1. VMG Health, for its senior level sponsorship. VMG Health is one of the most trusted valuation and transaction advisors in the United States offering a unique and in-depth understanding of the relationships, requirements and business issues that surround today’s healthcare facilities.
2. Surgical Care Affiliates, for sponsoring the Thursday night reception. SCA is one of the nation’s largest providers of specialty surgical services; through its affiliation with 18 health systems and more than 2,000 physician partners, it operates more than 125 surgical facilities across the country.
3. United Surgical Partners International, for sponsoring the Friday night reception. United Surgical Partners is your trusted partner in short-stay surgical facilities. With over 170 facilities in the United States and abroad, we have extensive experience in managing successful centers. Founded on the three-way joint-venture model (hospital-physician-management company), over 60 percent of our facilities are owned with local not-for-profit health systems along with our physician partners. Partnering with USPI provides management strength with individual attention to your facility. For more information, please e-mail development@uspi.com or see www.uspi.com.
4. Eveia Health Consulting & Management, for sponsoring the badge lanyards and the Conference at a Glance. Eveia was founded by I. Naya Kehayes and is comprised of a team of seasoned professionals who are experts in reimbursement management, managed care contracting and business management with a specialization in ASCs and surgical practices.
5. GOJO Industries, for sponsoring the hand sanitizers. GOJO is dedicated to improving the well-being of patients and healthcare professionals, as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of handwashing, hand sanitizing, surgical scrub, moisturizing and patient bathing systems; PURELL® and PROVON® products and programs, including PURELL Waterless Surgical Scrub, offer infection control and skin care solutions to help improve hand hygiene compliance.
6. ProVation Medical, for sponsoring the Friday networking lunch. ProVation Medical, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, offers ProVation EHR, designed to meet the patient charting and documentation needs of cost-conscious ASCs; provides electronic physician, nursing, anesthesia and other documentation combined in a patient-centric system that eliminates printing, transcription and chart storage costs and streamlines workflow; and offers ProVation MD software for physician documentation eliminated dictation delays and transcription costs, improves coding accuracy and drives revenue recovery and full reimbursement.
7. Amerinet, for its exclusive GPO sponsorship. Amerinet is a leading national group purchasing organization that strategically partners with healthcare providers to reduce costs and improve quality; its Total Spend Management solutions and operational performance improvement programs, tools and services can assist members in their efforts to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and create new revenue streams.
8. Amkai, for its USB drive sponsorship. Amkai is a software company with 20-plus years of experience delivering administrative and clinical solutions to ASCs, surgical hospitals and physician practices and creator of AmkaiEnterprise, a comprehensive, cost-effective suite providing full facility and clinic management, electronic medical record, CPOE, e-prescription, and related functions designed from the ground up to meet the unique requirements of surgery centers and surgical practices.
9. QSE Technologies, for sponsoring the Cyber Cafe. QSE Technologies is a premiere IT systems integrator serving the ambulatory healthcare industry for more than five years, which can manage all aspects of IT infrastructure design, configuration, installation and ongoing tech support for new and existing ASCs nationwide.
10. Facility Development & Management, for sponsoring the keycards. FDM is a for-profit LLC that provides consultative, developmental and managerial services for ASCs, with primary objectives of identifying business opportunities; formulating project plans; guiding and directing facilities through the planning, construction, setup and licensure phases of the project; and providing ongoing administrative and clinical support.
11. SourceMedical, for sponsoring the conference tote bags. SourceMedical is a leading provider of outpatient information solutions and services, collectively serving ASCs and surgical hospitals by offering end-to-end systems to improve operational efficiency and cash flow while empowering healthcare facilities to deliver a higher standard of patient care.
12. Medi-Corp, for sponsoring the Friday breakfast. Medi-Corp specializes in providing billing services to the ASC market, anesthesiology and pain management. The company can provide your facility with total outsourced billing services or manage your internal billing, utilizing your existing system, but incorporating our processes.
13. Access MediQuip, for becoming the exclusive ASC implants and devices sponsor and exclusive track sponsor: orthopedic and spine ASC issues. Access MediQuip is one of the nation’s largest and most experienced implant surgery management companies, with an extensive network of surgical facilities and hospitals, device manufacturers, and healthcare payers. We leverage our more than 10-plus years of experience, utilization data and an innovative technology platform to help facilities improve cash flow, reduce financial risk and expand the number of surgical procedures they perform.
14. Symbion, for sponsoring the bottled water. Symbion is a leading provider of high quality surgical services across many specialties. Led by one of the industry’s most experienced management teams, the company was founded in 1996 to acquire, develop and operate surgical facilities in partnership with physicians, hospitals and health systems.
15. B.E. Smith, for sponsoring the magazine distribution station. Founded in 1978, B. E. Smith is a full-service leadership solutions firm for healthcare providers. B. E. Smith’s comprehensive suite of services includes interim leadership, permanent executive placements and consulting solutions. The company is comprised of veteran healthcare leaders who partner with each client to create a solution that uniquely fits that client’s individual needs.
16. The Joint Commission, for sponsoring the physician-owned hospitals track. For almost 60 years, The Joint Commission has been the nation’s leader in health care accreditation programs and currently accredits almost 18,000 health care organizations in the United States. Surgical hospitals and freestanding surgical centers seeking Joint Commission accreditation illustrate to their patients and to the public their commitment to quality practices and safe delivery of care. Successfully achieving Joint Commission accreditation demonstrates that an organization is in compliance with national consensus-based standards developed to help health care organizations help patients.
17. Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, for sponsoring the general management and accreditation track. HFAP has been accrediting healthcare facilities across the country for over 60 years, over 40 years under Medicare. It is authorized by CMS to survey hospitals under Medicare and their clinical laboratories under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). Its mission is to advance high quality patient care and safety through objective application of recognized standards. HFAP accredits hospitals, clinical laboratories, ambulatory care/surgery centers, office-based surgery, physical rehabilitation facilities, behavioral health facilities, critical access hospitals and provides primary stroke center certification.
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