Leadership & Workforce track

• Preventing burnout and strengthening resilience through practical self-care and shared governance strategies
• Optimizing perioperative staffing models for stability, flexibility, and performance
• Building, retaining, and developing high-performing, diverse perioperative teams
• Strengthening leadership presence, emotional regulation, and decision-making in high-stakes environments
• Leading confidently through change, uncertainty, and organizational transition
• Improving communication across surgeons, staff, sterile processing, and interdisciplinary teams
• Implementing onboarding, succession planning, and leadership pipeline development strategies
• Enhancing operational leadership fundamentals, including turnover time optimization
• Ensuring safe, compliant practices through effective surgeon credentialing and role clarity

Business Management Track

• Preparing for reimbursement changes, including elimination of the Medicare Inpatient Only list
• Financial survival and growth strategies for rural hospital perioperative departments
• Capital planning best practices to support strategic expansion and technology investment
• Supply chain optimization and solutions to today’s vendor and sourcing challenges
• Mastering vendor and payor negotiations to protect margins
• Managing labor and equipment costs without compromising quality or access
• Driving surgical service line profitability and sustainable growth
• Solving the anesthesia equation to align clinical coverage and financial performance
• Leveraging performance reporting and dashboards to engage the C-suite and Board
• Connecting patient experience improvements to measurable financial outcomes

ASC & Outpatient Track

• Preparing for reimbursement shifts, including new CPT codes and elimination of the Medicare Inpatient Only list
• Solving anesthesia service and subsidy challenges in the ASC setting
• Mastering payor negotiations to protect and maximize reimbursement
• Strengthening inventory asset management, capital planning, and cost control strategies
• Evaluating ASC joint ventures and strategic growth opportunities
• Adding new service lines: key do’s, don’ts, and financial considerations
• Achieving and maintaining survey readiness with insight into what surveyors are looking for
• Building a strong ASC culture that engages staff and elevates the patient experience
• Exploring AI use cases in the ASC environment, including workflow and labor impacts
• Succession planning to ensure long-term leadership stability

Operations, Efficiency & Technology Track

• Driving first case on-time starts through team-centered accountability strategies
• Using data-driven insights to optimize OR throughput and perioperative resource utilization
• Applying AI and predictive analytics to improve forecasting, scheduling, and performance
• Transforming the OR into a high-performance surgical platform
• Actively managing daily operations to eliminate bottlenecks and inefficiencies
• Winning the block time battle with smarter allocation and utilization strategies
• Leveraging dashboards and command centers to turn perioperative data into action
• Ensuring successful adoption and ROI from new OR technologies
• Understanding the operational impact of surgical robotics on workflows and performance
• Scaling surgical volume while improving patient safety and quality outcomes

Quality, Safety & Regulatory Readiness Track

• Designing, activating, and safely opening new perioperative environments
• Strengthening cybersecurity protections to safeguard surgical workflow and patient safety
• Understanding the legal and regulatory implications of nurse staffing requirements
• Advancing patient identification practices to eliminate preventable errors
• Achieving and sustaining year-round survey readiness
• Building and maintaining a high-reliability organization culture
• Tracking evolving infection prevention standards
• Strengthening collaboration between infection prevention and perioperative teams
• Improving medication safety, sterile technique, environmental hygiene, and audit accountability
• Protecting staff from sharps injuries, bloodborne exposure, ergonomic risks, and workplace violence
• Refreshing emergency preparedness plans and aligning safety and quality metrics with performance goals

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