. The session will also focus on practical tips, tools and processes that can be used before, during and after the change in control process.

Webcast 4:  August 7, 2013
Strategic Workforce Planning: To Infinity and Beyond Can You Manage Human Capital Supply Chain Effectively? and Workforce Planning:  California Health Care Workforce Readiness for the ACA Era, Jim Finkelstein, FutureSense®, Inc. and Catherine Dower, FutureSense®, Inc.

Jim Finkelstein will engage participants in a lively, focused discussion of the meta, macro and micro issues affecting talent management for their  hospitals now and in the future. This is a new discipline critical to the long-term success for those charged with managing human capital in an ever-changing industry.

Catherine Dower will explore our readiness to meet the increased demand for care that will accompany implementation of the ACA based on a comprehensive study of the health care workforce supply in California across the professions and across all counties. Join this discussion of steps that might be undertaken to best position the state to answer this unprecedented call for more providers.

Speakers 

Kevin Haeberle, JD, senior vice president and senior adviser, MSA HR Capital at Integrated Healthcare Strategies, has more than 20 years of experience as a consultant, attorney and health care administrator. As a nationally recognized expert in  human resources issues, Haeberle combines his knowledge and expertise in human capital management with an administrative and financial approach to successfully developed plans and systems that support chief executive, financial and chief human resources  officers.

Josephine Zamora, partner, IRI, Consultants, has more than 20 years of health care experience in labor and employee relations, leadership development and coaching strategy development, deployment and training. She and the IRI team have worked with some of the nation’s largest and most-respected hospitals, including Tenet Healthcare, Cedars-Sinai Health System, St. Joseph Health System, MedStar Health and The John Hopkins Hospital  to help implement best practices to improve employee job satisfaction and enhance the employer-employee  relationship.

Mary Novak-Jandrey is the managing director of HRadvantage, a leading human resource consulting firm  focusing on the health care industry. HRadvantage is a division of the  international company Arthur J.  Gallagher & Co. Jandrey’s more than 30 years of experience in nursing, health care management and human resources give her unique insights in  developing strategies for successful work environments in  health care organizations. She is an author and speaker on various human resources topics in the health care.

Jim Finkelstein, president and CEO of FutureSense®, Inc., has more than 30 years of consulting and corporate experience. He has specialized in business and people strategy, motivation and reward, and organizational assessment, development, communications and transformation. Finkelstein’s experience has included being a partner in a Big Five firm, a CEO of a professional services firm, a corporate executive for Fortune 500 companies, and an entrepreneur with his current company, FutureSense, Inc. He is a co-author of FUSE: Igniting the Full Power of the Creative Economy.

Catherine Dower, JD, Associate Director, Research Center for the Health Professions, University of California, San Francisco, co-directs the Health Workforce Tracking Collaborative, which assesses efforts to meet health care workforce challenges such as mal-distribution, shortages and language access. She is the former director of the California Workforce Initiative and principal author of the Pew Health Professions Commission’s reports on health professions regulation. Catherine’s published work targets health professions regulation and women’s health, and as an active member of the Center’s speakers’ bureau, she addresses health care educators, professionals, regulators and legislators across the country.

Registration & CE Credit

Registration fees include webcast information and handouts.
Each webinar is $180, or attendees can sign up for all four at $640 (a discount of $20 per webinar).

Continuing Education Credit Available:

ACHE Category: HASC is authorized to award 1 hour of pre-approved ACHE Qualified Education credit for this program toward advancement or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program wishing to have the continuing education hours applied toward ACHE Qualified Education credit should indicate their attendance when submitting application to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification.

BRN Credit: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. CEP #970 for 1 contact hour.