Program Components

Overview

HR MedCon & Expo is a 3-day conference and exposition focusing on today's crucial issues that face healthcare's HR leaders and management teams. Built by and for the healthcare leaders who are responsible for creating patient-focused organizations through highly-trained, motivated, and loyal workforces, this conference delves into the most critical business and human imperatives of HR leaders and management teams and offers real solutions from best practice organizations, leading hospitals, and best-in-class product and service providers.

HR MedCon focuses on strategy and execution, designed for the director-level and above, the conference curriculum is for healthcare leaders and decision-makers. The latest research in the best led hospitals will be a spotlight of the conference. Recent research conducted by Linkage to uncover America’s Best-Led Hospitals is the foundation of the program design and case studies presented by the selected award-winning organizations will provide valuable benchmark information to all healthcare leaders who strive for excellence in their organization.

Partnerships with associations like MHHRA, ASHHRA, The Human Capital Institute, and other national and regional HR and healthcare associations create a highly energized and promoted event—a buzz in the community that brings together the best and brightest in the industry.

400+ leaders in HR from hospitals and other healthcare providers will attend the core conference; an additional 800+ attendees are expected at the exposition and select keynotes. The population of attendees include the following titles from both healthcare providers and organizations that service the healthcare industry:

• presidents, CAOs, CFOs, CEOs, CIOs
• vice presidents, directors, and managers of HR
• physicians, chief medical officers, chief nursing officers
• medical directors, nursing directors, clinical directors
• nursing and medical staff recruiters
• vice presidents, directors, and managers of IT, finance, operations, IS
• vice presidents, directors, and managers of OD, training, leadership development
• vice presidents, directors, and managers of union/employee relations

Pre-Summit Workshops

Pre-Summit Workshops will be held on Sunday, September 18, 2005, 1:00 – 5:00PM.

• Pre-Summit Workshop #1: Center for Talent Retention, "Engaging & Retaining HealthCare Employees"
• Pre-Summit Workshop #2: Sundance Consulting, "HR's Role in Guiding Constant Change"
• Pre-Summit Workshop #3: Leonardo Inghilleri, "Creating a Culture of Service Excellence"

Keynote Speakers

• Adam M. Robinson, Jr., Rear Admiral, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy; Commander, National Naval Medical Center; and Chief, Navy Medical Corps
• Tommy Thompson, recently retired (January 2005) Head of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Bernard Kouchner, co-Founder and former President of Nobel Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders; former Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (1999-2001); former Minister of Health, France (2001-2002)
• Quint Studer, Founder of Studer Group and author of Hardwiring Excellence
• David Ulrich, Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan & Co-Director Michigan's Human Resource Executive Program, and Advanced Human Resource Executive Program; author of over 90 book chapters and articles, including Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results and HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
• Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School Professor and author of Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Players, and Policy-Makers and Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry

Best-Practice Case Studies

Linkage's 2005 HR MedCon & Expo will provide access to a variety of best practice organizations that have received the highest honors from respected industry publications and organizations. Executives from these award-winning companies will present their best practices and engage audiences of executive-level peers in active exploration of their best strategies and execution methods. Delegates will come away from each session with applicable tools and relevant benchmarks that they can use to implement practical solutions to their business imperatives.

This year's Best Practice Case Studies, including those from Award Winning Organizations, will include:

• St Luke’s Episcopal Health System on “Tools for Improving Employee Recruitment and Retention”
• Boston Medical Center on “Enterprise Training and Implementation Solutions for Revenue Cycle Management” and “Creating a Culture of Accountability”
• Anonymous Federal Healthcare Agency on “Creating an Organizational Model for Leadership Development”
• Health First, Inc. on “Integrated HR Strategies that Drive Competitive Recruitment and Retention”
• Griffin Hospital on “Achieving Cost Containment and Employee Satisfaction Simultaneously”
• Saint Elizabeth Health System on “Giving Your Organization a Competitive Edge through Leadership Development at All Levels”
• Baylor Health Care System on “Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Cost Containment within a Health System Workforce”
• Lee Memorial Health System on “Best Practices in Workforce Management Systems”
• Gila Regional Medical Center on “Creating a Culture of Adaptability through Leadership Excellence”
• Children’s Health System of Birmingham on “Silver Bullets: Designing Compensation and Benefit Systems that Hit Their Strategic Mark”
• Alegent Health on “Workforce Management Initiatives that Drive Real Results in Employee Satisfaction”
• Kettering Medical Center Network on “Effective Strategies for Aligning Cultures and Achieving Successful Mergers”
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center on “Creative and Effective Recruiting and Retention Strategies”
• Palisades Medical Center on “Overcoming Your HR Challenges with Effective Labor Management Strategies”
• Truman Medical Centers on “How Top Health Care Organizations Retain Talent in a Tight Labor Market”
• Dana Farber Cancer Institute on “Diversity and Long Term Culture Change"
• Mount Sinai Hospital on “Using Technology to Enhance Organizational Effectiveness, Implementing Performance Management"
• Continuum Health Partners on “Outsourcing the Tedious In Recruitment and Improving the Bottom Line"
• Memorial Health University Medical Center on “Achieving Organizational Growth Through Team Member Engagement"
• CHRISTUS St. Joseph Hospital on “Leveraging Bidding Technology as a Retention and Recruitment Strategy"

