"PARTNERING FOR SAFETY AND QUALITY"

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

2-4 p.m. Eastern

1-3 p.m. Central

Noon-2 p.m. Mountain

11 a.m.-1 p.m. Pacific

6-8 GMT

(All Daylight Savings Time)

 

ASHRM and the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) collaborate to present an expanded Webcast/audioconference for Healthcare Risk Management Week.

 

This program will explore how Risk Management and Quality can work together to improve patient safety.

 

Faculty from the AHA Quality Center will highlight quality and performance improvement efforts in hospitals and share practical tools for meeting organizational goals. Leaders from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison will describe collaborations between Risk Management and Quality in their organizations, working with unique organizational structures and jurisdictions. Lastly, a team from the Cleveland Clinic will tell how they are implementing a major culture change by restructuring Risk Management and Quality into the Quality and Patient Safety Institute. A case study will be presented, along with practical tips for smaller facilities facing similar challenges.

 

Objectives | Faculty | Cost | Format | Credits | NOW OPEN: Registration

 

 

OBJECTIVES

 

Participants who complete this program will be able to:

* Bring risk management and quality professionals together around common initiatives to improve safety, quality and processes in healthcare

* Articulate current and future quality initiatives

* Define the contribution each profession is making to improve safety and quality in healthcare

* Describe industry examples on performance level improvement and systems thinking and state case examples of collaborative efforts around safety and quality

* Describe technical skills and identify opportunities for professional growth through advanced training and education.

 

FACULTY

 

Stephen R. Mayfield, BS, MBA, MBB

Senior Vice President for Quality and Performance Improvement, American Hospital Association, and Director, AHA Quality Center, Chicago

* Communicates the AHA Quality Center’s “Eight Dimensions of Quality,” including improvement strategies and methodologies for healthcare leaders

* Contributing editor to the Industrial Engineering Terminology ANSI Standards for Health Systems; serves on the IIE Certification Board for Lean Practitioners

 

Jacqueline Mathews, BSN, MSN

Director of Quality, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland

* Implementing a departmental restructuring that includes integrating Quality into 10 medical divisions and developing a new paradigm for delivering Quality services in a large urban hospital

 

Vicki Bokar, RN, CPHRM

Director of Clinical Risk Management, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland

* 18 years in claims administration

* Supporting the integration of Cleveland Clinic’s Risk Management initiatives with Quality

 

Marcia Hargreaves, MS

Assistant Vice President of Quality Improvement and Assistant Professor, Department of Health Systems Management, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

* Responsible for the oversight of all regulatory and accreditation activities, the quality improvement program and patient safety

 

Deb Ankowicz, RN, BSN, CPHQ, CPHRM

Director of Risk Management, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI

* Background in high-risk clinical areas as well as in utilization review, quality assurance, performance improvement and Joint Commission survey preparation

 

FEE INFORMATION

(for callers from the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii)

 

The site registration fee makes this a great investment for your organization. Pay just one fee and ask as many people to listen in on your one connection, via speakerphone, as you wish. All registrations/orders must be prepaid in U.S. dollars. The tuition fee includes:

* One set of handouts (you may make copies for all of the persons you invite to listen to the program)

* One Internet/phone connection.

 

ASHRM/NAHQ members           $225 per site

Nonmembers                               $275 per site

 

FORMAT

 

This Webcast/audioconference will use both an Internet line and a phone line. Any number of participants can listen by speakerphone, view slides on a computer and join the discussion via phone or e-mail. (Copies of presentation slides will be provided if an Internet connection is unavailable.)

 

Convenient new service: A complete on-demand multimedia recording of this two-hour program, which can be pre-ordered, will be available online within two days of the broadcast. The original on-demand purchaser will have unlimited viewing/access for 30 days following the purchase (or the date of program, if later). See registration form to order.

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

 

* This program is approved for a total of 2.0 (two) contact hours of continuing education credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow), and toward CPHRM renewal. 

*  The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management is authorized to award 2.0 (two) hours of pre-approved Category II (non-ACHE) continuing education credit for this program toward advancement, or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives.  Participants in this program wishing to have the continuing education hours applied toward Category II credit should indicate their attendance when submitting application to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification.

* The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

 

This CNE activity is being offered for 2.0 contact hours.