July 30-31, 2007 • The Ambassador East • Chicago, IL

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If you want to increase revenues, develop a new working relationship with your physicians and provide world-class services to your patients, this conference is for you. You will discover how hospitals and physicians can enter into contractual joint venture partnerships in order to maximize hospital performance, raise capital, develop facilities, and expand specialty services. You will hear unique and innovative case studies of successful joint ventures, as well as how to:

• Increase hospital revenue through the expansion of ancillary services
• Improve physician relations and physician satisfaction while simultaneously improving revenue streams
• Ensure that all federal and state regulations are addressed and the organization remains in compliance
• Maximize and grow hospital market share while maintaining the highest level of quality, affordable healthcare
• Align hospital and physician economic incentives to improve financial performance

SPECIAL POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP FROM
NEUSTRATEGY & UNGARETTI AND HARRIS

Achieving Hospital-Physician Alignment through Clinical Integration

Keeping abreast of the ever-changing dynamics of the healthcare industry is more important than ever – especially with an increased focus on evidence-based medicine and pay for performance.

Workshop participants will explore the alignment of objectives through clinical program integration. Our workshop facilitators will draw on their expertise from more than 100 neuroscience, orthopaedic and related specialty healthcare consulting engagements for both academic and community hospitals.

The workshop will address the critical success factors to partnering with academic and private physician practices of all sizes.

This workshop will focus on the practical issues of achieving hospital-physician alignment and will use actual case studies to examine:

• Assessing clinical opportunities
• Understanding how focused healthcare drives critical mass and why critical mass
  is fundamental to joint ventures
• Organizing Centers of Excellence
• Evaluating your opportunities
• Developing COE contractual joint ventures
• Evaluating equity joint ventures, including:
  • Common models
  • Key considerations
  • Regulatory hurdles
• Evaluating your opportunities for joint ventures formation

ABOUT YOUR WORKSHOP LEADERS:

Theodore Michalke is a Founder and Managing Partner of NEUSTRATEGY, a healthcare consulting firm based in Chicago. Prior to NeuStrategy, Ted was a Senior Vice President at NeuroSource where he launched and oversaw the company’s neuroscience and orthopaedic consulting services as well as the company’s joint-venture physician-hospital partnerships. Before joining NeuroSource, he headed development for the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch (CINN) and helped found the American Gamma Knife Network.

Lynn Gordon, JD a Partner in the firm of UNGARETTI AND HARRIS in Chicago, practices exclusively in the area of corporate healthcare law. A Loyola University Chicago School of Law graduate, Lynn has a particular interest in the transactional, regulatory and operational legal counsel needs of hospitals and health systems, including mergers and acquisitions, hospital-physician joint ventures, contract drafting and negotiations, physician recruitment and corporate compliance.

PANEL DISCUSSION

Keys to Success: How To Develop and Maintain Healthy Physician-Hospital Relationships Ingo Angermeier Chief Executive Officer SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Josef Ghosn, MBA, EdD Vice President, Strategic Planning FLORIDA HOSPITAL Stephanie Spiegel President and Chief Operating Officer NEUROLOGIC AND ORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Richard Culbertson, PhD Former Board Chair, Current Board Member AURORA HEALTH CARE Anthony Smaldino, DPM Project Manager BENBROOK MEDICAL CENTER

Hear unique insights and strategies from national healthcare leaders, including:

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