Every person has the power to live a GREAT life because each of us holds the key to unlock that power. That power lives in the way we think. And the “key” is applying tools to ReTrain your Brain. But how can you do this? It’s simple and anyone can do it.
In this talk, Dr. Summer Knight shares vignettes of her own stories and those of her clients to impact the audience on immediate ReTraining techniques to change the way they think to gain better results. She shares the simplicity of the techniques and the amazing transitions these tools have on people’s lives. There are no secrets: Retraining your brain means retiring the neural pathways that do not serve you and developing new neural pathways that do.
This talk incorporates Transformation in the way a person thinks to get the results they want. Then, taking it a step forward, incorporates the strategy to transition from where a person is today to where they want to be in the future. The techniques pull from Dr. Summer Knight’s experience as both a business entrepreneur and executive as well as her clinical experience in helping her clients obtain their targeted results for wellness – with a twist of what would a firefighter/ paramedic do? The goal of this talk is to empower individuals to actively clarify the trajectory to live their GREAT life.
This talk can also be incorporated into a pre-team building exercise as it introduces the concept of being GREAT in all aspects of a person’s life and helps people to commit to their team, their organization, and their goals.
Dr. Summer Knight orchestrates how organizations and their teams can align their focus in order to incorporate a culture of “GREAT”. This means that all members of the team are able to understand what it takes to focus on the Vision and Mission to facilitate organization-based cultural shifts to becoming and maintaining GREATness in the market place. Team members will understand that they tap into their own GREATness when they are members of a team and an organization that is excelling. During this speech, we talk about the basic actions important to the very lifeblood of every business: Strategy to Execution to Revenue to Profitability. This motivates all team members to strive to be the best in their positions, realize the best position and activities they can take at excel in their own work thus reflecting positively on themselves and proudly representing the organization.
“Transformation is permanent change rather than temporary inspiration.” This is how Dr. Summer Knight begins this leadership driven discussion that focuses on the 3E’s of Leadership – to Encourage, Empower, and Embolden those around us and in our organizations. Leaders look for ways to facilitate and help people grow. By using the 3E’s, leaders leveraging peoples’ strengths and talents, and can help them identify and overcome their challenges so they may achieve their personal aspirations. This creates a ripple effect in people’s lives that affect those around them – their families, their social groups, and the organizations they work within.
How do you define GREAT? How about living life exceptionally because you are doing exactly what you love and what you were meant to do with your life. Because of this alignment, you are joyful, fulfilled, and living abundantly. In this discussion, Dr. Summer Knight talks of the 5 life equities that must be integrated:
- Spiritual
- Intellectual
- Psychological
- Financial
- Physical
…and how assessing and achieving excellence in these areas of your life on your terms is possible and necessary to living GREAT.
The Social Media revolution is fully engaged in the Health Care Industry! Are you?
This presentation discusses the rapid transformation of Health Care Social Media and the many platforms available to engage in today’s active conversation. We learn about the innovators and the dinosaurs in this engaging multi-media presentation.
In this presentation, we will “network” and share:
- Social media and its growth amongst four main fronts in health care
- Return on Investment – is there one? YES, there is!
- Foundational Platforms
- Pitfalls in Health Care with Social Media and real-life examples
- How to either get started, get clear, or re-energize your Social Media presence
Dr. Summer Knight, former Chief Medical Officer for the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration turned entrepreneurial businesswoman, engages in an entertaining and provocative discussion on how Social Media has revolutionized businesses and leaves participants with real steps to taking their Health Care Social Media plan to the next level in a highly cost-effective manner that gives excellent ROIs and brings about a “win-win-win” for all participants.
Dr. Knight enjoys using innovative tools such as Social Media to increase communication. Knowing the many marketplace regulations, Dr. Knight advises and encourages health care entities to embrace the pervasive Social Media tools – your workforce is already using them – to increase communication and spread the word about their organizations.
Interoperability has always been a discussion topic, though under different titles. The question consistently asked is: how do we coordinate services that are person-centric rather than agency-centric?
