The Best Of The 2024 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute In Clearwater Beach, FL

Gettysburg, PA. (February 25, 2024) – February 13-15, 450 health and human services executives gathered in beautiful Clearwater Beach, Florida for The 2024 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute. This one-of-a-kind executive event is renowned for its dedication to performance optimization in organizations serving consumers with complex needs.

The institute kicked off on Wednesday, February 13 with two executive seminars:

• Getting To The Right Scale: The OPEN MINDS Executive Seminar On Growth Through Mergers, Acquisitions & Affiliations
• How To Build (& Succeed With) Value-Based Payer Partnerships: An OPEN MINDS Executive Seminar On Best Practices In Marketing, Negotiating & Contracting With Health Plans

On February 14 the institute opened with The Challenges & Opportunities For National Multi-State Non-Profit Specialty Provider Organizations: The C-Suite Perspective, featuring keynote presenters:

• Simona Cataldo, Chief Executive Officer, Victor
• Joe Dan Beavers, CPA, MHA, President & Chief Executive Officer, Lifeskills, Inc.
• David Guth, Chief Executive Officer, Centerstone
• Patrick Maynard, Ph.D., President & Chief Executive Officer, I Am Boundless
• Shar Najafi-Piper, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Copa Health

The day continued with The 2024 OPEN MINDS CFO Summit, sponsored by Continuum Cloud. The all day summit featured many perspectives on the toughest challenges, and solutions, facing CFO’s managing specialty acute care, home based services, FQHC/primary care, for profit and nonprofit community-based care organizations. Featured presenters included leaders from Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, Cenikor, Citrus Health Network, Community Based services, Hillsides, Mainstay Life Services, and Victor.

Then on February 15 the institute opened with Becoming A Center Of Excellence: Navigating Challenges, Embracing Opportunities & Collaborating With Health Plans, featuring keynote presenters:

• Elisha Engelen, MA, LMFT, Vice President, AON
• Stuart L. Lustig, M.D., MPH, National Medical Executive For Provider Partnerships, Evernorth
• Debra Nussbaum, Ph.D., LCSW, Senior Director For Behavioral Health Evidence Based Services & National SUD Strategy Lead, Optum
• Robert Poznanovich, Chief Growth Officer, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Throughout the week, the institute agenda sported a robust lineup of industry leaders and executives, such as:

• Promoting Outside The Box: Using Net Promoter Score & Alternative Methods For Lasting Consumer Success, Featuring leaders from Benchmark Human Services and Easterseals Midwest
• Primary Care Evolution: Exploring The FQHC Model For Expansion, Featuring Community Alliance and CommWell Health
• Harnessing The Power Of Predictive Outcomes & Analytics In Measurement-Based Care, Featuring Adelphoi and Devereux
• Roadmap For Implementing Value-Based Payments, Featuring Jackson County Community Mental Health Fund
• Stay Ahead: 2024 Payer Insights & Trends Uncovered, Featuring Optum
• From Medicaid Dependency To A Thriving Commercial Book Of Business – Revenue Diversification For Growing Organizations, Featuring Recovery Unplugged

For a complete list of sessions and speakers, visit performance.openminds.com. Attendees of the event will have access to sessions on-demand for thirty days. OPEN MINDS Circle Elite members have unlimited access to institute presentations for the duration of their membership.

For more information on any of OPEN MINDS’ educational programs, upcoming sponsorship opportunities, or media inquiries, contact the Executive Education Events team at 717-334-1329 or events@openminds.com

Exhibitors at the Institute included: 5e Analytics, Alera Health (Formerly Blaze Advisors), Altruix, Cantata Health Solutions, CapGrow Partners, LLC, Carelon Behavioral Health, CCNY, Continuum Cloud, Core Solutions, Inc., Genoa Healthcare, Health Information Management Systems (HiMS), i3 Healthcare Solutions, iCentrix Analytics, innovaTel Telepsychiatry, Netsmart, NextGen Healthcare, oracle, Owl, QI Folio, Qualifacts Behavioral Health, Relias, SimiTree, Streamline Healthcare Solutions, Therapy Brands, ZMark Health

Institute Partners:

• Premier Partners:  NephU, Netsmart, NextGen Healthcare, PsychU, Qualifacts Behavioral Health
• Gold Partners: Alera Health (Formerly Blaze Advisors), ContinuumCloud, Core Solutions, Inc., Easterseals Midwest, Easterseals UCP – North Carolina & Virginia, LifeSkills, Project HOME, Volunteers Of America
• Affiliate Education Sponsors: 5e Analytics, Altruix Pharmacy, Augintel, Brightside Health, Cantata Health Solutions, Carelon Behavioral Health, CCNY Inc., Eleos Health, Evernorth, eVero Corporation, Exym, Five Points Technology Group, Genoa Healthcare, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Health Information Management Systems (HiMS), iCentrix Analytics, i3 Healthcare Solutions, Inovalon, Integrative, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mend, Millin Associates, Optum, Owl, SimiTree, Streamline Healthcare Solutions, The BI Collaborative, Therapy Brands, Waypoint Interactive, ZMark Health

About OPEN MINDS

OPEN MINDS is a national market intelligence, management consulting, and marketing services firm specializing exclusively in the markets of the health and human service field that serve consumers with chronic conditions and complex support needs. OPEN MINDS mission is to provide payers, service provider organizations, and technology and scientific firms that serve these consumers with the market and management knowledge needed to improve their organizational efficiency and effectiveness.