Using Simulations to Champion Strategic Change Management Initiatives in Health Care Organizations

Findings from recent research among U.S. health care leaders suggests that facilitating change management initiatives within an organization requires significant leadership and team building competencies. In this session, facilitators will present a number of existing change models and then introduce one new change theory to be applied during the use of an active simulation model, resulting in the needed buy in for change from key stakeholders and team members.

• Larry Leaming, DHA, Chief Executive Officer, Estes Park Medical Center
• John Fick, Associate Professor, A.T. Still University