Using the momentum of Health Care Reform and its intense focus of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) in managing and supporting health care systems, interoperability may be closer than we think! Why is this? Because the very essence of ACO’s and their reimbursement – a major driver in organizational behavior – is that an organization is accountable for the care to be rendered to their patients. Thus, they are paid in part on outcomes.
Though the basic building blocks are health, in order for the “whole person, patient-centric” approach to be effective and to improve outcomes, organizations that are on the hook to perform will look to ensure their clientele is knowledgeable and receive other social services available to them that can also effectively improve their outcomes. This is because we all understand that even with optimal health care, if a patient cannot afford prescriptions, food, safe shelter, and other basic needs, their health cannot be optimized.
With HHS’ focus on technologies and new ways at looking at the business of health, there are many opportunities to re-introduce interoperability of systems within health and amongst differing service agencies. What can this lead to?
- Large systemic changes,
- Cost savings due to reduction of services,
- More efficient and focused use of available dollars and services,
- Presumptively better outcomes,
- Better job satisfaction for those overseeing agency programs
In this speech, Dr. Summer Knight, a former state- Medicaid Chief Medical Officer and health care executive, engages in a moving case-study depicting how a lack of interoperability adversely affected a now-young adult and what happened when agencies couldn’t communicate. We then discuss the pros and cons of interoperability followed by open discussion.
Health Care Reform has put the spotlight where it belongs – on people and an increased emphasis on care management of people in the home and community rather than monocular-focused on high-cost institutional medicine. As a country, we have recognized the value of the community in reducing overall health care costs including acute care costs. The Federal government is moving forward and aligning incentives with funding including new programs that incentivize community collaboration, patient-centric care management and transitions, and accountable care (ACO) environments.
This shift in funding and policy facilitates local growth of collaborative innovations requiring teamwork and supporting communities that can organize and work in an intra-operative model.
- How will these Acute Care Transitions and Care Management models lead communities – and particularly smaller and rural communities – to develop more comprehensive relationships?
- Can these relationships shift to locally grown ACO-based relationships?
- Will communities be able to develop interoperable systems where they address patient-centric needs rather than having the current complexity of patients going to silos for health, social services, and welfare to get their needs met?
Dr. Knight shares vignettes of real patients (names changed) to illustrate how these collaborations can improve the lives of citizens, improve system communication, and improve the overall satisfaction of all the people working in the continuum of care.
Related Topic: A Physician (or Cynic’s) Guide to Health Care Reform – What Does it Mean for You?
Because the overall cost of managing care in the home and the community is less expensive than in institutional settings and more individuals seek to receive care within their community, there has been a sharp turn of attention to the Long Term Care (LTC) markets and Home and Community markets. In these programs, budgets have rapidly increased while information and controls have lagged. The Economic Downturn and Health Care Reform have brought these issues to the foreground of discussion. How can we serve more people, keep them at a lower cost level of care, while maintain or cutting budgets?
This session delves into strategies states are using to mitigate the inherent risks of logistically dispersed home based programs, ensure beneficiaries receive care during the early transition from institution to community, improve the level of data from the field and provide these systems while co-opting the service providers as strong and cooperative stakeholder partners. In an effort to better manage these systems, states are turning their attention to innovative solutions.
Additional highlights include:
● Acute Care Transition – managing care intensively after discharge
● Mitigating the inherent risks of these logistically dispersed home based programs
● Leveraging technology to create an efficient process
● Improve the level of data from the field and accountability for service plans leading to payment only for care rendered and cessation of FAW
● How Social Media is being considered to leverage communication
Dr. Summer Knight, former Chief Medical Officer for the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration turned entrepreneurial businesswoman, engages in an entertaining and provocative discussion on how technology has helped three states and three Managed Care Organizations do just this in a highly cost-effective manner that gives excellent ROIs and brings about a “win-win-win” for all stakeholders involved.
Related Topic: Long-term Care Current Events, News and Updates
- KEY to the Health Care Crisis: Personal Responsibility and Wellness
- Health – It’s a Global Topic
- Can Gaming Change Behavior in Wellness and Health?
- Health Care Fraud and Abuse
- Medicaid
