2011 Patient Experience: Empathy & Innovation Summit
Sunday, May 22  |  Monday, May 23  |  Tuesday, May 24

2011 Agenda

Sunday, May 22

11:00am Registration Opens
Breakout Sessions
Track 1
12:00pm Welcome James Merlino, MD, Chief Experience Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Track 1: Importance of Social Media and the Changing Landscape Twitter, Facebook, YouTube: How do you use the latest social media platforms to engage patients? Discover effective service recovery techniques and learn how to measure the effectiveness of your social media campaigns. Learn how a community came together to build a mobile app to get people moving and having fun.
12:10pm Keynote Address Paul Matsen, Chief Marketing Officer, Cleveland Clinic
12:40pm Social Media in Healthcare Enoch Choi, MD, Partner, Urgent Care, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Melissa Katz, Senior Director, Public Relations, Johnson & Johnson
Julia Smalley, RN, MBA, Ascension Health Transformational Development Consultant, Ascension
Michael Vollmer, Director, Transformational Development, Ascension
2:25pm How to Better Engage Patients Through Social Media Shelley Frost, Director, Consumer Affairs and Ombudsman Officer, Cleveland Clinic
Sona Mehring, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Caringbridge
Carol & James Gommel, Parents of Patient
Joe Milicia, Senior Public Relations Manager, Corporate Communications, Cleveland Clinic
3:45pm Break
4:00pm Measurement in Social Media: How Do We Know if it Works? Debra Beaulieu, Editor, Fierce Practice Management
Kate O'Neill, Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner, meta marketer
Jeff Rohrs, ExactTarget
5:30pm The Components of a Community Project: Let's Move It Amy Cueva, Chief Experience Officer and Healthcare Principle, Mad Pow
Cynthia Galbincea, Executive Director, Marketing, Cleveland Clinic
Joe Kubic, Chief Executive Officer, AdCom
Jim Ross, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Cleveland Browns
Track 2
12:00pm Welcome Sarah Sinclair, MBA, RN, FACHE, Executive Chief Nursing Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Track 2: Complexities and Connections of Caregivers Empathetic care involves understanding, active listening and building a trusting relationship with your patients. This track will teach you how to be more empathetic and use active listening techniques when dealing with end of life care and moral distress. In addition, you'll hear a unique perspective as caregivers reflect about their relationships with patients.
12:10pm Keynote Address
Illuminating Heart: The Alchemy of Appreciative Healing
We live in a participatory universe where the potential for healing flows from the quality of our abilities to appreciate ourselves and others in the fullest sense. Empathy and innovation are hallmarks of healing grounded in the illumination of our hearts as a reference point from which to provide health care. The purpose of this presentation will be to demonstrate the alchemy of healing called forth when we appreciate the beauty underlying the seeming despair in life.

W. Richard Cowling, RN, PhD, Professor and Director of PhD Program in Nursing; Editor Journal of Holistic Nursing, University of North Carolina Greensboro
12:45pm The Leader as Artisan: Job Sculpting at its Best Moderator: Joan Kavanagh, MSN, RN, Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Michael Modic, MD, Chair, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Janice Murphy, MSN, RN, FACHE, President, Fairview and Lakewood Hospitals
1:45pm Confronting Moral Distress Kathleen Hill, MSN, RN, CCNS-CSC
2:20pm Listening As A Gift: Techniques for Being Present Moderator: Mary Beth Modic, MSN, RN, CNS, CDE, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cleveland Clinic

Scott Bea, PsyD, Clinical Psychologist, Cleveland Clinic
Marjorie Hoelker, PsyD, Clinical Counseling Associates
3:40pm Break
3:55pm Empathy in End of Life Care: Ethics, Morals, Costs Moderator: Marc Harrison, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi

K. Sarah Hoehn, MD, MBe, Program Director, Drexel University College of Medicine
Deborah Klein, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CCRN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cleveland Clinic
Venugopal Menon, MD, Director, Cardiac Care Unit, Cleveland Clinic
5:30pm Reflections on the Patient-Caregiver Relationship Moderator: Meredith Lahl, MSN, RN, CNS, Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cleveland Clinic

Jeanne Bryner, BA, RN, CEN, Author and Poet
Kathleen McCue, MA, LSW, CCLS, Director, Children's Program, The Gathering Place
6:30pm Adjourn
6:30pm Welcome Reception

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Monday, May 23

7:00am Registration Opens

Continental Breakfast
8:00am Overview
James Merlino, MD, Chief Experience Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Welcome
Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Clinic
8:15am Opening Address

Customer Experience as a C-Suite Initiative
Moderator: Beth Mooney, President and Chief Operating Officer, Key Bank
8:35am Business of Patient Experience
Moderator: Beth Mooney, President and Chief Operating Officer, Key Bank

How do you cultivate a patient-centered culture like companies build customer service? This session will demonstrate how patient experience and customer service can be part of your organization's strategic plan as well as the challenges and opportunities that patient experience brings to hospitals. Learn from the experts in business.

