Richard Buck, MD, MPH SSM Health Care St. Louis, Missouri

      This presentation will discuss the mission, culture, and leadership of healthcare organizations. Learners will hear the reasons for developing leaders at all levels of the organization, the importance of developing leaders who share a commitment to core values and to excellence in order to push the organization up to another level, and how to become an organization that is able to build and sustain a world class level of performance. After the presentation, the participant will be able to:

• List two reasons that an organization might want to develop leaders at all levels of the organization
• Discuss the advantages and challenges of a blended learning format
• Describe the foundation of SSM University’s leaders-developing-leaders approach