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Follow on Google News | HBI Announces New Lease for Healthcare Business Institute NGO HeadquartersColorado not-for-profit educational and professional development NGO, The Healthcare Business Institute has leased space at the new Posner Center for International Development.
In 2011, iDE founded a consortium of international development organizations, including Engineers Without Borders-USA, and partnered with community leader Denver Urban Gardens and building-owner The Denver Housing Authority to transform the site into a new home for international and community development. The building houses 30+ organizations, 120 employees, hundreds of interns and volunteers, a farmers’ Colorado is home to more than 200 organizations and social ventures focusing on international development. Their work encompasses agriculture, community development, education, energy, health, tourism, infrastructure, and microfinance, among other fields. They share similar goals, such as designing or distributing products or services that improve the quality of life for the poorest people on the planet; They serve similar populations, targeting their operations not only at the same continents — within North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America — but in some cases even at the same countries; And they confront similar administrative burdens and financial challenges. Yet most of these organizations operate in isolation from one another. The Posner Center brings together these development- Todd first learned of the project to convert the horse barn into this international development organization collaborative as a Board Member of Global Health Connections (GHC), a 501C3 associated with the Health Administration Student Organization at the University of Colorado. She set her sights on leasing space and supporting this effort from the first moment she heard about it. No other such international development collaboration center exists in the area. GHC is also a new tenant there. Todd has worked in international development for decades as a consultant to governments and healthcare organizations in the USA and abroad. She is the author of 12 peer-reviewed professional reference books, including the Handbook of Medical Tourism Program Development, and the Medical Tourism Facilitator’s Handbook, two of the best-selling trade reference books in the industry. She holds advanced degrees in health administration, with professional work experience as a former surgical nurse, firefighter/ The Healthcare Business Institute provides training and skills development through healthcare institutions, universities and trade schools, and workshops sponsored by government authorities. It presently includes a Medical Practice Management Institute, a Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Managed Care Institute, and a Health Travel and Medical Tourism Training Institute. Additional training institutes are planned for the near future. It fills the gaps in critical healthcare business education and skills training that are underserved by university, vocational, and trade association training programs throughout the world. The HBI collaborates with other NGO and professional development organizations including: The Black Sea Institute for Health Tourism Development (CIS and Europe), Global Healthcare Travel Council (Turkey), Global Health Connections (USA), and Global Unification International (Australia). Todd also serves as a board member on three of these organizations and several others. Todd creates awareness about the HBI by writing journal articles and speaking at international events and conferences. She has lectured at universities and healthcare industry conferences in more than 90 countries since 1983. She is an outspoken advocate of patient safety, equitable healthcare provider reimbursement, sustainable business development, accreditation, high-quality global health delivery, and coordinated care continuity. She always finds time to discuss new ideas and international development projects that improve business process and help organizations to achieve operational excellence in healthcare delivery. Together with more than 80 other experts on five continents, they are available for keynote and panel presentations and hands on-skills building workshops at the Horse Barn, and at industry events. Margins from HBI training course fees and consulting projects will be used to raise funds for an international health industry training center and Memorial Library in Denver, Colorado. End
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