The Healthcare Leadership Series, presented by The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS, provides the opportunity to hear relevant insights, lessons and perspectives from global healthcare experts. These healthcare leaders are among those tasked with charting the path forward as the world continues to navigate an everchanging healthcare landscape in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing an invaluable wealth of industry knowledge and experience to the discussion.  Join us for a range of conversation topics impacting healthcare and hospitals, including COVID-19 and the ongoing vaccine rollout, value-based care, population health and health disparities, supply chain, cybersecurity, healthcare policy and more.

Hosted by The Center for Health Affairs, the Workforce Roundtable features an impressive panel of national and regional healthcare experts with knowledge and insight into how to best address the current healthcare staff shortage facing hospitals in Northeast Ohio and across the entire United States healthcare system. 

Designed to examine the critical workforce shortage while also focusing on the healthcare workforce of tomorrow, this event showcases insights and strategies for addressing this growing challenge while answering the question: How do we address healthcare staffing shortages while also building trust among patients, employees and our community?

Other key takeaways include:
• Communicating benefits of healthcare education
• How to best attract and keep employees
• Building diversity in our healthcare system
• Impacts of an improved healthcare workforce

MODERATOR:
Sherry Kolb, RN, President Emeritus, Qualivis

SPEAKERS:
Alan K. Nevel, SVP, Chief Equity Officer, The MetroHealth System
Toni Cunningham, State Network Director - Ohio, Unite Us
David Leopold, Partner, Ulmer & Berne LLP
Jane Oates, President, WorkingNation

Workforce Roundtable: The Healthcare Workforce of Tomorrow

David Barnes is the V.P. of Global Workforce Policy at the IBM corporation. David leads IBM’s global agenda in workforce public policy and oversees IBM’s advocacy on a range of issues including the future of work, skills based recruitment, diversity, and corporate responsibility. He engages on the future of work with government leaders at the G7, the EU, and at the OECD.

In this conversation David speaks with Brian Lane, President & CEO at The Center of Health Affairs. They discuss the great resignation, employee retention, the digitization of business, the American nursing crisis, and more.

The Future of Work: In Conversation with IBM's David Barnes

Healthy Northeast Ohio, a neutral data repository for regional population health data, launched publicly in December 2019. Regional partners interested in community health may utilize the Healthy Northeast Ohio platform at healthyNEO.org to access more than 250 health indicators, evidence-based practices, and information about community health improvement strategies. This innovative platform brings non-biased data and local resources to a single, user-friendly location.

In this event, Libby McGraw and Sarah Szabo provide a detailed overview of the platform and its many capabilities.

Healthy Northeast Ohio: A Regional Community Health Data Platform

Can you identify the impact of moral injury in the workplace? Dr. Goldenberg MD and Maureen Sweeney RN lead a discussion on effects of the pandemic on healthcare staff and the entire healthcare system through the lens of moral injury. With emphasis on solutions to move towards healing, this presentation includes a focus on the shared responsibilities of individuals, systems and society in our next steps together.

Key takeaways:
• Understand moral injury
• How to heal our systems and ourselves
• Building resilience in the workplace by creating ethical culture
• The effects of moral injury caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

Moral Injury and Shared Trauma: Healing our Systems and Ourselves

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unparalleled challenges for healthcare in the United States. In Northeast Ohio, with many still working tirelessly to coordinate care for patients struggling with Opioid Used Disorder (OUD), all while navigating disruptions and lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These unique challenges created precarious scenarios for providers and patients, who have had to adopt new strategies to deal with the uncertainty of the pandemic.

The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, a hospital system-based and physician-led collaboration housed at The Center for Health Affairs, is giving attention to this issue by hosting this virtual town hall with experts in various ends of the continuum of care model. These thought leaders will discuss the path forward, how the pandemic has reshaped care and provide tips and resources for members of the community who are struggling with OUD or have people close to them who are struggling with the disease.

An Epidemic Within the Pandemic: Evolution of the Crisis

The Center for Health Affairs (The Center) is proud to announce the 'Collaboration to Innovation' grant. This grant, in partnership with IPC Global, provides the opportunity for one research project to employ the innovative inProcess Research platform to empower healthcare research. Collaboration to Innovation provides access to a research environment that increases teamwork championing the collaborative decision making and democratized analysis process created by the inProcess Research platform. 
Eligibility for grant participation extends to verifiable researchers from a nonprofit, commercial, government or academic research health system or institution.


