Events
The 2025 MHA Healthcare Communications and Development Conference is set to take place on Monday, May 5, and Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at the AC Hotel Downtown Bozeman, MT.
Effective fundraising, marketing, and communications are vital to the success of your hospital. If your role is responsible for fundraising, marketing, digital engagement, communications/public relations, and/or business development, please join us.
The conference will help you achieve your goals by providing a learning environment with innovative ideas, tried and true methods, and new approaches. The two-day event will be filled with networking opportunities and educational content that will leave you feeling inspired with new connections and new tools to add to your professional toolbox.
We are thrilled to extend a warm invitation to you for a comprehensive webinar series hosted by Huron.
This four-part, one-hour webinar series is designed to equip healthcare professionals like you with invaluable insights, best practices, and the latest industry trends.
Learn from leading industry experts and prominent thought leaders as they share practical applications for improved outcomes.
Event Benefits
- Gain expert perspectives from renowned healthcare leaders and subject matter experts
- Discover innovative strategies and solutions to pressing challenges
- Access valuable resources and practical tools to enhance your skills
- Earn continuing education credits (CEUs) for each webinar attended (CME, CNE, CPE)
Event Lineup
Session 1: Playing the Long Game: Moving Beyond Cost Cutting
Wednesday, Sept 4, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MST
Presented by Craig Deao
Leading healthcare systems must focus on performance improvement (reducing costs) and growth. Typically, the focus on cost-cutting is the common reaction to headwinds . . . 89% of hospitals currently have a cost-reduction plan (but only 6% characterized their programs as effective!) However, growth can have a greater near- and long-term impact on value. Growth can have a compounding effect on value creation and come in a variety of ways: Grow revenue at the same margin (top line); Substitute lower margin for higher margin services (bottom line); Expand volumes in higher margin services (top and bottom line).
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the limitations of cost-cutting as a sole strategy for healthcare performance improvement.
- Identify different growth strategies that can create sustainable value for healthcare systems.
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Session 2: Reimage Your Work Design: Processes, Roles, and Workflows to Best Support Your Workforce Ecosystem
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MST
Presented by Jennifer Miller and Buffy Kelly
By thoughtfully designing WHAT work needs to be done to create maximum value and align to the organization’s strategic priorities, WHO does the work so that you have the right resources at the right place at the right time, and HOW work is performed to create exceptional customer, employee, & provider experiences, organizations can accelerate realizing their goals and priorities.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to rethink the way core work can be done within healthcare organizations
- Build awareness of digital tools that can be leveraged to reduce the need for human capital
- Learn how to maintain experience while transforming the way work is done
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Session 3: Challenges and Winning Practices for Behavioral Health Management
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MST
Presented by Angie Esbenshade
Behavioral health challenges continue to grow within our communities and healthcare organizations. As those challenges grow, what are the leading practices that communities and healthcare organizations have developed to keep patients and staff safe and meet the increasing demands. As organizations come together to help solve the crisis for behavioral health patients, the patients truly receive the care they need at the right time and at the right location. This webinar will focus on practices like collaboration on community resources, streamlining care within the community and emergency departments, telemedicine utilization, and managing workplace violence – as well as the positive impacts they are having on caring for behavioral health population.
Learning Objectives:
- Develop collaboration strategies between community and hospital/healthcare organizations
- Recognize benefits of leading practices of telemedicine with psychiatric population
- Identify risks and responses to workplace violence associated with psychiatric patient population
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Session 4: Improving Health Outcomes Through Effective Operations to Enhance Population Health Management and Equity
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. MST
Presented by Matthew Berkley
Population health management (PHM) is a framework that aims to improve a population’s health by focusing on the health needs of individuals. Effective PHM is crucial in the healthcare industry because it can reduce costs, improve quality, and enhance patient outcomes. Additionally, it can help reduce health disparities and achieve equity in health outcomes. In this session, we will discuss the importance of effective population health management in healthcare and its relationship with equity in health outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
· Gain a comprehensive understanding of the PHM framework, including its goals, strategies, and significance in the healthcare industry.
· Learn how efficient operational practices can enhance the quality of care, reduce healthcare costs, and improve overall patient outcomes within the context of population health management.
· Examine how effective PHM strategies can address and reduce health disparities, contributing to equitable health outcomes across diverse populations.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to be part of this learning experience, brought to you by the collective expertise of this collaboration of MHA and Huron.
Space is limited, so we encourage you to register early and reserve your place in this exclusive webinar series.
For additional information on these presenters and Huron, please visit Huron’s website here.
The MHA Health Summit is the premier educational opportunity to jump-start member learning for a new season. This one-of-a-kind event will offer a trade show and a wide range of educational topics to include emerging health equity trends; population health and quality improvement best practices; advances in telehealth; rural health transformation; how to be an effective leader; the future of healthcare; and much more. We are now accepting abstract submissions and speaker proposals for this in-person event.
Check back for more information!
Thank you for viewing“No Surprises Act” with Martie Ross and Kathy Reep from PYA. Below you will find links to some of the referenced materials to include the recording of this webinar.
Handouts and Resources:
PYA Healthcare Transparency Implementation Guides
CMS Requirements Related to Surprise Billing
Recording:
Click here to access the recording of this webinar.
The 2025 Montana Healthcare Conference is a collaborative event offered by the Montana Hospital Association and co-sponsored by the Montana Primary Care Association. It is the largest healthcare education opportunity in Montana. Participants experience interdisciplinary topics with a focus on general trending issues. By partnering with affiliate organizations in the state, we can offer education targeted to their members’ needs.
The event offers three keynote sessions, multiple concurrent sessions, networking opportunities, the largest exhibitor trade show in the state, and more. Participants from every facility in Montana can expect to gain insight into leadership, new technology, industry trends, quality excellence, and human motivation.
The 2024 Montana Healthcare Conference, hosted by the Montana Hospital Association in collaboration with the Montana Primary Care Association, stands as the premier gathering of healthcare professionals in Montana. Drawing attendees from almost every hospital and community health center across the state, this event boasts over 450 participants representing a diverse range of roles such as CEOs, administrators, trustees, CFOs, HR executives, physicians, nurse leaders, clinic managers, quality improvement professionals, risk managers emergency preparedness planners among others.
Attendees will benefit from unparalleled education and networking, including access to more than 50 educational sessions and Montana’s largest healthcare trade show designed to connect colleagues and potential business partners to innovative and cost-effective solutions. The conference features national and international speakers alongside local industry experts who cover a wide range of relevant topics.
This program is aimed at those in management positions and focuses on improving management and leadership skills, regardless of facility or department. The program encompasses interpersonal communication and basic management skill development.
