Engagement Spotlight: Department of Veterans Affairs
The Department of Veterans Affairs is engaged in a multi-year strategic transformation initiative called T-21. As part of this strategy VA is designing and implementing an enterprise construct to manage its portfolio of over 1,500 health care facilities. Working under the auspices of the National Institute of Building Sciences, we provided leadership to a multidisciplinary team of VA executives, staff from central offices and the field, and a team of external subject matter experts across the disciplines of health care and facilities management. Our work involved providing strategic guidance, operational and process improvment, organizational change management, organizational design, and project management. The multi-year initiative will continue througth 2011- 2012. Read more about the engagement here.
Articles and White Papers
ACOs: Look Before You Leap, CFO Forum, Healthcare Financial Management Association, June 2011
Taking the Pulse of Your Facilities, Strategic Financial Planning, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Spring 2011
Repurposing the Post-Occupancy Facility Evaluation, CFO Forum, Healthcare Financial Management Association, February 2011
Critical Elements of a Facilities Master Plan, Strategic Financial Planning, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Winter 2011
What Do We Know that Isn’t So?, Catalyst Perspectives 2009
After the Merger: A Strategic Framework for Integration, Strategic Financial Planning, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Winter 2009
Margins Squeezed? Here’s Where to Find Operational Efficiencies, HealthLeaders Online, October 6, 2008
5 Actions to Instill Financial Accountability, Healthcare Cost Containment, Healthcare Financial Management Association, June 2008
Crisis or Opportunity: Reimbursement Cuts and Management’s Response, Michigan Health & Hospitals, September/October 2000
Press
Robert Betka is quoted in the August 15, 2011 issue of American Medical News about healthcare reform's impact on hospital systems.
Robert Betka is quoted in the January 2011 issue of ACO Business News on attribution methodologies for implementing the ACO requirements of PPACA.
Robert Betka is quoted in Becker's Hospital Review on key trends for hospitals in 2011.
Robert Betka is interviewed for Becker's Hospital Review on how Accountable Care Organizations will function.
Robert Betka is quoted in Becker's Hospital Review on a number of specific challenges facing community hospitals.
Selected Presentations
"Making Sense of Performance Improvement Methodologies," private client presentation, January 2010
"Building a New Payment System," Facilitator, HFMA Second Annual Thought Leadership Retreat, Washington, DC, September 2008
"Adding Value for CIS Implementation Success," CHIME Annual CIO Forum, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 25, 2006
"Best Practices in Revenue Cycle Management," presented at HFMA National Managed Care Conference, Long Beach, California, September15, 2003; HFMA, Savannah, Georgia, November 6, 2003; HFMA, Baltimore, Maryland, December 1, 2003
"Reducing Premium Labor Costs", national teleconference presenter and moderator, 2003
"CPOE: Best Practices from Pioneering Organizations," presented to numerous hospitals nationally, 2002-2003; national teleconference presenter, 2003
"Throughput Reform and Capacity Management," presented to numerous hospitals nationally, 2002-2003
"Recovering Physician Loyalty," presented to numerous hospital boards and medical staffs nationally, 2002-2003
"Surgical Services Reform" and "Emergency Department Reform," presented to numerous hospitals nationally, 2002-2003
"Innovations in Nurse Recruitment and Retention," presented to numerous hospitals nationally, 2000-2001
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