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Dan Grauman
President and CEO
DGA Partners
Bala Cynwyd, PA

Don Seymour
President
Don Seymour & Associates
Winchester, MA

By 2020 there will be at least 10 percent fewer hospitals. The survivors will be more specialized as caregivers master rules-based medicine to move upstream and as hospitals focus their resources on what is “best” to do versus what is “good” to do. Integration will be evidenced by the growth of hospital systems and multispecialty physician groups responding to payment and policy initiatives. Although it won’t have been easy, information exchanges will be completely digital.

You will learn to:

• Develop a better understanding of the implications of major environmental changes on what it means to be a “hospital.”
• Understand how change will push hospitals into two financial categories: the haves and the have-nots.
• Identify the key characteristics of winners and losers in 2020.
• Appreciate the importance of separating strategic issues from the myriad operational/tactical issues confronting hospitals on a daily basis.
• Recognize the roles of trustees, senior managers, and physicians in preparing for what is to come.