In Kickstart Your International Patient Department, veteran medical tourism expert, Maria Todd, shares more than 3 decades of practical experience from projects in the USA and abroad. She brings her experience from working as a hospital administrator and ambulatory surgery center CEO, and work as a medical tourism facilitator, surgical nurse and insurance provider contracting manager to teach workshop participants about what's involved in planning and launching an international patient services department at a hospital or ambulatory surgery center.Whether you are planning to integrated existing assets or those that must be developed into a campus setting similar to the model at the Cleveland Clinic at its headquarters in Ohio, or you have a smaller scale operation in mind stitched together from local value chain suppliers, Maria can explain what's involved and how to prepare.  She provides sample template workflows, checklists, job descriptions and skills requirements, quality documentation templates, and sample forms, policies and procedures developed over 3 decades of work in the industry. There's no other place you can take this course except from Maria Todd, because it is not offered at international conferences and congresses where speakers are only permitted 10 minute panel presentations and 60-90 minute breakout sessions.  No other expert has the combination of healthcare administration, medical tourism business development, surgical nursing and healthcare provider contracting across a 30+ year career. Maria will share lessons learned and practical tools, tips, and techniques to shorten your learning curve, accelerate your go to market timeline, and avoid costly oversights and mistakes.CEU Credits: 7 hours