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Leticia Salcido
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Speakers and Sessions

GENERAL SESSIONS

Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn’t Be Done 

Mick Ebeling
Founder and CEO, Not Impossible Labs

A Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award recipient and Wired magazine Agent of Change, entrepreneur and philanthropist Mick Ebeling is focused on pragmatic, inspirational innovation. As a career producer and filmmaker, and founder-CEO of Not Impossible, Ebeling harvests the premise that if you can envision it, you can do it. His mantra of “commit, then figure it out,” has him convene teams of doers, makers and thinkers to create devices that bring accessibility to all.

In 2013, he traveled to Africa’s Sudan to 3D print prosthetics for children maimed by war.

Ebeling not only pushes the bar on innovation, he also shares the emotionally-resonating story of doing so. These narratives of overcoming seemingly impossible odds have inspired people across the world to do the same.

Ebeling is author of Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn’t Be Done (2015).

 

How Amazon, Google and Apple Plan to Change the Face of Health Care

Ron Galloway
President, Method Research

Ron Galloway is an author and filmmaker, president at Method Research, an institutional research firm. He speaks on the impact of new technologies in health care and finance. He writes a blog about Walmart and why it does and doesn’t work, as well as a conservative column for HuffPost.

His books include Tim Cook Speaks, Rethinking Presentations, and Five Who Matter: Biographies of Civil Rights Leaders for Young Students.

Galloway is a graduate of Georgia Tech and was an investment advisor and analyst for nearly 20 years. In the feat of optimal timing, he retired from investments in 2004.

 

Making Mental Health Essential Health

Patrick J. Kennedy
Founder, One Mind

Patrick J. Kennedy served 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and is known as the author and lead sponsor of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. After leaving Congress in 2010, he co-founded One Mind, a national coalition seeking treatments and cures for neurologic and psychiatric conditions – which will afflict one in three Americans.

He is co-founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a bipartisan organization backing marijuana policy based on science, health, mental wellness and public safety. He is founder, in 2013, of The Kennedy Forum, a behavioral health nonprofit aimed at transforming mental health and addiction care by uniting mental health advocates, business leaders, and government agencies around a common set of goals – including full implementation of the federal parity law.

Kennedy is author of A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction (2015).

 

Health Care in California: What’s the Next Wave?

George W. Greene, Esq.
President/CEO, HASC

Prior to taking HASC’s reins in 2017, George Greene led the Healthcare Association of Hawaii – a role he held since 2009. No stranger to the health care arena, he previously served the American Hospital Association as regional executive for California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii. Before AHA, he worked with Sharp HealthCare of San Diego as director of advocacy, community and multicultural affairs. 

Greene launched his professional career in Washington, D.C., where he served South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis as staffer in the mid 1990s. He subsequently worked for San Diego Mayor Susan Golden.

 

Carmela Coyle
President/CEO, California Hospital Association

Carmela Coyle began her tenure as President/CEO at the California Hospital Association, the statewide organization representing more than 400 hospitals and health systems in California, in October 2017. Previously, Coyle led the Maryland Hospital Association for nine years, where she played a leading role in reframing the hospital payment system in Maryland and moving to a value-based methodology. Maryland is now considered a national leader in health care policy and innovation.

Prior to 2008, Coyle spent 20 years in senior policy positions with the American Hospital Association (AHA), including 11 years as the senior vice president of policy, where she served as a national media spokesperson and led AHA’s policy development and strategy planning activities. Earlier in her career, she worked for the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, D.C. 

 

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Intelligent Systems to Deliver Value-Based Care

Barry Bittman, MD
CEO, Institute for Innovative Healthcare

Barry Bittman is a neurologist, author, researcher, and population health innovator who co-developed SpeedTrack’s Population Health Decision Support program.

Bittman’s health care initiatives include the development of community care networks and accountable care organizations, as well as the optimization of medical practice workflows and continuous-care protocols for hospitals, health systems and physicians throughout the nation.

As former chief population health officer and senior vice president for Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Allegheny Health Network, Bittman designed and introduced numerous evidence-based continuous care models for improving patient outcomes and care experiences, while reducing potentially preventable costs.

