Kaufman Hall Collaborates With California Hospital Association To Offer Educational Series On Population Health Management

Comprehensive, Five-Part Certificate Program Addresses Business, Clinical, Technology, and Leadership Imperatives for Effective Population Health Management

Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, a leading provider of strategic, capital, financial, and transaction advisory services and software tools, recently announced it is collaborating with the California Hospital Association (CHA), the non-profit trade association representing nearly 400 hospitals and health systems in the state, to offer a five-part series of webinars and issue briefs on population health management. CHA engaged in this initiative with Kaufman Hall to help California member hospitals successfully navigate the daunting challenges associated with the emerging population health management model.

As healthcare transitions to a value-based model, population health management has emerged as a critical vehicle for hospitals to enhance care quality and decrease costs. This series of webinars and issue briefs provides strategic, business, and clinical leaders within hospitals and health systems the skills, information, and implementation tools they need to develop or strengthen their population health management strategies. Drawing from real-life examples, experts highlight core competencies, successful practices, and issues that are unique to California.

CHA has collaborated with management consultants and thought leaders from Kaufman Hall, including its Chair, Kenneth Kaufman, Managing Director Mark E. Grube, and Senior Vice President and leader of the firm’s population health management division Robert W. York, to develop and present this program. Registered participants are eligible for Continuing Education credit, and those who complete all five webinars will earn a certificate in population health management. Each webinar is held from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. PT, and is recorded for future viewing.

• Webinar 1: A Framework for Population Health Management (April 28, 2015)
• Webinar 2: Business Imperatives for Population Health Management (June 2, 2015)
• Webinar 3: Clinical Imperatives for Population Health Management (July 14, 2015)
• Webinar 4: Technology for Population Health Management (August 25, 2015)
• Webinar 5: Leadership and Talent for Population Health Management (October 6, 2015)

“Population health management is an imperative for hospitals and health systems, requiring new approaches to network development, care coordination, contracting, infrastructure, talent management, and many other areas,” said Jody Hill-Mischel, Managing Director, Kaufman Hall. “We appreciate the opportunity offered by the California Hospital Association to share a practical framework for making the transition to population health management that can be applied by a wide range of organizations.”

To register for the full webinar series, visit: http://www.calhospital.org/education-event/population-health-management-webinar.

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Since 1985, Kaufman Hall has been a leading advisor to hospitals and health systems, helping them incorporate proven methods into their strategic planning and financial management processes and consistently achieve their goals. Management consulting services and enterprise performance management software enable data-driven analysis and quantify the financial impact of plans, scenarios, and actions to improve organizational decision making. Kaufman Hall provides sophisticated, integrated, and intuitive software solutions for long-range planning, budgeting and forecasting, performance reporting, capital planning, cost accounting, decision support and analytics on a unified platform that can be delivered via the cloud or on premise.