America’s 30 Best Hospitals; Healthcare Reform; 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare; Is the AMA the Worst Trade Association Ever?; Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management Driven Ambulatory Surgery Center Conference: Improving Profitability and Business and Legal Issues – June 10-12, Registration Discounts Available
1. Becker’s Hospital Review is proud to include America’s 30 Best Hospitals in this issue. The hospitals on this list are organizations that establish the standard for excellence. If you have any thoughts on this list, please contact sbecker@mcguirewoods.com.
2. It has been an incredibly interesting couple of months in the healthcare world. This issue includes several items related to healthcare reform and its impact on hospitals, physicians, physician-owned hospitals and ASCs. It includes articles related to current factors influencing and challenges facing hospitals and their service lines.
3. It also includes the first ever Becker’s Hospital Review / Becker’s ASC Review 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare, a list of organizations that includes hospitals, surgery centers, practices and companies.
4. For a copy of an article entitled “Is the AMA the Worst Trade Association Ever?,” please contact sbecker@mcguirewoods.com.
5. We have our 8th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management Driven ASC Conference on Improving Profitability to be held June 10-12, 2010. This includes great speakers and topics of interest to hospitals and health systems, including presentations on buying and selling ASCs, spine and orthopedics in physician-owned hospitals, how to convert at ASC to a hospital, hospital employed physicians, the future of healthcare, a talk by healthcare futurist Joe Flower, a talk by the National Political Director of the Atlantic Media Company Ron Brownstein and a great deal of physician leaders speaking. Overall, it has 90 sessions and 112 speakers. The deadline for early registration is May 1. If you register by May 1, you will receive an additional $200 discount if registering for the entire conference. To register, call (703) 836-5904 or send registration via fax to (703) 836-2090. To register online, go to https://www.ascassociation.org/june2010.cfm. A portion of the conference brochure is also enclosed herewith, beginning
on p. 27.
If you have any questions, please contact me at (312) 750-6016 or at sbecker@mcguirewoods.com.
Very truly yours,
Scott Becker
P.S. To sign up for the Becker’s Hospital Review E-Weekly, please e-mail sbecker@mcguirewoods.com or go to www.BeckersHospitalReivew.com.