Learning Teams

Each participant in the HR MedCon & Expo will select a Learning Team to participate in as part of their core learning process throughout the HR MedCon & Expo. Learning Teams are peer groups of leaders who come together to explore common responsibilities, interests, and organizational challenges and to collaboratively drive innovative solutions to their top priority human resources challenges. The Learning Teams will join together at Linkage's HR MedCon & Expo for multiple sessions led by an expert thought leader in that specific subject area. You will meet three times throughout the Conference with your Learning Teams. The first session is designed to allow peer executives share challenges and goals associated with the organizational transformation that you have each come to the HR MedCon & Expo to learn more about. The second session will be a blueprinting session, in which you consider the various leadership lessons and best practice strategies that you have learned during sessions at the Summit and use them to think critically about your current state, your desired future state, and what you need to accomplish to get there. The final Learning Team session will be designed to provide you with a forum to develop and share your proposed solution with peer practitioners and the expert thought leader who is leading your Learning Team session, consider potential challenges along the way, and walk away with action plan to bring back to your organization.

How are the Learning Teams Organized?
Learning Teams will be organized according to the key imperatives of senior executives in the following functional areas:

• Corporate Human Resources
• Recruiting & Retention
• Learning, Training, & Development
• Compensation & Benefits
• Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, and Change
• Employee & Labor Relations
• Diversity
• HRIS

• Leadership & Management Development
• Improved Quality of Care
• Performance Measurement & Management
• Compensation, Benefits, & Incentives
• Diversity and Cultural Competence

Be sure to check your desired Learning Team topic when registering.

Strategy Briefing Session

Learn about new and innovative tools, technologies, and strategies during 50-minute briefing sessions presented by an executive expert from industry product and service providers. If you would like to lead a strategy briefing session, please view our sponsor opportunities and benefits.

Roundtable Discussions

Product and service providers that specialize in healthcare human resources will host Roundtable Discussions on their area of expertise during the conference. Take advantage of the opportunity to leverage the thought leadership of these experts, who have come to the HR MedCon & Expo to meet with you and share their knowledge. If you would like to lead a Roundtable Discussion, please view our sponsor opportunities and benefits.

Social and Networking Events

In addition to receptions and other networking events that take place onsite throughout HR MedCon & Expo, through which you will meet with and learn from not only your peers in the industry, industry experts, thought leaders, and product and service providers, Linkage will host a variety of other optional value-added learning and social offerings.

Charles Riverboat Outing
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2005, 7:00PM

The Charles River is one of America’s most beautiful rivers and offers spectacular views of the Boston and Cambridge skylines. The Charles Riverboat Company is Boston’s only riverboat company offering private charters and sightseeing excursions along the Charles River and Boston Harbor. Their vessels have the unique ability to voyage through the river’s waterway lock system out to Boston Harbor and the ocean beyond. Wrap up your first day at the 2005 HR MedCon & Expo by joining your fellow delegates on the evening of Monday, September 19, 2005 for a double-decker bus tour to the Charles River Esplanade, followed by a two hour cruise.

Add an additional $50 to your registration fee to participate in this outing, which includes the bus tour, cruise, and light hors d’oeuvres served on the cruise. Beverages will be available through a cash bar. Please see registration page for enrollment details.

NETWORKING DINNER WITH YOUR PEERS

If you choose to participate in a Learning Team, on the evening of Tuesday, September 20, 2005, Linkage will provide you with the opportunity to build relationships with the other delegates on your team in a social setting. We will make reservations for your group at one of Boston’s fabulous restaurants near the event location, so that you can relax and get to know each other.

Linkage will arrange a reservation for your Learning Team at an area restaurant. The cost of the meal and drinks are not included. Please see registration form for details.

If you would like more information about sponsoring a networking event, please view our sponsor opportunities and benefits.

Pre registration for this event is now closed. You may still register onsite. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Customer Service at 781.402.5555