Marc L. Boom, MD, MBA, FACP, FACHE, Executive Vice President, The Methodist Hospital System
Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Clinic
David T. Feinberg, MD, MBA, Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer, UCLA Hospital System
9:15am The Emerging Role of the Chief Customer Officer
Paul Hagen, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
9:35am Role of a Chief Experience Officer
Anthony Cirillo, President, Fast Forward Consulting
9:55am Break
10:00am Improving the Experience by Managing Patient Expectations
Moderator: Ananth Raman, PhD, Professor of Business Logistics, Harvard Business School

Can you truly manage a patient's expectations? What do you do when you fall short of your goals? This session will illustrate specific methods for setting patient expectations to ensure a positive patient experience.
10:10am Managing Customer Expectations
Ananth Raman, PhD

Can We Modify Patient Expectations?
Devin Gross, Chief Executive Officer, Emmi Solutions

Getting Patients to Partner in Their Care
James Merlino, MD, Chief Experience Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Panel Discussion
11:20am Advancing the Patient Experience through Philanthropy
Moderator: Cheryl Tupper, Program Director, Religion and Health Care, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

The role and importance of philanthropic support in advancing patient experience initiatives will be featured by real-life examples. Participate in general discussion of best practices and work related to the patient experience.

William Branch, Jr., MD, Director, Division of General Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Beth Lown, MD, Medical Director, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Carol Santalucia, MBA, Director of Service Excellence and Patient Advocacy, Office of Patient Experience, Cleveland Clinic
12:20pm Lunch

Keynote Address
Robby Benson, Actor and Patient
1:45pm Chasing the Scores: Real Life HCAHPS Improvement
Moderator: James Merlino, MD, Cleveland Clinic

What are other organizations doing to improve their patient satisfaction scores? Learn how to use your patient satisfaction data and customer comments to effectively prioritize and implement change. Also identify some effective solutions and best practices that could be adopted in your organization.

Keynote Address
Insights into HCAHPS Improvement from Sentiment Analysis

Rick Siegrist, Chief Executive Officer, Press Ganey

Accelerating Care Experience Improvement: Lessons Learned from Kaiser Permanente
Deborah Romer, Vice President, National Service Quality, Kaiser Permanente

Creating and Sustaining a Culture of High Reliability Experience
Devin Carty, Chief Experience Officer and Chief Learning Officer, Vanguard Health Systems

Homogenized is for Milk… & Ten More Ways to Create Outstanding Patient Experiences in Your Practice
Jamie Verkamp, Managing Partner, (e)Merge

Why Smart People Forget Who They're Serving... The Why & What of Exceptional Experiences
Diane Stover, Vice President Marketing & Innovation Strategy, Chief Experience Officer, Memorial Health System

Providing Structure and Rigor Around the Execution of Performance Improvement Strategies
Deirdre Mylod, PhD, Vice President of Hospital Services, Press Ganey

Q&A
3:45pm Break
4:00pm Technology's Impact on Patient Engagement
Technology allows hospitals to apply human and financial resources where they can have the most impact, and provides a tangible return on investment. This panel of experts will share their institutions' best practices for implementing scalable technology to improve the overall patient experience, satisfaction and efficiency, as well as reduce risk.

Moderator: Jordan Dolin, Founder, Emmi Solutions

Overview
Jordan Dolin

James Grant, MD, Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Oakland University
Roberta Levy Schwartz, Senior Vice President, Operations, The Methodist Hospital
Norm Tabler, Jr., Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Indiana University Health
Kristine White, RN, BSN, MBA, Vice President Innovations and Patient Affairs, Spectrum Health System; President, Spectrum Health Innovations, LLC
5:30pm Cleveland Clinic Art Collection and Campus Tours

Reception
6:30pm Dinner
Thomas Tallman, DO, Director, Emergency Preparedness & Disaster Medicine, Cleveland Clinic

Performance by Sing for Hope
Alexis Martin, Manager of Healing Arts, Sing for Hope
Spencer Myer, Performer, Sing for Hope
Rebecca Ringle, Performer, Sing for Hope

"What Sing for Hope does is wonderfully simple. It maintains a roster of compassionate, professional artists who donate time and talent to the humanitarian causes that inspire them."

- Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Sing for Hope Board Member

Sing for Hope's Healing Arts program brings live performance to patients and care-givers in healthcare facilities. Public concerts and bedside performances by Donor Artists are tailored to patient and community needs, providing uplift and complementing the healing process.

