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Annual Small & Rural Hospital Summit

May 20-22, 2009
Salem Conference Center, Salem Oregon

The 2009 Rural Hospital Summit focused on strategy and solutions to meet the top challenges facing rural hospitals.  With bad news rolling out every day, now more than ever we need to meet to recharge and share ideas that will refresh our journey and further our rural health agenda.

The program featured the following sessions:

• "How do we distill the value of leadership today?"
  Greg Paris, Studer Group 
• "Undaunted in Daunting Times"
  Keynote address by Stacy Allison, first American Woman to summit Mount Everest.
• "Collaboration to Create Value: What Healthcare can Learn from the Automobile Industry"
  Keynote address and strategy session with Nate Kaufman, leading health care business analyst.
• "The Financial Forecast - Know your Market Leverage Your Resources"
  Panel Discussion, Dougherty Mortgage, Neenan Company, and Stroudwater Associates
• "The Strategy Focused Hospital: Linking Strategy to Operations to Achieve Great Results" 
  Scott Goodspeed, PMI
• "National Trends and Issues"
  John Supplitt, Senior Director, AHA.
• "Advances in Telemedicine: Oregon Innovation and Success Stories"
  Grande Ronde Hospital NRHA's 2009 Outstanding Rural Health Organization.
• “Physician Hospital Relationships: Marriage of Convenience, Wedded Bliss or Family Feud?”
  Daniel P. Stech, MBA, CMPE, Pinnacle Products and Innovation
• Networking and Strategy Sessions.
• Meet your Legislator- Reception and Networking