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ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference 2009

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Strategies for Responding to Tighter Capital Markets

Track : CFO Financial Strategy & Operations

Program Code: A04

Date: Monday , June 15, 2009

Time: 10:15 AM to 11:30 AM EST

Location: Room 620, WSCTC

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Mark E. Grube, BS, MBA, Partner, Kaufman, Hall & Associates, Inc.

Mark E. Grube, a Partner who leads Kaufman Halls integrated strategic advisory practice, will moderate the panel. Mr. Grube was the strategy consultant who advised the community hospital in Northern Virginia about its strategic options and initiated and was part of the team that secured for this hospital the partnership/merger agreement with the North Carolina system. Kaufman Halls integrated strategic advisory practice provides strategic and financial planning and implementation assistance related to enterprise-level strategies, clinical programs and service lines, physicians, health facilities planning, competitive markets, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and overall organizational growth. Mr. Grube has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, as a consultant and as a planning executive with one of the nations largest healthcare systems. He has worked extensively with a broad range of healthcare providers, including community hospitals, specialty hospitals, regional and national health systems, and academic medical centers. Mr. Grube is a frequent speaker and author on healthcare topics, including strategy development, sustainable revenue growth, replacement facility development, and mergers and acquisitions. Over the past five years, Mr. Grube has published more than a dozen articles and white papers. He received the Helen Yerger/L.Vann Seawell Best Article Award from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) in 2007 for his cover story in the May 2007 issue of hfm magazine titled Growing the Top Line: 5 Strategies to Expand Your Business, and in 2009 for the article he co-authored in the May 2009 issue of hfm titled Ensuring Affordability of Your Hospitals Strategies. Mr. Grube has presented at national meetings of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), The Governance Institute, HFMA, and the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development (SHSMD). Reflecting his serious commitment to healthcare management and governance education, Mr. Grube presents frequently at hospital/health system retreats and university graduate programs in health administration. He is a member of ACHE, HFMA, SHSMD, and the Leaders Board for Healthcare Strategy and Public Policy. Mr. Grube received an M.B. A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a B.S., magna cum laude, in Economics from Bradley University. Contact information: Mark E. Grube Partner Kaufman, Hall & Associates, Inc. 5202 Old Orchard Road, Suite N700 Skokie, Illinois 60077 847.441.8780, ext.127 847.441.2496 fax mgrube@kaufmanhall.com

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Andrew Majka, Partner and Chief Operating Officer, Kaufman Hall

Learning Objectives:

Evaluate organizational alternatives in response to increasing cost of capital
Examine the fundamental changes that have occurred in the capital markets.
Explore how increases in the cost of capital impact the organization's risk profile

Audio Synchronized to PowerPoint

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Complete Conference Online Access

CFO Financial Strategy & Operations Track

Handout Online

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Regular Attendee:Free

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