Agenda
Wednesday, June 18 | Pre-conference activities
HANYS’ golf outing will take place at the Saratoga Spa Golf Course. After lunch, join us for our pre-conference session and opening reception at The Saratoga Hilton.
Noon
HANYS golf outing
Tee times will be confirmed two weeks prior to the event and range from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Swing your way into the conference with some competition and camaraderie! Whether you’re a serious golfer or just want to do some casual putting and enjoy the outdoors, our golf outing will allow you to relax and have fun before we jump into our main educational programming on Thursday and Friday. As the saying goes: Work hard, play hard.
All golfers will receive a complimentary boxed lunch.
3 – 5 p.m.
Pre-conference session
Sg2’s three-year industry outlook: Now, near, next
Bill Woodson, Senior Principal, Sg2
In this interactive session, national thought leader Bill Woodson will lead a discussion on the major forces shaping the healthcare industry over the next three-plus years. He’ll cover a variety of topics, including capacity management, workforce, the growth outlook across the System of Care, AI and the future of health system planning. Audience participation is encouraged. Attendees will gain new insights into the evolving market and a new set of assumptions for shaping growth and strategy.
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Welcome reception
Reception sponsor: 
All conference registrants are welcome.
Kick off the conference by enjoying delicious light bites, an exclusive cocktail and stimulating conversation. Attendees are encouraged to visit our sponsor tables to learn more about a variety of products and services to assist you in your daily operations.
6:30 p.m.
Dinner
Enjoy an evening of dinner on your own and explore exciting Saratoga Springs!
Thursday, June 19 | Conference sessions
7 – 9 a.m.
Breakfast and check-in
Our Conference Hub will be available throughout the day for check-in and information.
8 – 10 a.m.
HANYS board of trustees meeting
This meeting is open to all HANYS members.
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Blue Zones: 9 lessons for living longer
Nick Buettner, Vice President, Community Engagement, Blue Zones Project
To find the path to long life and health, Blue Zones’ team studies communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. During this session, Nick Buettner will share the nine common diet and lifestyle habits — Power 9® — that keep people spry past age 100 and how these can be incorporated into routine care. What should your community members be doing to live longer lives? Buettner debunks the most common myths and offers a science-backed blueprint for the average American to live another 12 quality years. Give your patients and community members the tools they need to live longer, healthier lives.
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Everything, everywhere, all at once: Improving performance across the entire organization with safe, effective AI
1 ACHE Qualified Education credit
Justin Norden, MD, MBA, MPhil, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Qualified Health, and Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford Medicine
Dr. Justin Norden will guide attendees through how to safely continue building AI into seemingly everything, everywhere, all at once. AI tools are currently used to automate administrative processes, improve clinical quality and reduce provider burdens. How can you manage all these tools, continue to implement new tools while scaling use across the organization, and still ensure your tools are continuously monitored and tested, safe and secure? To answer these questions, we’ll look at the latest tools, the value received and the importance of an enterprise plan to ensure appropriate AI use across the entire health system.
2 – 3 p.m.
Breakout sessions
From shared to professional governance: A framework for nursing accountability, engagement and excellence
1 ACHE Qualified Education credit
Beverly Hancock, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CENP, FAAN, Director, Transformative Leadership: Systems DNP Program, Department of Women, Children and Family Nursing, and Assistant Professor, Rush University College of Nursing
Hospital clinical staffing committees were created with the vision of shared, formal structures to enable health system leaders and frontline staff to jointly make decisions that impact patient care and outcomes. Now that committees have worked through several cycles of staffing plans, the challenge lies in ensuring that collaboration is meaningful and productive, not just ornamental.
Beverly Hancock will discuss the important distinction between shared and professional governance and share outcomes realized when nurses in all roles express accountability and ownership of nursing practice using the framework of professional governance. Hancock will also review leadership behaviors and tools that contribute to creating an environment where nurses can practice with expertise, are accountable to advance care and collaborate in the continued transformation of healthcare.
Learning objectives
- explain the professional obligation and evidence for professional governance, including the impact on workforce engagement and patient care and outcomes;
- identify best-practice strategies to engage and empower direct care nurses and leaders; and
- adapt your approach to hospital clinical staffing committees to improve and hardwire professional governance.