Bittman is CEO at the Institute for Innovative Healthcare and resides at Hilton Head Island, S.C.

 

Jeff Pratt
President/CEO, SpeedTrack

Jeff Pratt is president/CEO at SpeedTrack, an Orange County-based software company.  SpeedTrack delivers innovative solutions for the health care, law enforcement and automotive industries based on its patented Guided Information Access software. 

Pratt and his team worked closely with Barry Bittman on the development and refinement of the Population Health Decision Support program. Prior to joining SpeedTrack, he served in risk-management positions in the financial services industry including as chief risk officer for three publicly-traded companies.

Pratt earned a bachelor’s degree in biological science and an MBA with emphasis on IT strategy from UC Irvine.

 

Organizing Bundled Payment for Continuous Improvement

Gray Miller
President/CEO, Titanium Healthcare, LLC

Gray Miller founded Titanium Healthcare, a medical management company in California specializing in performance-improvement and risk-bearing in health care systems.

Miller’s experience includes diverse senior leadership positions. He served as CEO with Intercede Health in Houston, as general manager with Geriatric Care Services in Minnesota, and as a senior vice president with GE Long Term Care Insurance Division in San Rafael. Prior experience includes time as Six Sigma group director with GE Insurance Holdings in London and as nuclear programs test director with CAE-Link in Silver Spring, Md.

Miller holds expertise in measurement systems and large-scale project management. He is a graduate of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Engineering Program, has a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Maryland, is a graduate of GE’s Financial Management Program and Management Development Course and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Quality Leader.

 

Jamie Chang, MD
Chief Clinical Operations Officer, CHA Hollywood Presbyterian

Jamie Chang is an emergency medicine physician and clinical operations consultant who serves as chief clinical operations officer at CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. In the role, he supervised the design and implementation of the facility’s Continuing Care Program, which aligns incentives to manage patients post-discharge as part of the hospital’s BPCI-Advanced initiative. He also sees patients in Kaiser Permanente EDs.

Chang previously worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, where he focused on clinical operations improvement for health systems domestically and abroad. He has also served the World Health Organization in Geneva on the Global Health Workforce Alliance, and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.

Chang graduated from Princeton University with a degree in economics, earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

 

Breaking Down Continuum of Care Silos for Behavioral Health and Homeless Patients

Joe Avelino, RN
CEO, College Medical Center, Long Beach

Joe Avelino is CEO at College Medical Center in Long Beach. He has also served more than 25 years with the U.S. Army, where he remains a lieutenant colonel – and coordinates medical care for injured soldiers returning from Iraq. Avelino has received the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal and the California Commendation Medal.

Avelino was appointed to the Board of Examiners for the Governor’s Quality Award, appears in Who’s Who Among American Nurses and has received a Certification for Professional Healthcare Quality. He earned his bachelor’s degree in nursing from American University and his master’s in health services administration from George Washington University.

 

Amanda Alcodia
CEO and Founder, Soaring Stronger

Amanda Alcodia is CEO and founder of Soaring Stronger, a firm specializing in placing complex patients in post-acute settings. She has served in business development roles at a variety of post-acute providers. 

Alcodia has extensive experience in business development, physician recruitment, contracting, admissions and access operations, health information management, patient relations and post-acute education.

She has presented at multiple events sponsored by Healthcare Executives of Southern California, Healthcare Financial Management Association and at graduate programs at USC, UC Riverside and Cal State Long Beach. Alcodia speaks on post-acute options, community health care partnerships and team building – among other topics.

 

Carolyn Caldwell
President/CEO, St. Mary Medical Center

Carolyn Caldwell heads St. Mary Medical Center Long Beach – a 389-bed academic facility that includes a Level II trauma center.

After spending more than 12 years on the clinical side of health care, Caldwell took the COO role at Dallas Southwest Medical Center. Then, shortly after accepting the position, she became interim CEO and coordinated the sale of the hospital to a physician group.

Caldwell then became COO at Medical Center of Arlington in Texas. During her tenure, she oversaw a $70 million construction project that included a three-story women’s center.

She was subsequently named CEO at Lee’s Summit Medical Center and then at Centerpoint Medical Center – both in Missouri.