In this event, The Center's Endrit Meta and IPC Global's Mark Meersman offer an overview of the inProcess Research platform and provide additional details regarding this incredible grant opportunity.

Collaboration to Innovation Grant: Cloud Computing Empowers Healthcare Research

Finding and securing federal resources can be a daunting task for your organization. Thankfully, it doesn't have to be. Join us as Innovative Funding Partners' (IFP) Brian Kelley, Louise Mathias, and Carrie Davis provide an overview of the federal funding landscape. IFP's team of highly-experienced consultants is passionate about helping organizations meet the needs of their local community and better serve their constituents by securing grant funding. In this event, Kelley, Mathias and Davis will provide insights into current grant opportunities, trends and forecasts. In addition, they'll also offer tips for building coalitions and collaborative programs.

The Federal Funding Landscape: Grant Opportunities, Forecasts, and Insights

On March 24th, The Center for Health Affairs held a corporate sponsorship kickoff event, with keynote address from Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb. In this webinar we revisit the speeches given that wonderful evening. Mayor Bibb is joined at the podium by: 

Brian Lane, President & CEO of The Center for Health Affairs

Susan Fuehrer, President of the Institute for H.O.P.E., Chair of our Community Health Affairs Board

Heidi L. Gartland, Chief Government and Community Relations Office for University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Chair-Emeritus for The Center for Health Affairs' Board of Directors

The Center for Health Affairs Sponsorship Kickoff Event

For opioid use disorder and substance use disorder (OUD/SUD), academic detailing can be especially useful in reducing overprescribing, discussing misuse of opioids and substances and exploring pain management options. In this talk, The Center for Health Affairs' Jeri Jewett-Tennant and The MetroHealth System's Christine Fishman will provide a detailed overview of academic detailing and cover steps to starting a similar program within your health system.



In addition, other key takeaways will include:

- Understanding what academic detailing is
- Recognizing how it can be used to improve patient outcomes related to opioids
- Knowing how academic detailing is accomplished

Academic Detailing: Conveying Clinical Best Practices via Trusted Messengers

During the second episode of the Leading Health Innovation series, join The Center for Health Affairs to learn how ORock Technologies’ offerings provide data infrastructure that delivers the best performance from every angle while lowering your organization’s costs. No matter what industry your organization is in, ORock Technologies allows your team to modernize your data infrastructure while pushing a cloud priority that comes with lower costs. In an era of increased threats to every organization’s data, ORock’s solutions enable users to store, analyze and protect all of their organization’s confidential data under the strictest regulations complying with HIPAA, HITECH, PCI DSS and FedRamp.

Leading Health Innovation: ORock Technologies' Data Infrastructure Solutions

In the first episode of the “Leading Health Innovation” series, join The Center for Health Affairs to learn more about our new Dynamic Health Performance Indicators framework, powered by Transpara, and how to maximize your data to allow for better decision making for organizational success. The Dynamic HPI framework provides a powerful environment that allows users to dynamically view and analyze multiple data sources in real-time. The Center for Health Affairs has delivered a COVID-19 application to allow for monitoring and analysis of pandemic-related data to provide organizations and communities the ability to make better, more informed decisions faster with higher accuracy.

Leading Health Innovation: The COVID-19 Dynamic HPI Environment

Did you know Cleveland is a leader in holistic medical-legal partnerships? The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland helped create the first medical-legal partnership in Ohio with The MetroHealth System nearly two decades ago, and today there are embedded Legal Aid attorneys and paralegals who work collaboratively on-site at various MetroHealth, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center and University Hospitals locations. Legal Aid attorneys and medical providers collaborate together to solve legal issues that are barriers to health. Medical-legal partnerships integrate the unique expertise of lawyers into health care settings to help clinicians, case managers, and social workers address structural problems at the root of so many health inequities.

Medical-Legal Partnerships to Improve Patient and Community Health

In the final episode of this three-part virtual series on hospital community benefit, The Center for Health Affairs is hosting member hospitals Cleveland Clinic, Southwest General Health Center and University Hospitals for a panel discussion on hospital research and health professional education programs. As part of the defined curriculum for community benefit, the world-renowned research and health professional education programs offered by Northeast Ohio hospitals are at the forefront of scientific innovation.

