Financial Sustainability Takes Center Stage At The 2025 OPEN MINDS CFO Summit, Sponsored By ContinuumCloud

Clearwater, FL – As health care infrastructures become increasingly complex, Chief Financial Officers grapple with the complexities of funding essential investments, while protecting long-term economic sustainability to enable the continued delivery of care. Organizations of all sizes are relying on CFOs to play transformative roles in strategic planning, conquer profit margins, evaluate financial issues across service lines, and apply best practices to manage growth. These key topics are taking center stage at the OPEN MINDS CFO Summit, a specialized curriculum at the 2025 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute in Clearwater Beach, Florida, February 13^th. The summit is sponsored by ContinuumCloud and will gather hundreds of top healthcare financial leaders seeking to learn from their peers, formulate industry best practices, and create healthcare-specific action plans for 2025.

Media is invited to attend and will be facilitated interviews with industry leaders upon request.

Event Details:

• Date and Time: Thursday, February 13, 2025 | 9:45 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. EST
• Location: Sheraton Sand Key Resort – Clearwater Beach | 1160 Gulf Blvd, Clearwater Beach, FL 33767
• Register: performance.openminds.com/health-care-cfo-summit/

Key Sessions:

• How Citrus Health Diagnoses & Improves Margin Issues For The Organization & Its Service Lines

Join speaker Jose Garcia, CFO of Citrus Health Network, as he shares insights on evaluating service line margins and diagnosing financial issues across mental health, primary care, and foster care services. Attendees will learn how Citrus Health weighs the value of service line synergies and contracting opportunities against poorly performing services, and strategies to increase margins while maintaining its mission.

• Strategies To Reduce Unit Costs & Improve Contract Profitability With Mainstay Life Services

Discover effective strategies for cost reduction and better contract rates with speaker Jodie Esper, CFO of Mainstay Life Services. She will share essential tools and insights to enhance your organization’s profitability through unit cost reduction and improved rate negotiations.

• Financial Sustainability Through Participation In Provider Networking: The WakeMed Case Study For Increasing Consumer Volume

Learn how Thomas Klatt, Executive Director Behavioral Health Network of WakeMed, demonstrates the advantages of partnering with smaller organizations to secure larger contracts, boost patient volumes, and enhance overall rates. Explore the essential performance metrics needed to build high-performing behavioral health provider networks.

• Taking The First Step: How To Estimate The Financial Resources Required For Growth Get the inside scoop from Greg Santilli, CPA, CIA, Chief Financial Officer at Hillsides, and Ray Wolfe, J.D., Senior Associate at OPEN MINDS, about estimating the financial resources needed for growth. This session will focus on identifying key metrics and formulas to calculate financial growth requirements and understanding the indicators that suggest difficulty in growth without external intervention.

The OPEN MINDS CFO Summit is one of numerous executive development opportunities extended to CFOs and CEOs annually through the one-of-a-kind OPEN MINDS CFO Consortium, sponsored by ContinuumCloud, which provides the tools and ability to strategically assess and position organizations for longer-term sustainability and growth.

The consortium offers the following high-quality benefits to participants:

• Attendance in the 2025 OPEN MINDS CFO Summit, sponsored by ContinuumCloud
• Four on-site/face-to-face financial executive networking sessions each year
• Access to interactive financial calculators and tools
• A financial executives online technical assistance group with monthly updates
• A series of online financial management roundtable discussions throughout the year
• On-demand resources

Please click here to learn more about joining the OPEN MINDS CFO Consortium.

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

Exhibitors at the Institute included:
Altriux, Alera Health, Beacon Crisis Dispatch, CapGrow, Carelon, Cantata, CCNY, ContinuumCloud, Core Solutions, Genoa Healthcare, Guard1, iCentrix, Inovalon, Juno, MedSuite, Netsmart, NextGen, Qualifacts, Woods System of Care, Zoobook Systems, Zmark

Institute Partners:

• Premier Partners: Alera Health, ContinuumCloud, Core Solutions, NephU, PsychU, Qualifacts
• Gold Partners:  Easterseals Midwest, Easterseals UCP – North Carolina & Virginia, LifeSkills, Netsmart, Project HOME, Otsuka Market Access, Volunteers Of America
• Affiliate Education Sponsors: 5e Analytics, Altruix Pharmacy, AxiomEHR, Brightside Health, Cantata Health Solutions, Carelon Behavioral Health, CCNY Inc., ContinuumCloud, Eleos Health, Five Points Technology Group, Genoa Healthcare, Grafton Integrated Health Network, Gaurd1, Hartman Executive Advisors, iCAREManager, iCentrix, Inovalon, Insperity, Juno, MedSuite, Mend, Mertz Taggert, NextGen, Optum, Oracle Health, Owl, Radicle Health, ServiceWorks, Shiftability, Sigmund Software, SimiTree, Streamline Healthcare Solutions, Therapy Brands, The BI Collaborative, Thoughtful AI, ThriveWell Tech, Vista Research Group, VistaCare, Inc., Waypoint Interactive, ZMark Health and Zoobooks.

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.