Just as our location changes, so do our topics! They are relevant, timely, and reflect input from our membership. Our agenda will address issues in research, the clinical enterprise, and teaching/training in addition to national healthcare trends. Come to network with your colleagues from other academic institutions in one of the world's best cities for entertainment, good music, and great food.

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Will academic medical centers sink or swim?

Academic medical centers' three-pronged mission — education, research and patient care — makes them uniquely vulnerable to financial pressures.

These institutions have thrived as centerpieces in the American healthcare landscape. Now they face their own kind of financial and governance distress.

Hospitals and health systems affiliated with medical schools face some of the highest costs across all healthcare institutions. Designed to deliver complex, specialized care, they are simultaneously saddled with the costs of supporting medical education and research.

Because many are based in urban areas, they often end up treating a disproportionate share of Medicaid or under- and uninsured patients for emergency, Level 1 trauma and psychiatric emergencies. Approximately 60 percent of AMCs' business comes from Medicaid, Medicare and other government programs.

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What healthcare leaders need to do to improve value for patients 

More and more health care organizations are beginning to track their performance on outcomes – and they’re finding that getting started isn’t easy. The change that’s needed can be overwhelming. Measuring outcomes requires redesigned workflows, enhanced coordination across departments, and investment in new resources.  Above all, it requires strong resolve and adept leadership.

So how are today’s health care leaders implementing outcomes measurement in their hospitals and clinics? Through our experience working alongside many of them, we’ve identified five leadership imperatives:
 

1. Find the believers. Focus on finding clinician champions who want to know their outcomes and want to be transparent with their colleagues. Many of them are likely to be collecting outcomes data already, albeit in an unstructured and not scalable way.  Clinician champions are critical in generating momentum for the program and to help resolve early challenges. Read More

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2) Once you have successfully logged in with your WORK email address, go to groups.google.com to administer your account. 

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Do you share our passion for finding new ways for members to connect electronically? Contact Jennifer Collins to join Josh Ryder-Miller, Brian Spector and Annemarie Lucas on the Technology Development Committee.

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NAAPA News is published twice annually in the Spring and Fall. The goal to provide its members with organization updates, conference information, and industry-specific data. NAAPA members are encouraged to submit articles for consideration for publication in the next issue.
 

Here are examples of potential areas of interest for articles:

• Practical advice and thought-provoking information targeted specifically for Psychiatry Administrators;
• Opinion pieces about issues affecting the healthcare industry;
• Case studies that outline how you and/or your department implemented a new process or best practice;
• Web-based resources that NAAPA members can use to gain information about a related topic;
• Updated information on industry hot topics; 
• Professional and leadership development information and resources.

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