Schedule and Seminars
Schedule and Speakers Subject to Change. Updated 2-09-10.
Wednesday, June 9
2:00 - 7:00pm Room Check In at Hank Ingram Hall
MFI Registration & Packet Pickup
7:30 - 9:30pm Dinner & Ice Breaker Social - BOSCOS
Thursday, June 10
7:00 - 7:45am Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00am Attendee Introductions & Business Card Exchange; Introduction of MFI Sponsors
9:00 - 10:00am Welcome & Medical Fitness 101: Orientation to Effective Medical Fitness Models
The role of your facility in healthcare is different from other facilities in your community. Understanding what sets a medically integrated facility apart from others and how the industry and the Medical Fitness Association came to be will help you lead others in this field. Medical Fitness 101 provides a solid background in understanding key issues that differentiate medical fitness centers in their market.
10:15 - 11:15am The Tools for Effective Leadership
You manage assets, you lead people. Strong leadership will develop your entire operation into an effective and efficient machine.
11:30 - 12:45pm Expanding Your Horizons Through Clinical Integration
Clinical integration is one of the key factors distinguishing a medical fitness center from other facilities. Within a medical fitness center, programming generally ranges from formal intervention/rehabilitation programs to developing activities that either serve as a transition between clinical interventions/rehabilitation and fitness programming and those that address prevention, health-risk reduction, and therapeutic lifestyle factors. Learn the role of clinical integration as it relates to programs and services and the strategies for implementation.
12:45 - 1:45pm Lunch
1:45 - 3:00pm The Bottom Line - Financial Management 101
Managing a medical fitness center takes expertise in more than health and fitness. You need to understand basic financial concepts and to have the ability to speak with and work with your organization’s finance department in order to be successful.
3:15 - 4:30pm Strategic Planning
A strategic plan helps keep you on track amidst the hectic day-to-day operation of a medical fitness center. Learn how to develop, implement and find success with a strategic plan.
4:45 - 6:00pm Benchmarks for Success: Tracking Performance
Why should you track your center's performance and develop a monthly Flash Report? What industry standards are currently monitored? A thorough review of current benchmark strategies and the 2010 Benchmarks for Success results will be discussed.
6:00 - Midnight Evening on Your Own
Friday, June 11
8:00 - 8:30am Breakfast
8:45 - 10:00am Marketing and Maximizing Sales: Keys to a Retail Business Model
Fitness is a retail business. Selling, advertising and promoting your business is a large part of what you do. Understanding your market area and developing retail strategies that best reflect your marketplace can provide a solid foundation for financial success and a positive Return on Investment (ROI).
10:00 - 11:15am Recruiting and Retaining the Right Staff in Medical Fitness
As a manager you are a leader of people. Hiring and motivating the right people with the right credentials for employment in a medical fitness center is perhaps the single most important duty you have. Your staff is the reason members decide to stay or to drop out and sets the facility apart from others. Keeping good staff leads to keeping members.
11:30 - 12:30pm Communicating with Your Healthcare Partner
Numbers, vision, values, mission, margin: you must know how your facility supports or should support your healthcare partner. Just as important, you must be able to communicate by speaking in their language, using their model of benchmarking and finding your place in their vision to show your contribution in the continuum of care.
12:30 - 1:45pm Lunch
1:45 - 3:15pm The Medical Fitness Difference: Facility Standards & Guidelines and Facility Certification
Making a difference……. The MFA Standards and Guidelines were developed as a road map for managers like you to develop best practices for medical fitness centers in an effort to meet the needs of your community. The MFA Facility Certification is a tool to be used in conjunction with the Standards and Guidelines to ensure a medical fitness center is maximizing its role in the continuum of care for the prevention and management of disease.
3:30 - 4:45pm Exercise is Medicine: Filling the Exercise Prescription and Building Bridges with Physicians
The national initiative, Exercise is Medicine™ was launched in 2007 by the AMA and the ACSM with the goals of clinicians assessing patients’ Physical Activity Vital Sign (PAVS) and prescribing exercise to every patient at every visit as appropriate. Appropriately designed and executed physician referral programs can bring these patients from the doctor’s office to your fitness facility. This lecture will address the most reliable methods of engaging physicians in prescribing exercise and increasing their confidence in your staff's ability to care for their patients.
6:30pm Board Bus for the Evening Activities
7:00-7:45pm Tour - Nashville Downtown YMCA - MFI Sponsors Showcase Equipment
8:00-11:15pm Wildhorse Saloon - Live Music and Dinner
11:30pm Bus departs for Return to Vanderbilt
Saturday, June 12
8-8:30am Breakfast
8:30-9:45am Software Systems: Today's Technology
How can the latest technology improve the efficiency of your center? What questions should you ask when purchasing software? Do you want a front desk management system or do you need outcomes data? Or Both?
10:00-11:30am The Idea Warehouse and MFI Mentorship Program
MFA is YOU. As a professional membership organization, the MFA leadership is made up of members who have dedicated themselves to improving the industry. Learn how you can help and how you can ensure your ideas get included. Discussions will be based on issues and comments submitted by attendees during the event. In addition, details of the MFI Mentorship program will be discussed.
11:30am Raffle Drawing for MFA 2010 Annual Conference Registration, San Diego. MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN.
Schedule and Speakers Subject to Change. Updated 2-09-10.
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