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The Summer Webinars are Underway!

New webinars open for registration.

Click here for more information and to register.

You won't want to miss these upcoming webinars.

> Jerry Ippolito, MBA, MHSA, is giving a series of four webinars on Surgical Services Business Development: A Proactive Approach.

> Connie Curran, RN, EdD, FAAN, will present two webinars on Developing the Balanced Scorecard and Implementing the Balanced Scorecard.

> Christie Dempsey, RN, MBA, CNOR, will talk about Assessing and Developing a Patient Flow Project and Implementing a Successful Patient Flow Project.

> Jo Manion, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FAAN, will offer advice on the Engaged Workforce: Keeping Morale High During Tough Times, based on her newly published book.

> Keith Sidell, MBA, will present two popular programs from the OR Business Management Conference, Improving the OR Revenue Cycle and Taming the Charge Descriptor Master.

Scheduled Times

Unless otherwise noted, all webinars are on Thursdays at 2:00 pm eastern time (1:00 pm central, 12 noon mountain, and 11:00 am Pacific).

Dial in Toll-Free

You can call in toll-free to our webinars. You will receive details on joining the webinar and how to call in via email before the scheduled
webinar.

Colleagues Can Participate

Participation in a webinar is $149 per site with access to one phone line, but an unlimited number of people can participate in the webinar.

Continuing Education Unit

Registered participants will receive 1 CEU for each webinar. To receive continuing education credit, you must be a registered participant.

Click here to register

22nd annual managing today's or suite conference

Oct 7 to 9, 2009
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas

Managing Today’s OR Suite focuses on practical topics related to management of surgical services such as efficiency, IT, staff retention, and cost management.

Download a regular PDF version.

> Register on-line

Hotel Reservations:
> Special Early Bird rate
> Regular conference rate

The OR benchmarks
collaborative

A partnership of OR Manager, Inc, and McKesson Corporation, the OR Benchmarks Collaborative is a new benchmarking service that provides you with an opportunity to measure and compare your key performance indicators with health care facilities nationwide. Participate in a 60-minute interactive demonstration web seminar.

special offers

Surgeon Satisfaction Survey
> Special discounts available!

For Foreign Subscribers
Get the electronic version (PDF) on the monthly publication, OR Manager, for $149 per year.

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New Subscribers Save 25%

Subscribe now and receive a free copy of Patient Safety in the OR, Second Edition, a compilation of articles from OR Manager. > Click here

Speaker proposals invited for 2010 conferences

Share your successes at the 2010 Managing Today’s OR Suite conference, Sept 29 to Oct 1, Orlando, or at the OR Business Management Conference, May 12 to 14, San Francisco.

Submit your proposal for a 75-minute breakout or a full-day preconference seminar with this form.

The deadline is Nov 1. If you have questions, email Judy Dahle, RN, MS, education coordinator, at jdahle@ormanager.com or call her at 1/877/877-4031

Call for abstracts for poster displays

Showcase your research, quality improvement projects, and clinical innovations in the poster display at the Managing Today’s OR Suite conference, Oct 7-9, at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Please submit poster abstracts to OR Manager, Inc, by August 12, 2009.

For more information and forms to submit for your poster:

> Call for abstracts
> Format for abstracts
> Poster information

Introducing the new, enhanced electronic OR Manager.

The new, enhanced electronic version of OR Manager is now available to Super Subscribers. Starting with the January issue, Super Subscribers will have access to the electronic issue each month on the OR Manager website. Click here to see a demonstration of the new electronic version.

You can share this issue with a friend; look for the icon on the tool bar. For help, click here.

If you are a print only subscriber, you can upgrade to a Super Subscriber subscription by calling 800-442-9918.

Summaries of ECRI Institute Technology Assessment Reports

OR leaders are striving to make evidence-based decisions about new technology. OR Manager, Inc, and ECRI Institute have joined in a collaboration to bring quarterly supplements with summaries of the Institute’s technology assessment reports to OR Manager readers. The complete reports can be purchased from ECRI Institute’s Health Technology Assessment Information Service at htais@ECRI.org.

Future conference dates

2010
Managing Today’s OR Suite
Sept 29-Oct 1
Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin
Orlando

OR Business Management Conference
May 12-14
Hyatt Regency San Francisco

We provide timely information for directors and managers of surgical suites in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers through the monthly OR Manager publication, the Managing Today's OR Suite and OR Business Management conferences, and other publications.