Host & Moderator: 

Patricia Terstenyak
Director of Community Health, The Center for Health Affairs

Presenters:

Dr. Grace McComsey
Vice President of Research and Associate Chief Scientific Officer, University Hospitals

Cheryl O’Malley
Chief Transformation Officer and Vice President of Population Health, Southwest General Health Center

Dr. Dana Schneeberger
Research Administrator, Cleveland Clinic's Center for Clinical Research

Hospital Community Benefits: Providing Research & Health Professional Education

This episode will feature four community leaders who are leading their nonprofit organizations through uncertain times. Moderated by Patricia Terstenyak, Director of Community Health at The Center for Health Affairs, this panel discussion will explore how small to midsize community groups have made pivots in strategy and explore what impact COVID-19 has on their mission and the communities they serve.

Patricia Terstenyak, Director of Community Health, The Center for Health Affairs - Moderator
Andrew Newsome, Strategy Director, Cleveland Can’t Wait
Jessica Walters, President/CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland
Natalie Leek, President and CEO, Providence House
Victor Ruiz, Executive Director, Esperanza

How Community & Nonprofit Organizations Pivoted During COVID-19

This session will include a robust discussion with former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Interim Chief Data Officer (CDO) Jose Arrieta. Mr. Arrieta will discuss the impact COVID-19 has had on data management and enterprise Information technology management in a virtual world, including cybersecurity, block chain, IT strategy and innovative/emerging technologies. The conversation will also address key factors to consider in the revolution of supply chain nationally, as well as globally, through the use of transformative information technology approaches.

COVID-19 & Beyond: How the Pandemic Impacted Data & Enterprise IT Management

In the second episode of its three-part virtual series on hospital community benefits, The Center for Health Affairs is hosting member hospitals MetroHealth, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, Mercy Health and Ashtabula County Medical who will detail ongoing community building and community health improvement programs available to Northeast Ohio residents. Each program provided by Northeast Ohio hospitals aims to help communities overcome barriers to living healthier lives. These programs are helping improve the health of Northeast Ohio communities by helping connect citizens with social resources such as mental health care, legal aid for housing and providing referral networks to connect with community organizations.

Moderated by: Brian Lane, President & CEO, The Center for Health Affairs

Presenters:

Karen Cook
Director, Healthy Families & Thriving Communities (MetroHealth Institute for H.O.P.E.)

Jennifer Kinsley, Esq.
The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

Thom Olmstead
Director of External Affairs, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center

Tina Stasiewski
Vice President of Business Development, Ashtabula County Medical Center

Catherine Woskobnick
Vice President of Mission Integration, Mercy Health Lorain Hospital

Hospital Community Benefits: Taking Action for Community Health Improvement

In the first episode of a free three-part virtual series on hospital community benefit, The Center’s SVP Lisa Anderson and finance and reimbursement project manager Bob Kaliszewski will set the scene around community benefit by discussing the federal reporting requirements necessary for these endeavors and which types of programs and initiatives are considered hospital community benefit.

Community Benefit Series Objectives & Series Goals:
•	Position programs, efforts and expertise in front of engaged community members
•	Increase awareness of hospital community programs
•	Educate and inform community members on what counts as a community benefit
•	Engage and educate community members to better understand the programs hospitals provide to the community
•	Identify how our member hospitals continuously help improve community health
•	Increase recognition of the community benefits Northeast Ohio hospitals provide

Hospital Community Benefit Series: Community Benefit 101

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals have stepped up their game in order to exploit vulnerable individuals and organizations. Issues such as HIPAA non-compliance, identified as a seven-figure risk in 2021, remain at the front of healthcare cybersecurity professionals’ minds. Join host Brian Lane, president and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs, and panelists Ali Pabrai, CEO of compliance and cybersecurity solutions provider ecfirst, and Leigh Anderson, CIO of healthcare improvement company Premier Inc., as they discuss the state of healthcare cyber risk in the present day and the application of HITRUST and CMMC standards to achieve advanced cyber defense.

Healthcare Cyber Risk: Advancing Cyber Defense

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