Education

2009 Education Calendar At A Glance

• 7 - Maximizing Your Emergency Department: Five Critical Strategies for Operational, Clinical and Financial Performance --Strategy 2: Leadership During Times of Change (Webinar Series)
  
• 8 - CMS Restraint and Seclusion Guidelines (Webinar)
  
• 15 - Maximizing & Protecting Your Hospital's Revenue Integrity--Part 2: ER & Hospital-Based Clincs - Challenges & Hidden Revenue Strategies (Three-Part Audio Conference Series)
  
• 15 - Focus on CPT Brown-Bag Series: Part 6 - Surgery: Neurological and Sense Organ System Coding (Audioconference)
  
• 15 - Understanding, Improving and Community Quality of Care: Session 2--The Quality Metrics that Matter: Collect Less. Impact More. (Webinar)
  
• 16 - The New Joint Commission Restraint and Seclusion Standards (Webinar)
  
• 17 - Maximizing & Protecting Your Hospital's Revenue Integrity--Part 3: Observation - The Challenges of Coverage & Compliance (Three-Part Audio Conference Series)
  
• 21 - Surviving the RAC: Fighting Back Against Medical Necessity Denials (Webinar)
  
• 23 - Maximizing Your Emergency Department: Five Critical Strategies for Operational, Clinical and Financial Performance --Strategy 3: Patient Satisfaction in the ED--Implementing the Triad of Excellence (Webinar Series)
  
• 24 - Wisconsin Chapter of ACHE: Building a Foundation for a Culture on Your Journey to Excellence (Stevens Point)
  

• 5 - Meeting Compliance with the 2009 Joint Commission Record of Care Chapter (Webinar)
  
• 5 - Maximizing Your Emergency Department: Five Critical Strategies for Operational, Clinical and Financial Performance --Strategy 4: Protecting Your Employees, Physicians & Patients from Violence in the ED (Webinar Series)
  
• 6 - Medicare Payment Bundling and Hospitals: Strategies for Surviving and Prospering (Webinar)
  
• 11 - WHA's Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Forum (Madison or via teleconference)
  
• 11 - The Joint Commission Tracers: Preparing for the Survey Process (Webinar)
  
• 12 - Understanding, Improving and Community Quality of Care: Session 3--The Journey to Clinical Excellence: Five Essential Strategies (Webinar Series)
  
• 13 - Case Management Assignment Protocol (CMAP): An Answer to the Problem of Claims Denials for Unnecessary Admissions (Webinar)
  
• 20 - Maximizing Your Emergency Department: Five Critical Strategies for Operational, Clinical and Financial Performance --Strategy 5: Leveraging LEAN and Six Sigma in Your Emergency Department (Webinar Series)
  

• 22 - Understanding, Improving and Community Quality of Care: Session 4--Health Care Transparency and Consumerism: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (Webinar)
  
• 23-25 - WHA Annual Convention, Lake Geneva

• 19-20 - Wisconsin Quality & Safety Forum, Wisconsin Dells

• 13 - IPPS 2009 Update (Webinar)
  
• 15 - Harnessing Social Media in Health Care (Webinar)
  
• 20 - Inpatient Rehabilitation: Facing the Future (Webinar)
  
• 20 - DNV Accreditation - An Alternative Deeming Authority for Hospitals (Audioconference)
  
• 2 - DNV Accreditation Series - Part 1 (Audioconference)
  
• 20 - Wisconsin Chapter of ACHE: The Best of Times...Worst of Times: A Look Ahead to 2009 (Oshkosh)
  
• 21 - Preparing for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and Other Labor and Employment Law Initiatives (Webinar)
  
• 27 - DNV Accreditation Series - Part 1 (Audioconference) (rescheduled from January 20)
  
• 27 - Continuous Service Readiness: Best Practices for Joint Commission Surveys (Webinar)
  
• 27 - Hospital/Physician Contracts and Stark: How to Stay Out of Trouble (Webinar)
  

• 3 - DNV Accreditation Series - Part 2 (Audioconference)
  
• 10 - DNV Accreditation Series - Part 3 (Audioconference)
  
• 10 - Conducting Your Own RAC Audit (Webinar)
  
• 10 - Making the Business Case for Quality Improvement (Webinar)
  
• 12 - RAC Attack: What Every Hospital Needs to Know (Part 1 - Tools to Complete and Internal Risk Assessment)(Webinar)
  
• 16 - DNV Accreditation Series - Part 4 (Audioconference)
  
• 18 - Focus on CPT Brown-Bag Series: Part 1 - Coding for Infusions/Injections and Chemotherapy (Audioconference)
  
• 19 - Assessing Fair Market Value in Hospital/Physician Arrangements: What Hospital Executives Need to Know (Webinar)
  
• 19 - The Joint Commission's 2009 Fire & Life Safety Standards (Webinar)
  
• 26 - Organized Labor and the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) Battlefield (Webinar)
  
• 26 - RAC Attack: What Every Hospital Needs to Know (Part 2 - Utilizing Observation to Reduce Exposure with One-Day Stays)(Webinar)
  
• 27 - Grievances and Complaints: What Hospitals Should Know about CMS and Joint Commission Standards(Webinar)
  
• 27 - Wisconsin Chapter of ACHE: Federal and State Legislative Updates (Stevens Point)

• 3 - Making the MRI Suite Safe (Webinar)
  
• 4 - Global Health Care: Medical Tourism and Hospitals Without Borders (Webinar)
  
• 5 - DNV Healthcare and NAIHO - A New Choice for Hospital Accreditation (Webinar)
  
