John J. Volpi, MD; Neurology, Vascular Neurology; Director, Eddy Scurlock Stroke Center, Houston Methodist Stanley H. Appel Department of Neurology

Muhammed Ali- Sultan, MD, Chief of Vascular/Endovascular Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurosurgery; Harvard Medical School. Director, microsurgical laboratory; Co-director, Comprehensive Stroke Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Meredith Wells; Vice President of Neurosciences and Trauma Service Lines; Ascension Texas, Dell Medical School /The University of Texas at Austin 

Deepak S. Nair, MD; Director, Ambulatory & Virtual Neurology Services; OSF Healthcare - Illinois Neurological Institute 

Brijesh P Mehta, MD, NeuroInterventional Surgeon; Director, NeuroInterventional Surgery; Director, Comprehensive Stroke Program; Memorial Neuroscience Institute

Mary R. Wylie, DHA, MBA, MHA, FACHE; Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Administration; Baylor Scott & White Medical Center- Plano

Craig Brubaker, PhD, Vice President, Neuroscience Institute, AdventHealth Florida

Amanda Webb, MSN, RN, SCRN, NE-BC, Administrative Director of Nursing, Neuro/Trauma Regional Director, Neuroscience Service Line, Christus Spohn Health System

Matthew Baird, Director, Neurosciences Service Line New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Michelle Manifield, RN, MSN, MBA, Clinical Performance Improvement Consultant, Neuroscience Service Line, Sutter Health

Daniel McFarland, MHA, Service Line Administrator, Spine, Digestive Health, and Neurosciences Service Lines; Project Manager, Peri-procedural, Peri-operative and Hospital Based Services, Brigham & Women’s Hospital 

Sharon Heaton, MA, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, Administrator, Service Line, Neurological Institute, Trauma and Burn Programs, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center 

Patricia Lane, MBA, BSN, SCRN, FAAN, Vice President and Administrator, Neuroscience Service Line; Inova Health System

Brandon Wattai, MBA, EMT-Program Director, Stroke Institute
UPMC Neurological Institute

Steve Zanders,DO,FCCP,Associate Medical Director Critical Care ServicesMedical Director Neurologic Critical Care, Neuroendovascular and Stroke UPMC-Central

Al Brahmbhatt, DO, Neuroscience ED Director, AdventHealth Florida

Conference MC - Debbie Lombardi Hill, Lombardi Hill Consulting Group

And many more experts ….

• Key Updates and Requirements for Joint Commission CSC Certification
• Building a CSC Program – Economics and Business Plan for CSCS
• Financial reimbursement and cost for a stroke mobile unit and Neuro ICU 
• Managing cost per patient, reimbursement for hospital/setting sights on a profitable program
• Implementation of Post-Stroke Outpatient Pathways for Optimizing Care and Reducing Readmissions.
• How to have success with The Joint Commission - lessons across Comprehensive, Thrombectomy and Primary surveys 
• Building an integrated regional stroke program while simultaneously advancing the stroke center certification of a hub-site
• Critical Role of EMS and Stroke Process Improvement in the Thrombectomy Era
• Redesigning prehospital stroke protocols and in-hospital workflow to ensure timely treatment for good outcomes
• Role of technology in enhancing the delivery of acute stroke care
• Mobile Stroke Units
• Telestroke program – how to help lobby for proper reimbursement
• Future changes that CMS may make pertaining to stroke treatment
• Optimizing the role of NP or mid-level provider on a stroke team 
• Data collection/analysis and how to use that information to achieve improvement in quality indicators
• Successful strategies to lower stroke readmissions
• Developing Stroke Systems of Care
• Improving Stroke Mortality: EMR as Care Guidance
• Post-Stroke Care and Stroke Clinics
• Resource allocation- meeting patient needs with limited resources
• Solutions to Staffing numbers for CSCs

TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED

• National Trends in Behavioral Health Crisis Care - Review the current state pressures in Behavioral Health / Discuss expected trends in BH's future state 
• The Business of Behavioral Health Service Lines: Creating Pathways for Success 
• Overcoming the Obstacles to Value-Based Behavioral Healthcare: Practical Guidance for Payers, Providers & Employers
• Cross-Payer Parity: Inequities in BH Access
• Building a Cost-Effective Advanced Practice Workforce
• Approaches to delivering cost effective and timely psychiatric care in the emergency department
• Solutions on how to deal with the lack of appropriate facilities/programs and the lack of funding for addressing behavioral health/addiction issues
• Overcoming challenges to insufficient reimbursement issues -specifically for behavioral health/addiction services
• Improving Access to Behavioral Health Service Lines
• Building an Integrated Behavioral Health Program from the Ground Up — Improving care coordination by integrating BH into primary care and ED 
• Development and implementation of Interventional Psychiatry Services, including TMS, ketamine, and ECT 
• Discuss impact of regulatory and clinical advances on the future delivery of BH services
• Build alternative crisis services / crisis stabilization units 
• Examining costs, utilization, and population trends in BH service lines
• Important role of tele health -improving access to psychiatric care and reducing wait times by utilizing emerging virtual care methods
• Technology advancements –tele-psych, teletherapy, BH navigation systems and other electronic tools 
• Recruitment and retention of behavioral health providers -Maintaining a strong talent pipeline to boost ongoing recruitment efforts including incentives for MDs/APPs and licensed counselors 
• Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis by implementing Self-Sustaining School-Based Services 
• Strategies for overcoming the financial, technological, and compliance challenges 
• Identifying community partnerships to develop funding opportunities to start successful, self-sustaining programs
• Examine the different metrics for evaluating program financials
• Setting up and managing a crisis stabilization unit for psychiatric patients in crisis/psych emergency services – performance metrics 
• 988 line mental health crisis line and its implementation
• Reimbursement / Billing 
• Medicaid / Medicare / private insurance/ New updates
• Strategies to handle the overwhelming demand in children and adolescents needing services

And many more key topics of interest!

Thursday, June 5, 2024
General sessions
7am- 5pm

Networking Reception 5pm-7pm

Friday, June 6, 2024
General Sessions
7am – 1pm
1pm Close of Conference

REGISTER by April 12 and SAVE $200!

EARLY BIRD PRICING (HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS)

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127 West Huron, Chicago, IL 60611 

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May 6, 2024

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