This webinar originally aired Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 10 AM CST
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As hospitals’ construction budgets continue to be frozen, maximizing bed capacity is critical to handle growing patient volumes. Yet solving patient flow and overcrowding issues is often addressed at a department level. Patient flow improvements, however, require a multi-disciplinary approach with strong executive endorsement.
Attend this educational webinar and you will:
- Achieve proven patient flow improvements through automation
- Expedite patient placement to reduce emergency department overcrowding
- Maximize bed usage by eliminating wasteful delays in bed turnover
- Improve overall patient care
Participants include:
David Entwistle
Chief Executive Officer
University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics
Quinn L McKenna
Chief Operating Officer
University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics
Anthony Sanzo
President & CEO
TeleTracking Technologies
Moderated by:
Fawn Lopez
Publisher
Modern Healthcare
Chief Executive Officer
University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics
David Entwistle is the Chief Executive Officer for University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics. Mr. Entwistle has been with UUHC since Feb 2007. His primary duties include oversight of all Hospitals and Clinics operations.
Prior to this Mr. Entwistle was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for six years at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. Entwistle also worked as the Vice President of Operations at City of Hope National Medical Center (COH). Mr. Entwistle concurrently held the position of Chief Executive Officer of Oncology Management Services Incorporated (OMSI), a wholly owned Management Services Organization of City of Hope National Medical Center.
Mr. Entwistle received his Masters degree in Health Services Administration from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and his Bachelors in Health Sciences at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He completed a post-graduate fellowship in Healthcare Administration at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
Chief Operating Officer
University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics
Quinn McKenna is the Chief Operating Officer at the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. McKenna has 20 years of leadership experience in a variety of health care organizations. In his current role, Mr. McKenna is responsible for working with the executive team to develop strategies to ensure the hospital’s ongoing financial viability and fulfill its safety, satisfaction and quality priorities.
During Mr. McKenna’s career, he has served in senior executive positions in a variety of organizations. Prior to coming to the University of Utah Hospital, he was also the Chief Operating Officer at the University of Washington in Seattle and Salt Lake Regional Medical Center. Prior to these roles he also served as operations administrator with the Sisters of Providence. His career has emphasized strategic program development and operational accountability. Early in his career Mr. McKenna also served for 10 years as a management consultant to more than a dozen of the countries premier academic medical centers. This experience also emphasized strategic program development and operational accountability.
Mr. McKenna earned his Master of Health Administration from the University of Washington and also has a Bachelor of Science in Business Finance from the Utah State University as well as a minor in economics.
President & CEO
TeleTracking Technologies
A hospital executive since the late 1970's, Mr. Sanzo brings a solid understanding of the operational challenges faced by hospitals. Since 1980, he has held senior and executive positions for two major academic medical centers and was named Chief Executive Officer for one of those institutions, for over a decade. Prior to joining TeleTracking, he co-founded two healthcare consulting companies, Ethos Capital, LLC, and Transition Management Group. In addition to his roles of President, CEO and Director of TeleTracking Technologies, Mr. Sanzo is active in the Pittsburgh technology community. He is Chairman of Net Health Systems, Inc., a health informatics company providing disease state management tools. Mr. Sanzo is a graduate of Allegheny College and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
UUHC is an academic medical center comprising the University Medical Center, Huntsman Cancer Hospital, Orthopaedic Hospital and the Neuropsychiatric Institute. The health system has approximately 23,000 inpatient admissions and 1.2 million outpatient clinic visits per year. UUHC is a major center for teaching and tertiary care for the region. UUHC is recognized as a national leader in cancer treatment, ophthalmology, surgical specialties and orthopedics. In FY 07 UUHC had an annual net revenue budget of $603 million with a net income of $17 million. The organization employs over 5,500 people.
It is consistently ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals, and its academic partners at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy, and Health are internationally regarded research and teaching institutions.
As part of that system, University Hospitals & Clinics offers services in more than 120 specialties and serves as the clinical training ground for nearly 2,000 students and more than 600 medical residents, fellows, and interns.
TeleTracking Technologies is the hospital industry’s leading provider of patient flow and capacity management solutions. With over 700 clients and more than 1,600 installations, TeleTracking has a proven track record of helping hospitals automate the workflow processes associated with efficient patient throughput. Since 1991, we’ve been setting the industry standard in automating bed management and patient throughput with BedTracking®, the Bed Management Suite™ with the electronic bedboard® & TransportTracking™. TeleTracking’s solutions have helped hospitals reduce emergency department overcrowding and diversions, increase patient throughput, decrease patient wait times, improve patient satisfaction and show a measurable return on investment.
