The Return on Investment for Improving Hospital Patient Flow
September 10, 2008

SPEAKERS:
Joy Avery, RN, MSN, CEN
Director of Specialized Clinical Services
Avanti Patient Flow Services

Claude Pate, REHS
Vice President, Content and Development Save
The Greeley Company

WEBINAR OVERVIEW:
National experts in flow improvement will give examples of how patient flow improvements impact the bottom line. There are practical, real life examples base on what really works and what it takes to make it happen.

You will learn:
• How improving time to provider in the emergency department increases revenue, quality and satisfaction.
• Approaches and benefits to a centralized patient logistics center and how the resulting improved bed turn-around-times will improve finances.
• Solutions that impact discharges earlier in the day and their return on investment.

About the Speakers:

Joy Avery, RN, MSN, CEN brings 22 years of clinical nursing and healthcare leadership experience to Avanti Patient Flow Services. She most recently served as the Director of Specialized Clinical Services responsible for The Transfer Center and patient flow areas, as well as the Bariatric Program and Nursing Leadership activities, from North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, MS, a 2006 winner of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Her specialty over the past 10 years has been program development in which she planned, developed, implemented and led the organization's Trauma Program, Transfer Center, Rapid Admit Unit, and Bariatric Program.

Claude (Bud) Pate serves as Vice President for Content and Development at The Greeley Company. He is a nationally recognized expert in patient flow and in hospital and health system regulation and accreditation with over 25 years experience in high profile problem solving. Mr. Pate's patient flow work brings him to institutions and podiums across the country to solve one of healthcare's most daunting challenges: how to reliably and consistently bring patients into contact with emergency providers and how to quickly find an inpatient bed for admitted patients. In the regulatory world, Mr. Pate has an unmatched track record for consultation under fire, helping institutions avoid adverse accreditation and certification actions while simplifying the challenge of ongoing compliance.

Recording:  $259