Chief Executive Officers
CEO Healthcare Roundtable
The Healthcare Roundtable in partnership with the CEO Advisory Network is excited to announce the formation of a new exclusive membership group of high-caliber Chief Executive Officers who lead non-competing hospitals and health systems throughout the nation.
CEO Healthcare Roundtable Members meet exclusively twice a year to interact and explore common healthcare issues, experiences, projects, management challenges, and visions of future trends. They will benefit from in-depth educational sessions with industry experts with ample time to discuss real-life, real-time problems and future issues that they will be facing. CEO Roundtable Members will identify and share tools and resources to help them navigate the transformations occurring within America’s healthcare system today.
One of the biggest advantages for the CEO Roundtable Members will be to gain insights and benefit from exposure to many of the country’s top healthcare thought leaders and innovators. Members will build lasting relationships and gain knowledge from colleagues who are experiencing similar challenges while navigating the transformational changes and uncertainties occurring within America’s healthcare system. These relationships will bring immeasurable value to the Members and their organizations throughout the years to come. We believe that Membership in our programs will provide significant benefits, individually and organizationally that cannot be attained through other programs.
The CEO Roundtable Group
How The CEO Roundtable Works
The CEO Roundtable Groups will meet two times per year, on the same dates, and at the same hotel locations, for separate but concurrent, 2-1/2 day interactive sessions with different agendas.
Participants will
work with the CEO Roundtable to identify the issues they want to explore
and the experts they want to hear from. A typical Roundtable Meeting
will feature 3-5 speakers (outside speakers and/or Members themselves)
making presentations, both formal and in
formal, on recent trends and
innovative projects. During these interactive discussions, Members will
have an opportunity to “deep dive into the topics” share experiences,
hear of failures and successes and learn innovative approaches to the
issues facing healthcare today.
The Members will also enjoy the cross-pollination of ideas during Open Discussion sessions. Members are encouraged to present the issues/problems they are facing so that fellow Members can advise one another as peer consultants.
Membership Non-Compete Policy
Members from non-competing, not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems will join the selected Group on a first-come, first-served basis. Once an individual CEO joins The Roundtable, his or her organization’s competitors -- defined as those entities that compete directly for patients within their geographic market area -- will not be allowed to join and must be waitlisted. Our goal is to create a learning environment in which Members can freely share at the highest levels with the full expectation of privacy and confidentiality. This is only possible when there are no competitors in a given Roundtable.
Meeting Agendas & Learning Formats
Prior to each Meeting, a theme or overall focus will be identified and developed based on input and feedback directly from the Members. An Agenda will then be created incorporating the interests and suggestions of the Members for Outside Speakers. The Agenda will also include timely, brief Member-presented Case Studies of interest based on the Member’s own leadership challenges and experiences.
Following a presentation by an Outside Speaker, the speaker will be asked to participate in an open dialogue session, such as an informal interview conducted by the Roundtable Meeting Facilitator and/or a Q&A session with the attendees. The speaker may also be available for informal conversations and networking during breaks or meals. Outside speaker sessions may last 3 to 4 hours, to encourage a “deep-dive” approach toward a particular subject area.
Member Case Study Presentations 
Case studies may take several forms including, but not limited to, an in-depth case study of a program or issue related to the Roundtable theme, or a panel discussion with 2-3 members presenting their respective organizations’ experience related to a specific topic. Ample time will be allotted for discussion and Q&A from the Roundtable participants who may also be asked to react to the presentation by either sharing their organizations’ experience or offering advice to the presenter(s). All members presenting case studies will be expected to be totally transparent with not only sharing successes but also sharing failures and lessons learned.
During the Roundtable, each Member will also be invited to share One Innovative Idea they have recently pursued that brings noteworthy benefit (measured through cost savings, increased revenue, increases in patient, physician, or employee satisfaction, increases in quality, etc) and is relatively easy to implement. Through this simple format, Members return home with a bounty of ideas that can be quickly operationalized in order to bring great value to their organizations.
The Healthcare Roundtable and CEO Advisory Network Partners
The Healthcare Roundtable
The Healthcare Roundtable, founded in 1994 by Dick Rand and Heidi Matic, is one of the originators of the Executive Roundtable concept where professionals interact to share experiences, management challenges and future trends and issues. With over 200 active Members representing leading hospitals and integrated delivery systems nationally, Roundtables include C-Suite Executives with specific Roundtables for Chief Executive Officers, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Medical Officers, Chief Information Officers, Managed Care & Revenue Officers, Patient Care Services Executives, General Counsel, Employed Physician Networks, and Corporate Compliance Officers. The value of the Roundtables can be demonstrated by the fact that approximately 60%-65% of each Roundtable group has been meeting together for five or more years with new Members joining all the time.
The CEO Advisory Network is a team of highly accomplished healthcare leaders firmly grounded in senior level executive experience. Recognized nationally as leaders of Truven Top 100 Hospitals, US News & World Report Top Hospitals, JACHO Codman Award winners and many others, their passion is to leave a lasting legacy by assisting today’s forward looking CEO’s and senior executives in leading their organizations on their individualized path during these transformational times. Members of this new Roundtable Group will have continual access to these powerful and experienced leaders who are available to assist in any way they can. We believe this type of new and innovative CEO leader will be actively looking for outstanding mentors to learn from and to emulate. The CEO Advisory Network Team will be actively engaged at each CEO Roundtable session oftentimes presenting case studies, facilitating the interactive meeting process and working individually with members. Additionally, the Team will be highly involved in the development of the meeting curriculum and recruitment of top quality, highly credentialed speakers.
