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ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference 2009

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Aligning Employee Incentives to Achieve Quality & Infection Prevention Goals

Track : CFO Financial Strategy & Operations

Program Code: C04

Date: Tuesday , June 16, 2009

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

Location: Room 613, WSCTC

CO-SPEAKER :

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Kevin Burns, CPA, Chief Financial Officer, University Medical Center

Kevin J. Burns, CPA, became the Chief Financial Officer for UMCC in June 2002. UMCC was recently named to the U.S.News & World Report�s top 50 hospitals in the United States in five of the 16 medical specialties the magazine surveyed. Prior to working at UMCC, Mr. Burns was with Arthur Andersen LLP, serving as a Partner in Arthur Andersen�s Desert Southwest Healthcare Practice, which served healthcare organizations in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. During his 17 years with Arthur Andersen, Mr. Burns was responsible for the delivery of accounting and consulting services to a broad range of healthcare organizations ranging from multi-hospital systems to stand alone urban and rural healthcare providers, commercial insurance carriers, pharmacy benefit managers, and government agencies involved in the delivery or oversight of healthcare programs. While at Arthur Andersen, Mr. Burns also served organizations, both public and private, in industries including commercial retail, real estate, homebuilding, and heavy construction, agriculture, education, and manufacturing. Mr. Burns received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Arizona State University in 1981 and has been a Certified Public Accountant in Arizona since 1984. Mr. Burns has served on a number of boards of not-for-profit organizations. He is past President of TERROS, a not-for-profit community-based organization providing behavioral health, prevention, education and treatment services in the Phoenix area, and the Arizona Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (�HFMA�). He is presently on the boards of the Children�s Clinics for Rehabilitative Services and Arizona Family Care Associates.

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Drew Deaton, CPA, Director of Finance and Operations, Cardinal Health MedMined Services

Learning Objectives:

Develop a plan for implementing successful incentives to work in their organizations and discuss real examples of incentives that worked and those that didnt.
Differentiate what quality measures and programs are actionable and work and what measures are non-actionable.
Understand challenges and biases of data collection.

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