• 5 - CMS Changes - Advance Beneficiary Notice of Non-Coverage (ABN): Strategies to Protect Providers from Financial Liability (Webinar)
  
• 6 - Community Benefits Reporting Workshop (Wisconsin Dells)
  
• 10 - 2009 Update for Observation Services (Webinar)
  
• 10 - Is the Relationship Between Your Hospital and Your Medical Staff Sustainable? (Webinar)
  
• 10 - Red Flag Rules: Strategies for Implementing an Identity Theft Protection Program (Webinar)
  
• 11 - Learning from International Patient Safety (Webinar)
  
• 12 - Why Hospitals Should Participate in a Patient Safety Organization (Webinar)
  
• 12-13 - Health Care Administrative Professionals Conference (Green Bay)
  
• 13 - The Stark Law and Regulations in 2009: Coming into Compliance (Webinar)
  
• 13-14 - Physician Leadership Development Conference(Kohler)
  
• 17 - Ensuring Compliance with the Joint Commission's 2009 Hazardous Materials and Waste Standards (Webinar)
  
• 17 - Employee Free Choice Act--Part II: Card Check, Union Conflicts and the Implications for Your Hospital (Webinar)
  
• 18 - Focus on CPT Brown-Bag Series: Part 2 - Surgery: Integumentary System Coding (Audioconference)
  
• 19 - RAC Attack: What Every Hospital Needs to Know (Part 3 - An Operational Guide to the Appeal process)(Webinar)
  20 - Wisconsin Chapter of ACHE: Federal and State Legislative Updates (Stevens Point)
  
• 25 - Capital Market Update: What Hospitals Need to Consider During these Turbulent Times (Webinar)
  
• 26 - Preventing Denials: 12 Opportunities to Reduce the Denial Epidemic (Webinar)
  

• 1 - Advocacy Day (Madison)
  
• 2 - Aligning Physician Compensation with Strategy (Webinar)
  
• 8 - Service Line Development: One Size Doesn't Fit All (Webinar)
  
• 21 - Focus on CPT Brown-Bag Series: Part 3 - Surgery: Musculoskeletal System Coding (Audioconference)
  
• 21 - Compliance & Quality - Where the Rubber Hits the Road (Webinar)
  
• 21 - The ED Call Reimbursement Conundrum: Effective Strategies for Fair, Equitable and Sustainable Solutions (Webinar)
  
• 21 - Chargemasters: Understanding Revenue Codes (Webinar)
  
• 23 - Community Benefit Scorecard/Dashboard: Linking to Community & Hospital Goals (Webinar)
  
• 28 - The Joint Commission Tracers: Preparing for the Survey Process (Webinar)
  
• April 29-May 1 - W-ONE Annual Convention (Stevens Point)
  
• 30 - Making the Transition to Management (Webinar)
  

• 5 - EMTALA Changes: Here We Go Again! (Webinar)
  
• 7 - Innovative Behavioral Health Partnerships (Webinar)
  
• 7 - Wisconsin Health Care Employee Pride Program (Wisconsin Dells)
  
• 8 - The Joint Commission's New and Revised Accreditation Requirements (Webinar)
  
• 12 - Emergency Department: Coding, Billing and Reimbursement for APCs (Webinar)
  
• 12 - Wisconsin Chapter of ACHE: The Coming Era of Health Care Consolidation: Issues and Opportunities (Madison)
  
• 14 - Joint Commission Requirements: How to Stay Continuously Survey Ready (Webinar)
  
• 19 - The Joint Commission's New and Revised Accreditation Requirements (Webinar)
  
• 19 - Ensuring Compliance With The Revised 2009 Joint Commission Medication Management Standards (Webinar)
  
• 20 - Focus on CPT Brown-Bag Series: Part 4 - Surgery: Respiratory and Cardiothoracic Coding (Audioconference)
  
• 27 - Winning Strategies for Successfully Employing Physicians (Webinar)
  

• 2 - CMS Restraint and Seclusion Update (Webinar)
  
• 4 - Physician Integration Strategies for Rural Hospitals (Webinar)
  
• 4 - Preparing for the Life Safety Specialist During the Joint Commission Survey (Webinar)
  
• 9 - Injections, Infusions & Chemotherapy: Documentation, Coding & Reimbursement (Webinar)
  
• 17 - Focus on CPT Brown-Bag Series: Part 5 - Surgery: Digestive System Coding (Audioconference)
  
• 18 - Understanding, Improving and Community Quality of Care: Session 1--Gaining a Competitive Advantage in Tough Economic Times: Engaging Physicians to Achieve Top Cardiac Care (Webinar Series)
  
• 17-19 - Wisconsin Rural Health Conference (Wisconsin Dells)
  
• 19 - Wisconsin Chapter of ACHE: Future of Health Care Financing (Wisconsin Dells)
  
• 23 - Ensuring Compliance with CMS Medication & Pharmacy Hospital CoP Requirements (Webinar)
  
• 23 - Ready or Not: Here Comes the RAC - A Practical Readiness Guide (Webinar)
  
• 23 - Maximizing & Protecting Your Hospital's Revenue Integrity--Part 1: Charge Masters are Easy - It's the Charge Capture that's Tough (Three-Part Audio Conference Series)
  
• 23 - Maximizing Your Emergency Department: Five Critical Strategies for Operational, Clinical and Financial Performance --Strategy 1: Selecting, Developing & Retaining Strong Physician Leaders (Webinar Series)
  
• 24 - The Hospital-Employed Physician Enterprise: Maximizing Health Plan Contract Performance (Webinar)