HealthPro Opens 60+ Corporate Training Centers Bringing Popular Educational Topics to Healthcare Professionals Nationwide
Nationally recognized healthcare industry and managed care expert, speaker and author, Maria K Todd MHA PhD, VP of HealthPro Consulting, Inc., announces the opening of more than 60 corporate training centers across the nation. The rollout of these local centers is in response to more than 60,000 past seminar participants exit comments from 1993-2003 regarding the need for high-quality, affordable, local seminars on healthcare business management, managed care and HIPAA compliance and reimbursment topics. This new one-day seminar model moves the workshops out of hotels and into private corporate training centers enabled with T-1 Internet connections and PolyCom videoconferencing capabilities at each location.
Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) April 14, 2004 -- HealthPro Consulting, Inc., is proud
to announce the availability of more than 60 Corporate Training Centers in major
cities across the nation. Existing clients and healthcare providers of all types
and their staff will now be able to take advantage of high-quality local
seminars and educational workshops on a variety of health administrative, topics
such as managed care contracting and reimbursement, billing and coding, revenue
improvement, HIPAA compliance, collections and many other topics. In addition,
these Corporate Training Centers can be used to host corporate strategy
retreats, one-on-one executive coaching sessions and expert testimony and
depositions via videoconference.
No newcomer to the one-day seminar
model, Maria K Todd, MHA, PhD, Vice President of HealthPro Consulting, Inc.,
lectures frequently for various state and national trade associations,
universities, physician training, residency and fellowship programs and the US
Military. She has presented more than 2000 educational programs and lectures
since 1991 throughout the US and abroad. She spent an average of 270 days each
year presenting seminars in over 70 major and secondary markets between 1993 and
1999. Her experience as a nationally recognized speaker, author of several books
and consultant on managed care and related topics provided the insight for
HealthPro’s business model. Todd is the author of The Managed Care Contracting
Handbook, (1996, McGraw Hill and the HFMA, Chicago) IPA, PHO, MSO Development
Strategies, (1997, McGraw Hill and the HFMA, Chicago) and the Physician
Employment Contracting Handbook (1999, McGraw Hill and the MGMA, Chicago) and
contributes articles to various professinal journals and special publications of
the American Osteopathic Association. She also serves as an editorial resource
to the Managed Care Contracting and Reimbursement Advisor (Brownstone), as well
as local, regional, and national media. Todd regularly presents seminars and
workshops through national associations including the Healthcare Financial
Management Association (HFMA) on managed care contract analysis and negotiation
and is listed in several professional yearbooks, including Who’s Who in American
Women, Who’s Who in Medicine and Health, and Who’s Who in the World and is a
recipient of the HFMA 1999 Follmer Bronze Award.
“What I learned from
over 60,000 participants who have attended my programs is that they no longer
have the time or travel budgets to attend seminars out of town. Many expressed
desires for healthful snacks, lunch and parking to be included in the price of
admission,” says Todd. They also wanted to spend less time navigating huge
conference hotels to find their meeting rooms, since locals rarely sleep at the
seminar venue.“ This presented a multi-faceted problem since the better hotels
didn’t want to rent meeting space without sleeping rooms, and we refused to host
events (or spend the night) at the category of hotels that would.”
“Our
Corporate Training Centers enable us to bring high-quality educational programs
to their area at an affordable price point including lunch, parking, program
manual, and a CD filled with extra tools and templates to help participants
quickly implement what they learned in class. Training Centers are located in
upscale corporate environments as well as commercial centers including Atlanta’s
Buckhead Section, Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center and Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.
All Centers have corporate hotels either adjacent or within walking distance
offering preferred rates” says Todd.
Through its affiliation with HQ
Global Workplaces, each Training Center is equipped with state-of-the-art
Polycom videoconference equipment and T-1 Internet service. “I need Internet
access during a program when I want to share a research technique with my
audience. Few hotels could provide Internet access in their ballrooms or meeting
room, and hourly costs when available were prohibitive. Connections were
arranged exclusively through on-site A/V vendors, whose high contract rates were
then marked up by the hotels. All those costs were then included in the price of
admission” says Todd. “Now these mark-ups are eliminated and equipment
consistency is under control.” All of the Centers are ergonomically designed and
accessible to physically challenged participants.
Physicians, dentists
and other healthcare providers will begin to receive seminar and workshop
catalogs and brochures this summer and programs will begin in September 2004.
The entire program catalog and tour schedule is available on HealthPro’s website
at www.healthproconsulting.net
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Maria K.
Todd, MHA, PhD
HealthPro Consulting, Inc.
45 Main Street, Suite
309-133
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 800-209-7263
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