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Leadership Roles in Critical Care Organizations: The Way Forward!

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Stephen Pastores, MD, MACP, FCCP

  Program Director, Critical Care Medicine
  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  New York, NY

  Disclosure(s): Abbvie: Advisory Board (Terminated)

As value-based care and reimbursement continue to drive healthcare organizations to strive for cost control, efficiency, and sustainability, hospital merger and acquisition activity is likely to grow to allow for greater scale to reduce costs, offer additional care services, and create a larger footprint in the local and market. Planned consolidation of clinical service lines at each affiliated system hospital drives cost reduction, quality enhancement, and margin improvement. Critical care leaders are being challenged to address rising patient demand for critical care services, the intensivist workforce shortage, education of new generations of critical care physicians and advanced practice providers, and standardization of care and technologies in hospitals with many ICUs. Critical care leaders are participating in quality assurance, cost control, research, and fundraising initiatives. New organizational models called critical care organizations (CCOs) are being created to address these issues. Speakers are leaders with successful CCOs, who will provide the framework, tools, and support network to those aspiring to form CCOs in their own institutions.

Presentations:

• How to Promote a CCO to Your Administrators
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Craig M. Coopersmith, MD, FACS, MCCM – Emory University Hospital
• Why a CCO Structure Would Appeal to RNs, APPs, and Pharmacists
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Vishal Bakshi, PA-C, FCCM – Emory Healthcare Crawford Long Hospital
• Crisis Situations: Which Model Is Better, CCO or Non-CCO?
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Nitin Puri, MD – Cooper University Health Care
• Regionalization of Critical Care in the Community
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Craig Lilly, MD, FCCM – UMass Memorial Medical Center
• Building and Integrating Academic Programs in CCOs
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Jason Moore, MD, MS, FCCM – UPMC
• Women as CCO Directors
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Michelle Gong, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Montefiore Medical Center