Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting
The OHA Annual Meeting offers a premier opportunity to gain valuable insight about statewide industry trends, network with your peers and achieve a better understanding of the health care issues and policies most likely to impact your organizations.
May 19-21, 2025 | Hyatt Regency Columbus
Plan now to join members of the Ohio hospital community for the 110th annual gathering of the Ohio Hospital Association membership. This three-day event brings together multidisciplinary professionals within OHA’s Hospital and Health Systems membership to inspire creative thinking, share innovative approaches, provide professional continuing education and collaborate with peers on issues affecting Ohio hospitals. We provide a setting where OHA members can gather to learn, discuss thoughts, network, share ideas, create new ideas, ignite motivation and expand their knowledge.
Who Should Plan to Attend
OHA hospital and hospital system leaders and managers in all service lines and operational roles are encouraged to attend. Staff members and trustees of OHA member hospitals and OHA corporate partners may register for the educational sessions.
Check back at the end of 2024 for more program information.
Call for Presentations
You are invited to contribute to this important event by submitting a proposal for an educational presentation. Presentations will be 60 minutes in length, including time for questions and answers.
You are not limited to a sub-category within a track, however we suggest that you keep your presentation proposal relevant to a designated sub-category within the track you choose. Presentations with general applicability are preferred over presentations that may only appeal to a small constituency of the hospital community.
Selection Criteria
Submissions will be reviewed by one or more selection committees. Committees are composed of OHA member representatives, members of professional membership groups and OHA staff.
Criteria for selection include:
- Relation to hospital leadership, staff, physician or trustee educational needs
- Timeliness of content
- Clarity of proposal
- Presenter subject matter knowledge and expertise
- Completeness of submission
Submission Deadline
Proposals must be submitted to OHA no later than Friday, Dec. 13. If you have questions regarding submission of this proposal, please contact Casey Strader, manager, Education & Events, at Casey.Strader@ohiohospitals.org or call 614-384- 9133.
Please complete all sections of the application. Submissions are not considered until all sections are completed.
Sub-Categories
1. Prevention
2. Intervention
3. Education/Training
4. De-escalation
5. Reporting
6. Response
7. Threat Management
8. Crisis Management
9. Active Assailant
10. Safe Workplace Initiatives
11. Accreditation readiness as it pertains to hospital violence
12. Vulnerability Assessment
13. Psychological safety
14. Effective Strategies
Sub-Categories
1. Workforce Pipeline
2. Workforce Efficiency Solutions
3. Workforce Transformation
4. Models of Care
5. Scope of Practice
6. Upskilling
7. Artificial Intelligence
8. Building Multi-Generational Teams
9. Image
10. Organizational Action
11. Workplace Culture
12. Diversity and Inclusion
13. Psychological Safety
14. The “Work” in Workforce
Sub-Categories
1. Recruitment/Retention
2. Compensation Strategies
3. Benefits
4. Education/Training
5. Generational Differences/Characteristics
6. Counseling/Discipline
7. Employment Law
8. Bargaining Units/Negotiations
9. Diversity and Inclusion
Sub-Categories
1. Employee Well-Being Programs
2. Service Animals
3. Exercise
4. Stress Programs
5. Trauma Programs
6. Resiliency Programs
7. Trauma response teams
8. Mental health assessments
9. Mental health referrals
10. Organizational Culture
11. Psychological Safety
Sub-Categories
1. Dashboards/metrics/measuring success in DEIB
2. DEIB strategies in healthcare leadership and governance development
3. Bias
4. DEIB strategies for rural hospitals
5. Strategies for an inclusive culture for patients and employees
6. Collaborating with the community on health equity strategies
7. Evolving role of the chief diversity officer
8. Health Disparities
9. Community Health Needs Assessments
Sub-Categories
1. Physician Leadership Development
2. Physician Recruitment/Retention
3. Succession Planning
4. Contracting
5. Role of Executive Sponsor
6. Medical Executive Committee Strategies
7. Evolving Roles for Physician Leaders
8. Role of the Physician Advisor
9. Physician Well-Being
10. Effective Practices in Medical Staff Services
11. Telehealth/Telemedicine
Sub-Categories
1. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging pertaining to nursing practice
2. Innovative academic partnerships
3. Nursing Innovation
4. Patient Care Unit/Service Line Business Planning
5. Change Management
6. Effective Communication
7. Strategic Planning
8. Nursing Licensure Implications
9. Patient Care Challenges
10. Impairment
11. Telehealth/Telenursing
12. Nursing Management Development
13. Nursing Succession Planning
14. Mentoring Nurses
15. Nursing Recruitment/Retention
16. Nursing Education
Sub-Categories
1. Patient Safety
2. Worker Safety
3. Hospital Safety
4. Psychological Safety
5. Population Health
6. Health Outcomes
7. Clinical Quality
8. Sepsis
9. Infant Health
10. Maternal Health
11. Opioids
12. Stewardship
13. Community Investment/Community Benefit
14. High Reliability Organization (HRO)
Sub-Categories
1. Board Governance Issues
2. C-Suite Effective Practices
3. Executive Sponsorship
4. Business Planning
5. Change Management
6. Effective Communication
7. Strategic Planning
8. Leadership Resiliency
9. Community Investment/Community Benefit
10. High Reliability Principles
11. Cyber Security
Sub-Categories
1. Effective payer strategies/payer relations
2. Streamlining revenue cycle
3. Optimizing reimbursement
4. Strategies to reduce administrative burden
5. Do’s and don’ts of value-based payments
6. Emerging challenges and potential solutions
7. Navigating the latest Medicare/Medicaid policies
Sub-Categories
1. Patient Privacy and Confidentiality
2. Health IT Security
3. Employment and Labor
4. Liability / Litigation
5. Medical Staff/Physician Relations
6. Stark/Anti-kickback/Fraud and Abuse
7. State Regulatory
8. Transactions
9. Antitrust
10. Credentialing/Peer Review
11. Partnerships
12. Payer Relations
13. General/Other Legal Issues
Sub-Categories
1. Risk Management Department Structure
2. Patient/Family Complaints
3. EMTALA
4. Enterprise Risk Management
5. Criminalization of Medical Errors
6. Disclosure
7. Risk Mitigation Strategies
Sub-Categories
1. Data Analytics
2. Technology
3. Disruptors
4. Public Health Data
5. Leveraging Data Sets
6. Geospatial Data & Visualizations
7. Cyber Security
Sub-Categories
1. Applications
2. Implications
3. Technology
Sub-Categories
1. Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Reporting/Social Stewardship
2. Environmental Justice
3. Net-Zero
4. Decarbonization
5. Renewable Energy
6. Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
7. Waste Management (Recycling, Food Waste/Organics, Hard to Recycle Plastics, etc.)
8. Air Quality
9. Water Management and Quality
10. Sustainability Planning and Goal Setting
Sub-Categories
1. Life Safety Standards
2. Environment of Care Standards
3. Staffing Challenges
4. Physical Plant Issues
5. Water Safety
6. Vendor/Contractor Issues
7. Weather Events
8. Construction to Occupancy
9. Fire Safety Protection
Sub-Categories
1. Pandemics
2. Epidemics
3. Awareness
4. Preparedness
5. Response
6. Communication
7. Local/Regional/State/National Coordination
8. Action Plans
9. Incident Command Center Strategies
10. Cyber Security
Sub-Categories
1. Crisis Communication
2. Reputation Management
3. Community Relations
4. Branding
5. Marketing Communications
6. Social Media
OHA Contact
Casey Strader
Manager, Events and Education