Golf Check-in and Registration

Lake Breeze Golf Club
6333 Ball Prairie Rd
Winneconne, WI 54986
 
920-582-7585
lakebreezegolf.com                                                      
 
 

Lake Breeze Golf Club

Golf

Lake Breeze Golf Club
6333 Ball Prairie Rd
Winneconne, WI 54986

920-582-7585
lakebreezegolf.com

 

Lake Breeze Golf Club

Pre-Conference Registration and Dinner Reception
Hilton Appleton Paper Valley
333 West College Avenue
Appleton, WI  54911

Register early for the conference and receive your nametag and attendee materials before heading to the dinner reception.

Dinner reception with food stations, along with hosted bar, will be held for all conference attendees. Guests are welcome at $60/each.

 

Conference Foyer and Grand Ballroom

Registration, Breakfast and Visiting Exhibitors                                                 
 
 

Conference Foyer and Grand Ballroom

Welcome

Chris Brabant
Chair, WHA Council on Rural Health
President and CEO, HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital


 

Grand Ballroom

Humbitious – The Power of Low-Ego & High-Drive Leadership

Dr. Amer Kaissi

In leadership, humility is not a weakness it is actually a strength, and it can be a superpower when combined with ambition. Building on his experience as an executive coach, research from organizational and sport teams, and stories of successful (and not-so-successful) leaders in business & government, Amer shows why self-aware, appreciative, open-minded and ambitious leaders can lead their teams and organizations to high performance, and why self-centered ones can only have short-term success. He provides specific take-home behaviors for leaders to implement immediately and transform the way they lead.

 

Grand Ballroom

Break and Visiting Exhibitors

 

Grand Ballroom

The State of Health Care in Wisconsin

Eric Borgerding, President and CEO, Wisconsin Hospital Association
Tim Size, Executive Director, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative


Eric Borgerding and Tim Size team up, once again, to discuss the current state of health care in Wisconsin, how health care providers are affected and how health care can affect the current environment. 

 

Grand Ballroom

Lunch and Visiting Exhibitors

 

Grand Ballroom

Breakout Session 1

1A – Overcoming Behavioral Health Challenges in Rural Hospital Markets

Stephanie Weatherly, DNP, PMH RN-BC, FACH, Chief Clinical Officer
Psychiatric Medical Care

 
Rural health systems across America struggle to meet the growing demands for behavioral healthcare in their communities leading to delays in patient care, overutilization of emergency departments, overstressed staff, and reimbursement challenges. This presentation explores successful programs that have overcome barriers to behavioral healthcare, both clinically and financially, in rural markets. These barriers include a lack of mental health providers and stigma surrounding mental health. Case studies will be shared from four different care models used in rural health systems: Inpatient psychiatry, Intensive outpatient psychiatry, Rural health clinics, and ED management. These case studies examine the sustained change that occurs with behavioral health programming such as reduction in ED throughput, reduced recidivism, reduced psychosomatic PCP visits, polypharmacy reduction, positive community support for the program, and positive financial outcomes. Participants will develop an understanding of the case studies and come away with actionable steps to improve behavioral healthcare access in their communities. They’ll be able to evaluate presented solutions to determine which would be the most beneficial in their healthcare market.


1B - CommYOUnity: Healthy Buildings + Healthy People

Jen Voigt, Senior Design Architect and Dave Hubka, Practice Leader – Sustainability
EUA


We’ve all heard of sick building syndrome, but this session will focus on the flip side: Exciting ways our buildings can actually make our people and communities healthier. WELL is an approach that applies the science of physical and social environments to benefit people's health, well-being and productivity. It’s uniquely positioned at the convergence of sustainability, organizational culture and community impact. We’ll talk through the attributes that make up WELL buildings and how our hospitals and clinics can have a healthier and more engaged workforce by focusing on even a few of these components. Equally applicable to new and existing buildings, there are scalable strategies for rural healthcare campuses to support inclusive, integrated, resilient communities.


1C - Setting Up Your Emergency Department Processes To Successfully Navigate EMTALA  (Board of Trustee Track)


Sarah E. Coyne, Partner and Jon R. Kammerzelt, Partner
Quarles & Brady LLP

 
For rural hospitals with limited resources and the current state of decreased options for transfer, EMTALA becomes a minefield.  This presentation identifies the hard questions and provides practical solutions.  What do you do with a patient needing a higher level of care but nobody to accept that patient?  When do you need to report to CMS?  What do you do with physicians who are untimely or absent while on call? When and where do the EMTALA obligations trigger and which aspects of your campus are affected?  We will provide these answers and more, including helpful and user friendly documents.

 

Lawrence

Break and Visiting Exhibitors

 

Grand Ballroom

Breakout Session 2

2A – Program Evaluation of MOVIN® in a Rural Hospital Setting

Mary Lane-Peot, RN, BSN, DNP Student
Kelly Sutherland, BSN, RN, Acute Care Coordinator

Tomah Health


The importance of mobility has been witnessed and documented for centuries yet mobility orders are the most frequently omitted during an inpatient hospital stay. Further, older adults are at a particularly high risk for functional decline and falls following a hospital discharge. This session will explore one rural hospital’s remedy for this concern by going back to the basics of mobility through the introduction of an inpatient mobility program entitled MOVIN®. Topics of discussion will include the methodology and results of an outcomes-based program evaluation during MOVIN®’s implementation focused on readiness for hospital discharge and recommendations for future mobility program implementation.