CEO Advisory Network Members
William H. Considine - FACHE, CEO Emeritus of Akron Children’s Hospital and CEO for the past 40 years, has dedicated both his career and personal life to improving pediatric care and the quality of life for children and families. He is one of the longest-tenured hospital chief executives in the country and is an internationally known advocate for issues affecting children’s health and well-being. He is widely consulted by policymakers in Columbus and Washington, D.C., and he has served on the boards of many healthcare, educational and cultural organizations.
Marty Hauser - Marty Hauser is the Director and Facilitator of the CEO Healthcare Roundtable for the CEO Advisory Network. He currently serves as Vice President, Business Development, ExactCare Pharmacy. In this role he is responsible for developing strategies and relationships with health plans. ExactCare specializes in comprehensive medication management for members with multiple chronic diseases and on multiple medications. Prior to joining ExactCare, Marty was a founder and former President & CEO of SummaCare, Inc., a provider-sponsored health plan affiliated with Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio. Under his leadership, SummaCare, created in 2000, and its subsidiary APEX Benefits, grew to over 250,000 members with clients in five states and over $500 million in annual revenue. In addition to his role at SummaCare, Marty served in a variety of roles at Summa Health System in the finance and planning areas and as System VP & Chief Government Relations Officer for all entities owned by Summa Health System.
David Jimenez
- David is an accomplished executive with a proven track record in
clinical transformation. Named by Modern Healthcare among the Top 25
Minority Healthcare Executives and the 100 Most Powerful People in
Healthcare, David has held a number of prominent healthcare positions
including COO for Catholic Healthcare Partners, now known as Mercy
Health, which operates 23 hospitals across Ohio & Kentucky. David
was elected in 2007 a Regent-at-Large for American College of Healthcare
Executives. He has leveraged his hospital CEO experience to transform
quality, finance, and operations through extensive work with system
governance structures.
Frank L. Lordeman -
Frank has over 40 years of senior executive leadership experience in
nationally recognized major integrated multi-hospital health systems.
Most notably he served as Chief Operating Officer of the Cleveland
Clinic Foundation and Health System which, under Frank’s leadership,
were nationally recognized by US & News Report as a Top 5 hospital
nationally in 15 specialties and awarded Truven Top 100 Major Teaching
Hospital for 6 consecutive years. Most recently, Frank has worked with
the WellStar Health System in its strategic expansion into the largest
health system in Georgia. Frank has dedicated his career to
transforming healthcare organizations, while reaching the highest level
of quality, and attaining maximum organizational performance.
Nancy Steiger - Nancy is a visionary and mission-driven leader who creates outstanding outcomes by creating high-performing teams and partnering and collaborating with all stakeholders from board members to individuals in the community. She is skilled at looking at the big picture and then solving systemic, process and resource issues. An authentic and courageous mentor and coach she has deep experience in healthcare starting out as an RN and most recently as CEO of PeaceHealth’s Columbia Network. Her current efforts focus on being of service and making a profound difference in today's changing healthcare environment.
Thomas Strauss
- Tom is a strategically minded and financially focused proven
executive with experience delivering high growth profits from
entrepreneurial ventures including start-ups, joint ventures,
partnerships, turnarounds, mergers, and integrations. Most recently,
Tom served as CEO of the Summa Heath System, which included a major
Health Plan, SummaCare, with over 250,000 enrollees. Most notably, Tom
served on the Board of Premier during its years of expansion into the
largest national healthcare GPO and Quality Information organization.
Tom is passionate about building and sustaining healthcare cultures
that align the focus on patient care delivery and satisfaction.
Rebecca Sykes - Becky is an accomplished senior management executive with information management, information systems and hospital management experience. She possesses a unique combination of information technology, data acquisition and healthcare process knowledge. Most recently, she served as Chief Operating Officer, Senior VP of Resource Management and CIO at Mercy Health Select in Cincinnati, OH, where she managed $11 million in Medicare shared savings in their first year of operation and oversaw a $400 million initiative to implement the Epic electronic health record system. She led the consolidation of Mercy Health's information technology function merging their seven health systems into one centralized organization called Mercy Health Information Technology (MHIT). Becky has worked in several leadership roles throughout her nearly 22 year career at Mercy Health including Senior VP of Information Management, Supply Chain, Shared Services Accounts Payable and CIO.
Alan R. Yordy
- Alan is a senior executive with a consistent and extensive history of
positive business outcomes in turnarounds, start-ups, and merger &
acquisition environments. Most recently, Alan served as the CEO of
PeaceHealth, a 10-hospital health system located in the Western United
States. An accomplished healthcare executive, he has significantly
influenced healthcare policy initiatives and programs serving on
numerous regional and national boards for major insurance and provider
organizations. Alan has leveraged his change management skills to build
a significant employed medical group, develop a health plan and
aggressively grow PeaceHealth.
How to Become a New Member
We believe that the CEO Roundtable will be a significant added value to you and your organization. We welcome new members who desire to become top executives in our field. Unfortunately, we have a very strict non-compete policy and can only consider applicants on a first-come first-served basis. To reserve your membership, please contact The Healthcare Roundtable.
Membership Fees
Members pay $12,500 per year which entitles them to attend two consecutive Roundtable Meetings.