2025 Convention Agenda – Draft with Columns
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET
General Session
Quality Improvement: Reducing Readmissions Through Enhanced Collaboration
PointClickCare
ACHE
Leading Strategic Change
Jim Austin, MPA/MURP
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Brown University, MHL
As the U.S. healthcare system undergoes profound transformation, healthcare leaders must adapt and evolve amidst their changing realities. This seminar will provide attendees with the ability to make solid decisions and optimize strategic changes when faced with uncertainty. Discover answers to critical questions such as which strategies will provide leaders with the ability to thrive during these uncertain times and what new investments and capabilities are needed to successfully lead strategic change. You will learn the four building blocks to good decision making and common decision traps. You will also be introduced to a scenario planning tool and a framework to help you develop future alternatives. Take away a simple four-step model to optimize execution and drive change.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize and overcome barriers to deal with the market uncertainties in the nation’s healthcare system.
- Gain successful models for driving change to improve your individual and organization’s capabilities.
- Discover and practice the stages of successful strategic execution, especially as related to culture change.
KONL
Inculcating a Culture of Regulatory Compliance
Rick Curtis, RN, MS, HACP
Chief Executive Officer
Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ)
This presentation provides practical real-world strategies that have shown to be effective in establishing a culture that supports continuous on-going compliance to regulations and improvement in quality.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to discuss the importance of organizational culture
- Identify the difference between formal and informal culture
- Interpret barriers to creating a successful culture
- Communicate how to inculcate a desired culture into the structural fabric of an organization
KAHA
Protecting Post Encounter Reviews: Case Law Update and Strategies
Wesley R. Butler, Esq.
Barnett Benvenuti & Butler
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
General Session
Managing Medicare Advantage
Kathy Reep
Senior Manager
Martie Ross
Principal
PYA
General Session
2025 State of the State: Payer Accountability
Travis Gentry
Chief Executive Officer
Hyve Health | Collectyve Health
ACHE
Leading Strategic Change (continued)
Jim Austin, MPA/MURP
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Brown University, MHL
As the U.S. healthcare system undergoes profound transformation, healthcare leaders must adapt and evolve amidst their changing realities. This seminar will provide attendees with the ability to make solid decisions and optimize strategic changes when faced with uncertainty. Discover answers to critical questions such as which strategies will provide leaders with the ability to thrive during these uncertain times and what new investments and capabilities are needed to successfully lead strategic change. You will learn the four building blocks to good decision making and common decision traps. You will also be introduced to a scenario planning tool and a framework to help you develop future alternatives. Take away a simple four-step model to optimize execution and drive change.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize and overcome barriers to deal with the market uncertainties in the nation’s healthcare system.
- Gain successful models for driving change to improve your individual and organization’s capabilities.
- Discover and practice the stages of successful strategic execution, especially as related to culture change.
KONL
Sharing and Presenting Best Practices
Every Nurse Matters: A Peer-to-Peer Suicide Prevention Program
Responding to Patient Escalation: Code Violet Activations
How to Write a Winning Abstract
Three topics will be covered in this session.
Sharing and Presenting Best Practices
Every Nurse Matters: A Peer-to-Peer Suicide Prevention Program
Judy Ponder, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, NE-BC, CSSGB
Director of Education and Professional Development
Baptist Health Richmond
This session shares findings from a study that was conducted at seven Baptist Health Hospitals. A team of nurse educators across the system collaborated with a local school of nursing’s psychiatric nurse practitioner faculty to develop educational content based upon the Kentucky Board of Nursing suicide prevention continuing education requirement and the feedback from the nursing needs assessment.
Learning Objective:
- Recognize the elements of an effective educational program that can be implemented with nursing staff and nurse leaders to support suicide prevention efforts
- Describe ways in which structured educational approaches can enhance confidence in nurses’ abilities to intervene during when the threat of suicide exists
- Identify ways to empower nurses to make safe decisions regarding risk for suicide following educational interventions
Responding to Patient Escalation: Code Violet Activations
Director, Behavioral Health Services
University of Kentucky
This presentation will present the development and implementation of a nurse led patient de-escalation process modeling rapid response concepts for medical emergencies. Focus will be on providing trauma informed care, comparing the patient centered “Code Violet” response to traditional responses to patient behavioral emergencies, detailing the role of the behavioral health specialist nurse and other team members, and presenting outcomes and next steps for the program.
Learning Objectives:
- Detail the reason for moving to Code Violet responses and how it supports trauma informed care
- Describe the role of the behavioral health specialist nurse
- Discuss outcomes of the program
How to Write a Winning Abstract
Professional Development Specialist
Baptist Health Richmond
Your abstract should be a stand-alone document that summarizes the key points of your research or your ideas and entices readers to learn more about your work. These guidelines can be used to create abstracts for a range of publications and presentations.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the key elements of a well-written abstract
- Identify “dos” and “don’t” with abstract writing
KAHA
Legislative Update
James C. Musser, Esq.
Kentucky Hospital Association
Monday, May 19
7:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (ET)
Health Care Workforce Summit
7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Kentucky Society of Health System Pharmacists Track
Tuesday, May 20
7:00 a.m. (ET)
Registration Opens
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Keynote Address: Unstoppable
Anthony Robles
Anthony Robles was born without a right leg, yet he never let disability stop him from achieving his dreams. With unrelenting determination – and the belief that he could do anything – he defied all odds and became a champion collegiate wrestler, competing against able-bodied athletes. An NCAA Division I Champion, three-time All-American, and a recipient of the ESPY Jimmy V Award for Perseverance, Anthony inspires others to believe that they too can overcome the odds. In this moving, awe-inspiring presentation, Anthony shares his extraordinary life story – now chronicled on the big screen in a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome – and illustrates how perseverance, hard work, and a strong belief in yourself can not only lead you to success but make you unstoppable.
9:30 a.m.
American College of Healthcare Executives Track
9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Kentucky Academy of Healthcare Attorneys Track
9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Kentucky Organization of Nurse Leaders Track
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Managing Medicare Advantage
Kathy Reep
Senior Manager
Martie Ross
Principal
PYA
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
2025 State of the State: Payer Accountability
Travis Gentry
Chief Executive Officer
Hyve Health | Collectyve Health
12:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
KHA Awards Luncheon
Gerard Colman, Ph.D.
KHA Board Chair
System CEO of Baptist Health System
Our annual awards luncheon honoring the leaders in Kentucky’s hospital community.
Wednesday, May 21
8:00 a.m. (ET)
Keynote Address: Our Healthy Kentucky Home
Steven J. Stack, MD, MBA
Commissioner, Kentucky Department for Public Health
Our Healthy Kentucky Home is a Team Kentucky initiative with the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) to engage and inspire Kentuckians on a personal journey of achievable health and wellness improvements through increased physical activity, improved nutritional health, and decreased social isolation through targeted interventions.
9:30 a.m.
American College of Healthcare Executives Track
a.m.
Key Developments in the 340B Drug Discount Program
Ted Slafsky, MPP
Publisher and Chief Executive Officer
340B Report
James C. Musser, Esq.
Senior Vice President, Policy and Government Relations
Kentucky Hospital Association
a.m.
Medical Cannabis Update: Lessons Learned in the First Six Months
Jennifer J. Cave, Esq.
Member
Stites & Harbison
Ramona Hieneman, Esq.
Vice President and Associate General Counsel
Owensboro Health, Inc.
Joseph A. Rectenwald, Esq.
Associate General Counsel – Director of Risk Management
St. Elizabeth Healthcare
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