Taking Your Practice to the Next Level: Management Strategies for Challenging Times

Course Directors:
John Nelson, MD, MHM
Overlake Hospital Medical Center
Nelson Flores Hospital Medicine Consultants

Leslie A. Flores, MHA
Nelson Flores Hospital Medicine Consultants
SHM's Senior Advisor, Practice Management

Course Overview:
The world of hospital medicine is evolving rapidly, and so are your needs as a hospital medicine leader. Beyond the core principles of staffing, scheduling and compensation, you are increasingly facing a new set of challenges related to managing growth and complexity – including proactively addressing an ever-expanding scope of practice, ensuring that management and work flow systems are scalable as the practice grows, and engaging hospitalists around organizational goals. Building on the foundation of SHM's successful "Best Practices in Managing a Hospital Medicine" course, this brand new pre-course gives experienced hospital medicine leaders like you the tools you need to accelerate your program to a new level in today's ever more challenging environment. Whether you are a physician leader, a practice administrator, or a healthcare executive, this program will offer multiple perspectives about how to meet many of today's most perplexing challenges, and will equip you with the practical information and tools you need to be positioned for success going forward.

Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Design and implement tactics for improving workload distribution, patient flow, communication, and multi-disciplinary collaboration.
• Assess current trends in hospitalist scope of practice, and develop plans for proactively evolving the group's scope of work in collaboration with other specialties.
• Enhance the group's effectiveness through improved internal governance, robust practice support staff and systems, and strategies for fostering a 'culture of ownership'.