Workforce Complexities: Using Data and Context to Drive Solutions – Minneapolis

Health Sector Workforce Complexities: Using Data and Context to Drive Solutions

May 24, 2017  5:45 PM – 8:30 PM

*Two locations with real-time video

Saint Mary’s University Center:  2540 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55404

AND

Cascade Meadow:  2900 19th Street Northwest, Rochester, MN 55901

*This program has been developed and is presented locally by the Minnesota Chapter of ACHE. The American College of Healthcare Executives has awarded 1.5 ACHE Face-to-Face Education Credits to this program.

Agenda

5:45 – 6:30 pm            Social and Networking (Heavy Appetizers & Cash Bar)

6:30 – 6:45 pm            Welcome and Overview of Topic and Format of Panel Presentations

6:45 – 7:45 pm            Panelist Presentations

7:45 – 8:15 pm            Q & A Dialogue Session

8:15 – 8:30 pm            Closing with Evaluations

Program Overview:  The intractable complexities facing healthcare organizations are highly interconnected with the workforce providing direct patient care, supporting system functions, and educating the professionals of tomorrow. Ensuring a stable, competent, and innovative workforce is an essential responsibility of healthcare leaders. The unique challenges related to the following focus areas are all timely issues needing solution-oriented dialogue, as we strive to educate, recruit, retain, and ensure the wellbeing of the workforce today and into the future:

• Impact of technologies on the workforce in the health sector


• Immigration and the need for greater cultural, gender, and generational diversity in the health sector


• Intensity and demands of those working within the system and how to build resiliency into a culture of health and wellbeing


• The unique issues facing providers in the rural, as well as highly urbanized centers.

Discussion

• Overview key data and information related to workforce in the health sector with a focus on emerging trends and critical shortage areas


• Examine focus areas related to workforce issues, including technology, immigration and cultural responsiveness, burnout and resilience, and geographic variations in workforce needs and limitations


• Offer data and experience-driven operational and policy solutions to address workforce issues in the next 5-7 years

Moderator 

Susan Doherty holds a Masters in Health and Human Services Administration from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and a BS in Political Science from Minnesota State University – Moorhead.Susan serves as the Program Director for the Minneapolis, Rochester, and fully online Masters in Health and Human Services Administration and as faculty focusing on health policy and ethics for St. Mary’s University of Minnesota.As a former corporate public affairs officer for MeritCare Health System (now Sanford Health) and the Executive Director for the Health Policy Consortium (membership made up of Altru, MedCenter One, Trinity, and MeritCare Health Systems), Susan brings a strong background in strategic planning and government relations, including federal payment policy and healthcare reform, community benefit and population health improvement, state Medicaid redesign, and professional practice issues.  Prior to those roles, she served as a political science instructor at North Dakota State University.

Panelists

Dr. Lois (Loie) Lenarz, MD, is a Family Medicine physician who works with individuals and teams to help them develop their capacity to lead, and to maintain resilience and passion in their work.  She has over 30 years of experience working as a clinician, facilitator and teacher with physicians, hospitals, healthcare systems and educational institutions She recently retired from her position as medical director of clinician professional development at Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis, Minnesota She continues to do consulting work and serves as an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Minnesota.    Loie received her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota, and her Medical Doctorate Degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School.  After completely her residency in Family Medicine she spent 12 years in private practice.  From the late 90’s until 2009 she served as Fairview’s Chief Clinical Officer

In 2007 Loie was awarded an Archibald Bush Foundation Medical Fellowship, during which she had the opportunity to study Adaptive Leadership with Dr. Ron Heifetz at Harvard, and became a facilitator through The Center for Courage and Renewal.  Loie lives in Golden Valley, Minnesota with her husband and the youngest of their three children.  In addition to her passion for health care, she loves to garden, sing, spend time in the outdoors and enjoy the company of family and friends.

John Medeiros, J.D. Before becoming an attorney, John Medeiros served as the firm’s Practice Group Administrator since our formation in 1996.  After working for 25 years in the field of immigration law, John received his J.D. from Hamline University School of Law in 2014 and is licensed in Minnesota.  John helps oversee the work of the case managers in the preparation of documents for submission to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Department of Labor, and helps to review and interpret applicable immigration-related laws and regulations.  John sets up systems within the firm to ensure work is done consistently and in the most cost-efficient manner possible for clients; he also organizes legal education seminars for corporate clients annually.  John has particular expertise with J-1 waiver applications, nonimmigrant visa petitions (H, L, O, TN, E, B-1), Labor Certification Applications (including PERM applications), immigrant visa petitions, and Adjustment of Status Applications.  He is fluent in Spanish and English, and speaks to foreign students every year on immigration options after graduation.  He has served as a legal intern with the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, and is the author of Immigration After DOMA: How Equal is Marriage Equality? (Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy, Fall 2013).

Nitika Moibi works for the Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care. She oversees statewide collection and analysis of data on Minnesota’s healthcare workforce, and directs research on workforce availability, distribution and emerging trends to inform workforce policies and investments. Her background includes health services research and rulemaking. Nitika received her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Human Resource Management from the University of Minnesota Duluth, and her graduate degree in public policy from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.  

Dr. Jon Pryor, MD joined Hennepin County Medical Center as CEO in April, 2013. Before joining HCMC, he was CEO of the Medical College of Physicians, the Medical College of Wisconsin’s clinical practice group of physicians, advanced practice providers and other staff. As a management consultant at McKinsey & Company from 2006-2009, Dr. Pryor worked with healthcare clients to build financial models, develop growth strategies, and implement lean management. A urologic surgeon by training, Dr. Pryor was Chair of the Department of Urologic Surgery at the University of Minnesota from 2001-2006. He has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and was awarded a Bush Medical Fellowship in 2005. His education and training include a BA in Physics from Carleton College, medical degree from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, two years of residency in the Hennepin County Medical Center Surgery Residency program followed by four years of urology residency and a MS at the University of Virginia, and an American Foundation of Urologic Disease Fellowship at the University of Minnesota. He has been widely published in peer reviewed journals in men’s health and urologic disorders.

Kaia Yngve is a Program Director with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) where she is focused on maturing diversity and inclusion efforts in the Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS).  The MCHS is a network of hospitals and clinics, spans 72 communities and employs 14,000 allied health staff and 1,000 physicians.  Prior to this role, Kaia was an Operations Manager for 5.5 years in Mayo Clinic’s College of Medicine.  Originally joining Mayo Clinic as an Administrative Fellow, she holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation Biology from the University of Minnesota.  

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