Using the latest technology to reduce burnout, increase efficiency and improve patient experience
Eve Cunningham, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Cadence
Dr. Eve Cunningham will share her expertise in integrating digital health, virtual care and AI tools into clinical processes, turning the clinician technology burden upside down and creating a better care experience for all. She will also discuss how attendees can harness the latest technology to improve the care experience for clinicians and their patients. We’ll review the technologies, implementation strategies and results possible when you harness the latest AI, virtual care and digital tools for patient interaction and documentation.
Great boards: Distinguishing the line between governance and management
1 ACHE Qualified Education credit
Craig Deao, MHA, Managing Director, Huron
It’s no surprise that a CEO and board must work together to successfully lead an organization. Where do you believe the line between governance and management should be? When analyzing an issue, does your board ask too many questions, too few or none at all? Does your board take the time to evaluate how effective their governance activities are? Each board must set its own boundaries on governance versus management decisions and make sure to continuously revisit this line. This session will review tips for helping CEOs navigate and enhance their relationships and communication with their boards.
3 – 3:15 p.m.
Break
3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Building and retaining the healthcare workforce for the future: Actionable strategies for leaders to improve workforce well-being
Kate Hilton, JD, MTS, Co-founder and Principal, Innovation Capital
Addressing chronic and persistent workforce shortages is a top priority for healthcare leaders in New York and across the country.
The Workplace Change Collaborative, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, created a unique partnership between the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Moral Injury in Healthcare and American Federation of Teachers to advance new thinking on burnout, share successful strategies and inform policy at the national level.
Kate Hilton will provide an overview of WCC and key learnings and IHI’s Guiding Principles for Improving Health Care Workforce Well-Being. By practicing these values, leaders can develop and sustain successful well-being initiatives and create healthier environments where healthcare workers can thrive.
Learning objectives
- identify actionable strategies to strengthen relationships, improve operations and build trust to support workforce well-being;
- adapt successful strategies used by others in New York and around the country; and
- implement leadership strategies based on IHI’s workforce well-being guiding principles.
HANYS 100th Anniversary Celebration
Hall of Springs, Saratoga Spa State Park
Transportation to the Hall of Springs will be available beginning at 5:30 p.m.
5:45 – 7 p.m.
Cocktail reception
7 – 9:30 p.m.
Dinner
The dress code for dinner is dressy casual. Think light, comfy fabrics and classic silhouettes. Please no jeans, shorts or tees.
HANYS could not have achieved this milestone without YOU. Join us to celebrate the success of our first 100 years and recognize the distinguished service of our entire membership with a special dinner and presentation. Then, meet us on the dance floor for a DJ’ed setlist, dive into some dessert and mingle with your colleagues and special guests to end the night.
Registrants are welcome to bring a guest for an extra fee. There is no fee for conference attendees.
Friday, June 20 | Conference sessions
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.
Inside the circus: Post-election 2024 with John Heilemann
John Heilemann, Creator, Executive Producer and Host, The Circus, and National Affairs Analyst, NBC News and MSNBC
The campaigns are over, but the real story of the 2024 elections is just beginning. John Heilemann brings his decades of political reporting expertise to unpack what happened, why it happened and what it means for the road ahead. Against a backdrop of social and economic uncertainty and a deeply divided electorate, Heilemann explores how the results will shape America’s political, cultural and global trajectory. With his trademark storytelling and insider knowledge, he takes audiences behind the headlines, providing a candid, thought-provoking look at the forces reshaping the nation — and the implications for 2025 and beyond.
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Fixing the plane while flying it: Making good policy in a dynamic world
Moderator: Paul Francis, Chairman, Step Two Policy Project and former Secretary of Health and Human Services under former Gov. Cuomo
Bea Grause, RN, JD, FACHE, President, HANYS
Melinda Person, President, New York State United Teachers
Healthcare is 20% of our nation’s economy, and as such, its viability and volatility have major implications for all sectors, public and private. Across the country, persistent challenges such as affordability, diminishing access to care and workforce shortages have made it especially difficult to coalesce on policy solutions that would help update New York’s healthcare infrastructure. This panel discussion will highlight perspectives from HANYS President Bea Grause, New York State United Teachers President Melinda Person and other industry leaders on how to move toward lasting healthcare reform and implement effective policy. Paul Francis, former Secretary of Health and Human Services under former Gov. Cuomo, will moderate the panel, adding his own unique healthcare expertise to the discussion.
11:15 a.m.