This conference challenges conventional wisdom and provides practical solutions and strategies to overcome the escalating healthcare workforce crisis. Packed with new ideas and real-world solutions, our faculty shows you how to measure and enhance the effectiveness of your current HR initiatives to drive system-wide employee and patient satisfaction and prepare you for this fast approaching "Perfect Storm."

Hospital Leaders Address the Top 10 Challenges Cited by Over 200 Healthcare Human Resource Professionals

Developing and leveraging accurate metrics that genuinely reflect the unique character of healthcare human resources
Measuring with precision the value and effectiveness of your HR initiatives
Improving succession planning before the retirement boom adversely impacts knowledge transfer
Leveraging non-traditional talent pools to identify and cultivate new leaders
Reducing turnover and increasing employee retention by engaging your workforce
Applying process improvement tools such as Lean or Six Sigma to HR initiatives
Capitalizing on the relationship between employee performance and patient satisfaction
Improving HCAHPS scores to significantly increase reimbursements and bottom-line revenue
Reducing reliance on supplemental staffing agencies by increasing the effectiveness of recruitment and retention efforts
Quantifying HR’s contribution to a hospital’s bottom-line results
What Makes This Conference Different? Return Home with an Action Plan

This event is 100% focused on best practices and case studies on how to become an employer of choice to recruit and retain the talent you need to qualify as a top performer. The distinguished speaker faculty provides “in-the-trenches” solutions and strategies for measuring and improving HR initiatives that will enable you to drive improvement in employee and patient satisfaction. You will return home with an action plan for enhancing the role of HR in your hospital.

About the Networking

The conference is designed to achieve a balance of delivering high quality content together with networking activities to exchange ideas and best practices. Networking activities take place during breakfast and lunch as well as during key breaks scheduled in the agenda.

Don’t miss our Breakout Work Sessions – Benchmarking & Standardizing Metrics – on Thursday, May 1st at 3:30. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to network and compare notes with your healthcare HR counterparts to focus on the specific "metrics that matter" to you. Compare how your peers collect, report, and evaluate performance metrics and develop appropriate benchmarks for the results.

Healthcare Facilities Early Bird Rate Register by 3/28/08 Conference only: $1295 Conference + 1 workshop: $1595 Conference + 2 workshops: $1895 Standard Rate Register by 5/02/07 Conference only: $1595 Conference + 1 workshop: $1895 Conference + 2 workshops: $2195 Register by 12/7/07 Conference only: $1595 Conference + 1 workshop: $1895 Conference + 2 workshops: $2195