2B - 340B Program: Current and Future State

Todd Nova, Attorney
Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.

Jon Hoelter, VP of Federal and State Relations
WHA

 
This presentation will provide an overview of the current state of the 340B Program, addressing both 340B Program and related Medicare, Medicaid and private payor considerations. In addition to 340B Program and related "in the weeds" standards, the speakers will also address the future of the Program, including a discussion of federal and state legislative activities affecting its short-term efficacy and long-term viability. Finally, the speakers will discuss various real-world considerations related to the program, including state of the art strategic implementation approaches and practical business, compliance and legal considerations.    


2C - Community Development Opportunities, Challenges and Tools (Board of Trustee Track)
       
Brion Winters, Attorney and Chris Smith, Attorney
von Briesen & Roper

 
Rural hospitals are increasingly aware of the benefits of community development on their mission as nonprofit organizations.  This session will explore current opportunities for rural communities to open a new world of development and will discuss partnership trends between developers, local governments, hospitals, and other non-traditional entities, including affordable housing development.

 

Great Hall

Break and Visiting Exhibitors
 

Grand Ballroom

Breakout Session 3
3A – The “How” of Effective Workplace Safety in a Rural Setting

Matthew J Wolack
Crisis Prevention Institute

 
Rural Health facilities have more limited resources when it comes to curtailing workplace violence for their staff. Join Matthew J Wolak as he presents on ways to make your workplace safety plan effective despite the lack thereof.  


3B - Using AI Smart Search and Summarization to Reduce Clinician’s Cognitive Load

Randy Brandt, PA-C, Primary Care Physician Assistant, Mile Bluff Medical Center (Mauston, WI)
Christine Silva, MEDITECH
 
Clinicians today are overwhelmed with the volume and variety of patient data they’re expected to consume before making medical decisions.  As a result, they must either spend exorbitant amounts of time reviewing data from a variety of sources and in different formats, or disregard it altogether and potentially overlook vital information. Mile Bluff Medical Center has partnered with Google Health and its EHR vendor MEDITECH to launch powerful search and summarization functionality that leverages Google’s AI, Natural Language Model, and intelligent search capabilities to surface data from their EHR, legacy platform, and additional sources, including unstructured data, scanned documents and even handwritten notes. It then sorts, summarizes, and ranks results by relevance for quick review, allowing clinicians to see all available information for a patient related to any topic, term, or medical concept from one place — inside the EHR within existing workflows — creating a longitudinal view of a patient's health history that reduces cognitive load on frontline providers.

 
3C - Hot Topics & Trends in Labor and Employment Law (Board of Trustee Track)
        
Melissa Caulum Williams, Senior Counsel
Husch Blackwell, LLP

 
This presentation will be an overview of current Wisconsin and federal employment law trends for the audience, including but not limited to workplace mental health & disability leaves and laws, employment litigation trends, internal investigations: best practices, unionization: how to respond, NLRB update and emerging trends in technology, AI and the workplace.

 

Rosewood/Linden

Adjourn
 

Corporate Member Exhibiting Showcase and Dinner Reception


Hilton Appleton Paper Valley
333 West College Avenue
Appleton, WI  54911

Dinner reception with food stations, along with hosted bar, will be held in the Grand Ballroom for all conference attendees. 

 

Grand Ballroom

Breakfast and Visiting Exhibitors
 

Grand Ballroom

Welcome

Chris Brabant
Chair, WHA Council on Rural Health
President and CEO, HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital
 

Grand Ballroom

The Rise of Smart Threats: How AI is Changing Ransomware and Social Engineering

Kevin Bong, Director of Cybersecurity Consulting and Brad Lutgen, Cybersecurity Leader & Partner, Ghostscale When it comes to cybersecurity, there are tried and true ways for hospitals to detect suspicious activity. However, those key indicators are becoming more and more difficult to identify with the acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI). M3 Insurance, and their partners at Ghostscale, team up to showcase a real-time example of how simple it has become for bad actors to create social engineering and ransomware schemes, and to share tips and best practices that hospitals should consider adopting in this new cyber landscape. M3 has unique experience serving hospitals with their cyber liability needs. We currently work on the cyber liability lines of insurance for four WHA members (Western WI Health, Mile Bluff, Richland Hospital, and Stoughton Health), as well as the WHA itself.

Grand Ballroom

Break and Visiting Exhibitors

 

Grand Ballroom

Never Wrestle With Pigs

Lavon Gray

 

Conflict is a reality of life. Unfortunately, we have a tendency to fight battles that aren’t all that important, which leaves us too tired to fight the ones we need to win. This keynote uses humor to focus on various personality types found in the workplace and how leaders can effectively navigate conflict. Never Wrestle with Pigs always leaves audiences laughing and inspired to strengthen their relational and conflict resolution skills.

 

Grand Ballroom

Adjourn