 

Kelly Colopy
Director, Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services

Kelly Colopy is director at Long Beach’s Department of Health and Human Services. The department has over 300 employees in 30 programs working with community partners focused on improving health in the city of more than 460,000.

Colopy has spent the past 25 years in public health and social services at the state, county and local levels. Prior to Long Beach, she led the public mental health network in Salt Lake County, Utah, managing a network of 225 providers. She served seven years as associate director at Salt Lake County’s human services department, overseeing public health, aging services, behavioral health, community development, criminal justice services and jail re-entry, youth at-risk, and library services. Colopy also served with the State of Utah Division of Substance Abuse.

She holds a master’s degree in public policy from Duke University, and a bachelor’s in political science with a minor in mathematics from Smith College in Massachusetts.

 

Jim Rexwinkel
Deputy Chief of Operations, Long Beach Fire Department

Jim Rexwinkel manages the Long Beach Fire Department’s operations bureau, overseeing more than 375 firefighters and 23 fire stations – including fireboats, airport crash rescue, hazardous material response, tactical medics and search and rescue.

Rexwinkel started his fire service career in 1985, and by 2016 had advanced to deputy chief of operations. He now oversees the city’s Homelessness Education and Response Team, or HEART, and is fire department representative to the Long Beach Department of Civic Innovation’s Justice Lab.

Rexwinkle is a graduate of USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy Safe Communities Institute program and holds a bachelor’s degree in applied studies from Brandman University in Irvine.

 

Span of Attention and Span of Control Discussion: The Effective Use of Time for Health Care CEOs

Jim Finkelstein
President/CEO, FutureSense, LLC

FutureSense’s Jim Finkelstein has 38 years of consulting and corporate experience with a focus on people strategy, motivation and reward, compensation, and organizational assessment and transformation.

Finkelstein has served with Arthur Andersen, WF Corroon and The Wyatt Company, serving clients in a range of industries including health care and technology.

He is the author of FUSE: Making Sense of the New Co-Generational Workplace, is a blogger on HuffPost and can be followed on Twitter (@futuresense). Finkelstein serves on the advisory board for Sidestarter Ventures and is an adjunct faculty member for Sonoma State University’s executive MBA program.

He received his MBA in organization behavior and development from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s in psychology and economics from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

 

Matthew Gerlach
Executive Vice President & COO, CHOC Children’s

Matt Gerlach is executive vice president and COO at the Orange County-based system CHOC Children’s. He is responsible for operations at CHOC Children’s Hospital in Orange, CHOC Children’s at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, and CHOC Children’s Specialists – a medical foundation with more than 220 physicians.

Gerlach previously served as vice president and COO at Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center. He has also served on executive teams for Providence Health & Services, Kaiser Permanente, UCLA Medical Center, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, USC University Hospital, Citrus Valley Medical Center, and Beverly Hospital.

Gerlach has a MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a MPH degree – also from UCLA.

 

Kenneth McFarland
CEO, Fountain Valley Regional Medical Center, Tenet Healthcare

Kenn McFarland has served as CEO at Fountain Valley Medical Center for the past 18 years. Prior to Fountain Valley, he led Mission Hospital, a 552-bed acute care facility in Mission Viejo.

McFarland has experience in fiscal management, developing talent, creating and driving strategy, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, and assimilating newly-merged organizations. Above all, he has a deep knowledge of the Orange County health care market.

McFarland earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Cal Poly Pomona, an MBA from UC Irvine, and a credential from the California Health Leadership College. Additionally, he is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.

           

Lori J. Morgan, MD, MBA
President/CEO, Huntington Hospital

Prior to arriving at Huntington Hospital in 2017, Lori Morgan spent eight years as corporate vice president at Legacy Health in Portland, Ore.

She also served as president at Legacy’s largest facility in Portland – the 554-bed Legacy Emmanuel Medical Center – and as president and board chair at Unity Center for Behavioral Health. Unity Center is a psychiatric hospital and ED developed alongside Adventist Health, Kaiser Health and Oregon Health Sciences University. 