Sing for Hope is a non-profit organization that mobilizes professional artists in volunteer service programs that benefit schools, hospitals and communities. To learn more, please visit www.singforhope.org.

Join us at the dinner program on Monday, May 23.

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Tuesday, May 24

7:00am Continental Breakfast
Sponsored by The Association for Patient Experience
7:30am Registration Opens
8:00am The Impact of Arts and Environment on Healing

Keynote Address
Spencer de Grey, Head of Design, Foster + Partners
8:30am Arts
How can the arts be integrated into the hospital setting in order to promote a healing environment? Learn how music therapy, dance, and music can be utilized with a variety of patients in order to promote healing. This session will include professional and personal experiences, as well as current research.

Moderator: Iva Fattorini, MD, Executive Director, Arts and Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Richard Fratianne, MD, Professor Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University
Lisa Gallagher, MA, MT-BC, Music Therapy Manager, Cleveland Clinic
Deforia Lane, PhD, MT-BC, Director of Music Therapy, University Hospitals of Cleveland
Charity Tillemann-Dick, Opera Singer and Patient
Mary Verdi-Fletcher, President/Founding Artistic Director, The Dancing Wheels Company & School
Tim Janis, Composer, Conductor, Concert Pianist and Producer, The American Composer
10:00am Break
10:15am
These sessions will run concurrently. Attendees may only participate in one session for this time slot.
Architecture - Healing and the Physical Environment
Moderator: William Peacock, III, PE, Chief of Operations, Cleveland Clinic

How can art be integrated into the overall design to promote a peaceful, healing environment? Learn how functional requirements can be integrated into the design of patient care environments to enhance healing.

Overview
Esther Sternberg, MD, Medical Researcher and Author of Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being

Robert Bostwick, President and Director of Design, Bostwick Design Partnership
Chris Dimond, FASLA, Partner, Peter Walker Partners Landscape Architecture
Eileen Malone, MSN, RN, MS, EDAC, Senior Partner, Mercury Healthcare Consulting, LLC
Diversity & Inclusion's Impact on Employee and Patient Satisfaction
Moderator: Anthony Stallion, MD, Chief Community Relations & Diversity Officer, Cleveland Clinic

A diverse and culturally sensitive workforce lays the groundwork for respect and appreciation of our differences. Inclusion in the workplace needs to be intentional and can be leveraged to improve care and experience for patients, their families and employees. Learn the importance of building an infrastructure of skills, knowledge and understanding to have a measurable impact on patient satisfaction and employee engagement.

James Hekman, MD, Associate Staff, Cleveland Clinic
Selwyn Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH, Division Chief, Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Kathryn Teng, MD, Staff Physician, Internal Medicine; Assistant Professor, Lerner College of Medicine; Director, Center for Personalized Healthcare, Cleveland Clinic
Luke Visconti, Chief Executive Officer, DiversityInc
11:45am Lunch

Keynote Address
Regina Brett, Columnist, The Plain Dealer
1:15pm Tools You Can Use Tomorrow for Patient Centered Care
Moderator: Robert Schwartz, General Manager, Global Design, GE Healthcare

Francine Gemperle, Designer and Researcher, MAYA Design
Craig Vogel, FIDSA, Director, Center for Design Research and Innovation, University of Cincinnati
2:30pm Can You Teach Empathetic Care?
Moderator: Pauline Chen, MD, Surgeon, Author: Final Exam and Columnist, New York Times

Overview
Pauline Chen, MD, Surgeon, Author: Final Exam and Columnist, New York Times

Challenges to Clinical Empathy
Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Medical Students Empathy
J. Harry "Bud" Isaacson, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine; Assistant Dean of Clinical Education, Cleveland Clinic

Relationship Matter: Looking at How Nurse Physician Relationships Impact Patient Outcomes
Sandra Siedlecki, PhD, RN, CNS, Senior Nurse Researcher, Cleveland Clinic

Panel Discussion
3:40pm Break
3:55pm Employee Engagement
Moderator: Michael Roizen, MD, Chief Wellness Officer, Cleveland Clinic

How do you improve your organization's culture to promote greater employee engagement? Do highly engaged employees provide a better patient/customer experience? Learn about Cleveland Clinics model for integrating an exceptional employee experience with a world class patient experience to achieve success.

Overview
Michael Roizen, MD

Leading in an Emotional Economy: Behavioral Economics and Engagement
Brian Brim, Gallup Consulting

Why is Employee Engagement So Hard To Get?
Arden Brion, Managing Director, Root Learning

Hiring For Engagement
Mark Hellrung, General Manager, Four Seasons Hotel, Las Vegas

Driving Engagement at Large Healthcare Institutions
Joseph Patrnchak, Chief Human Resource Officer, Cleveland Clinic
5:30pm Adjourn
 
 
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