Prior to joining Legacy, Morgan served as medical director at Tacoma, Wash.’s Trauma Trust, where she developed a Level II trauma center. She also served as co-director of the surgical ICU and as trauma surgeon at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.

She earned her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine, then completed her surgical residency at Stanford University Medical Center, and her trauma-critical care fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. 

Morgan is a board-certified trauma surgeon and intensivist. She earned a MBA at Pacific Lutheran University – where she concentrated on technology and innovation management.

           

Jeremy Zoch, PhD
CEO, St. Joseph Hospital, Orange

Jeremy Zoch is CEO at St. Joseph Hospital, a 485-bed hospital in the city of Orange. He has served in the position since 2012. 

Prior, Zoch served as chief operating officer at Mercy Hospitals of Bakersfield. Before his career journey west, he worked as senior administrator for orthopaedics at the University of Maryland.

Zoch earned his PhD in health-related sciences and health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University 2011. He earned a master’s degree in Health Administration from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000. Zoch holds a bachelor’s in management from Iowa State.

 

Strategic Community Planning and Investments in Improving the Social Determinants of Health

Paul Craig
Chief Administrative Officer, Keck Medicine of USC

Paul Craig is chief administrative officer at Keck Medicine of USC. He serves as the CEO’s chief of staff and is responsible for multiple system departments, including patient relations, international medicine, community benefit and government relations – and USC’s Center for Health System Innovation.

Craig’s experience includes law and a career as a registered nurse. He came to USC in 2014, from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he was vice president for human resources. He spent nine years with the University of California, where he served with UC San Diego Health Sciences. Before UCSD, Craig filled the COO position at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco.

Craig earned his JD from DePaul University College of Law. He earned a bachelor’s degree in behavioral science from National University in Illinois and a diploma from the Evanston Hospital School of Nursing.

 

Erin Slack
Maternal Child and Adolescent Health Epidemiologist, Ventura County Public Health

Erin Slack has served Ventura County Public Health as a maternal, child, and adolescent health epidemiologist since 2011. Previously, she served as epidemiologist for a public health department in Michigan and for the Ventura County Office of Emergency Services. 

In her current role, Slack ensures that the department utilizes data to address the health needs of Ventura County residents across their lifespans. 

She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a MPH from Ohio State University.

 

Kelly Bruno
President/CEO, National Health Foundation

Kelly Bruno is a social service and health care executive with 25 years of service in the non-profit sector. She is president/CEO at National Health Foundation, a 501(c)3 community-based nonprofit – founded by the Hospital Association of Southern California.

Bruno leads a team of motivated professionals to address gaps in the health care delivery system by implementing innovative solutions. In the last few years, the organization has narrowed its focus on underserved communities and social determinants of health.

Bruno previously served as NHF’s COO and vice president of programs. Starting in 2007, she worked with Los Angeles County, public and private hospitals, and local organizations to double the number of recuperative care beds available to homeless patients discharged from hospitals.

NHF serves more than 750 clients each year and has estimated the cost-avoidance for hospitals associated with its programs at more than $38 million.

 

Chad Monk
Senior Program Manager for Community Engagement, National Health Foundation

Chad Monk is senior program manager for community engagement at National Health Foundation. In the role, he works to address health disparities through participatory action and research. Monk leads NHF’s community engagement team to advocate for communities and solve local issues.

Monk and his team address neighborhood-level barriers to healthy living – primarily food access and the built environment. He is passionate about achieving health equity and believes that empowering communities to make policy, system and environmental change is the most effective way to achieve this goal.

Monk previously coordinated YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles’ diabetes prevention program and was a community health educator for the Cedars-Sinai Healthy Habits program.

Monk earned a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and health from Point Loma Nazarene University and a MPH with a focus in community health from Cal State Long Beach.

 

George West
Vice President of Mission, Central Coast Service Area, Dignity Health

George West is vice president of mission for Dignity Health’s Central Coast service area – which includes Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Following a career in college teaching and in business administration at JPL, he joined St. John’s Hospitals in 1998 as chaplain. West also served as director of spiritual care, as vice president for mission and as bioethicist for the St. John’s Ethics Committee. 

West holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and theology, and earned a master’s in philosophy from the Claremont Graduate University. Additionally, he holds a JD from Whittier College School of Law. He has specialized training in crisis pastoral care and caregiver compassion fatigue.    

His passion for strategic community planning revolves around social determinants of health.

West is coauthor of a groundbreaking ethnic population-focused Community Health Needs Assessment.

 

Agenda

The Next Wave

HASC Annual Meeting, May 1-3, 2019, La Quinta Resort & Spa

AGENDA

Wednesday, May 1

8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.                       Golf Outing

4 – 5:45 p.m.                               Board Meeting
                                                    Special Session:  Behavioral Medicine

6 – 9 p.m.                                    Welcome Reception

Thursday, May 2

7 – 8:15 a.m.                               Buffet Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 a.m.                          Welcome from HASC CEO and
                                                    2019 Chair

8:45 – 9:40 a.m.                          Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of 
                                                    Doing What Couldn’t Be Done 
                                                    Mick Ebeling, CEO & Founder,
                                                    Not Impossible

10 – 10:50 a.m.                           How Amazon, Google and Apple Plan to
                                                    Change the Face of Health Care

                                                    Ron Galloway, Author and filmmaker

11 – 12:30 p.m.                           First Concurrent Breakouts

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.                        Lunch

1:45 – 3:15 p.m.                          Second Concurrent Breakouts

5:30 – 8 p.m.                               Strolling Dinner and Sponsor Exhibit: 
                                                    Vintage Boardwalk Theme

Friday, May 3                                      

9 – 9:45 a.m.                               Health Care in California: What’s the
                                                    Next Wave?
                                                    George Greene, Esq.,
                                                    President/CEO, HASC                                        

9:45 a.m.                                     Making Mental Health Essential Health
                                                    Patrick J. Kennedy, former 
                                                    Congressman, Founder, One Mind

For more information visit and to register:

http://www.hasc.org/2019-annual-meeting

Breakout Sessions:

• Breaking Down Silos in the Continuum of Care for Behavioral Health and Homeless Patients
• Span of Attention and Span of Control:  A Discussion of the Effective Use of Time for Healthcare CEOs
• Person Centered Care After Hospitalization
• Strategic Community Planning and Investments in Improving the Social Determinants of Health
• What You Don’t Know Can Be Hazardous to the Health of Your Hospital:  How to Improve Quality While Securing a Healthy Bottom Line
• ​Organizing Bundled Payment for Continuous Improvement

2019 Sponsors

HASC thanks all of its confirmed 2019 Annual Meeting sponsors.

Strategic Partner                                                 

Toyon Associates, Inc                                    

Wipfli LLP/HFS Consultants, Inc.                                                                

Anthem Blue Cross                                                                                     

Platinum Sponsor                                             

Blue Shield of California                                 

Health Net of California                                     

OneLegacy                                                          

UnitedHealthcare                                                                

Gold Sponsor                                                     

Aetna                                                                  

Allied Universal                                                  

ApolloMD                                                           

c|a ARCHITECTS                                                 

CAPAssurance                                                    

Cigna                                                                 

Collective Medical                                              

Commerce Bank                                                 

EMCOR Services Mesa Energy Systems            

Envision Physician Services                                

Healthcare Benefits Alliance (HBA)                  

HealthComp                                                      

HSS Inc.                                                             

Interstate Rehab                                                

Keenan HealthCare Services                              

L.A. Care Health Plan                                        

LANES                                                                 

Managed Care Advisory Group                          

Marsh & McLennan Agency                               

Pegasystems                                                      

Radiology Partners                                             

Sound Physicians

SpeedTrack                                              

SUNRx           

VEP Healthcare                                                                                           

Contributor                                                         

Alliant Insurance Services Inc.

American Career College                                                                 

BETA Healthcare Group                                     

Boulder Associates Architects         

Cope Health Solutions                 

CSS Consulting Group                                        

Hooper Lundy & Bookman, P.C.     

Huron                   

Merritt Hawkins                                                 

Moss Adams                                                     

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP               

Pacific Medical Buildings LLC                            

Tagnos, Inc.                                                       

TeamHealth                                                      

The Rokos Group                                               

Veralon     

Vituity                                                        

Vizient, Inc.