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Longwoods eLetter April 04, 2006

In a clean accountability process, if the CEO fails, the Board is accountable; if the CEO fails because of a Board failure, the Board is accountable. In either case, the appropriate Ministry remedy is against the Board, not the CEO Simon Chester, Maureen Quigley, Graham Scott


Dr. Arthur Slutsky has accepted Dr. Peggy Leatt's invitation to serve as medical advisor to Longwoods Publishing and specifically the peer reviewed journal Longwoods Review. Dr. Slutsky is Vice President of Research at St. Michael's hospital in Toronto. He is also Director of the Division of Critical Care in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine.


OFF THE CUFF #4
Adult and child cancer survivors can apply to stay at a donated cottage to spend time with family after treatment.  Opportunities to recover, rebuild, reconnect, celebrate, and look to the future together. Providers of care who touch families dealing with cancer should visit this presentation: Cottage Dreams ... An Introduction Download PDF

 

The (Bill) Gates family owns CN stock worth about $1.87-billion, making him the largest single share holder. A vote of confidence, I suppose, in Canadian management. So don’t be shy to consider their foundation as a source of support for any global health initiatives you are working on.

 

The Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO) has released a report entitled “Wait” Watchers II: Measuring Progress on Wait Time Strategies Across ACAHO Members. Go to: Final Report.

 

15 years of policies from the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions. Here’s another one: “CFNU believes that people unable to obtain adequate shelter tend to be of poorer health and attain a lower level of education than people who have access to suitable housing. The negative impact of inadequate housing has a real cost in terms of increased health, justice and income support costs in addition to lost job creation opportunities.”

 

After an eight-year merger with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Women's College Hospital has been transformed to a centre of ambulatory care as well as a centre for research into women's health.


Ask an Expert in healthcare law & governance.

What's keeping you up at night? Send us your most pressing personal and professional question and challenge, and the Longwoods team -- with the help of contributors to this new resource center -- will hunt down the answers and possible solutions. We won't be able to answer or address all of your questions, but we will try to respond to as many as possible, posting the Q&A's on our website. Our resident law and governance experts are Graham Scott Q.C. and Maureen Quigley. Our experts will not identify you in our publications or the web site but may correspond with you directly. Send your questions directly to experts@longwoods.com


From Healthcare Policy
Peer Review in a Small Pond ::

Reinventing Veterans Health Administration: Focus on Primary Care ::
Opinion: Helping Canadians Understand the Opportunities for Health Research ::

Quality Councils as Health System Performance and Accountability Mechanisms: The Cancer Quality Council of Ontario Experience ::

Viewpoint: Health Visitors and Public Health and Security ::

Using vitamin D to prevent falls in an elderly residential care population

 

From Nursing Leadership
A Dialogue on Quality and Patient Safety with Maureen Bisognano
A Focus on Nursing Human Resources ::

PATIENT SAFETY PAPERS – A SPECIAL ISSUE
The Human Factor: Unexpected Benefits of a CPOE and Electronic Medication Management Implementation at the University Health Network ::


BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS – now available online | enabled by TELUS
1.  Dr. Michael Guerriere
: Annual Review of IM/IT in Healthcare. The Unvarnished Version PDF | Click to Watch Video Presentation
2.  Dr. Arthur Porter: Building a world-class health institution | Click to Watch Video Presentation
3. 
Dr. Penny Ballem: :Advancing Health Care in B.C. PDF | Click To Watch Video Presentation.

Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Lanier Healthcare, Microsoft Canada, Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), Compass Group Canada, Ray & Berndtson, Cerner, Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) and TELUS.


BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS: scheduled for: April 11 and 20

TORONTO. Barry Monaghan, CEO, Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network. LHINs Where are we, where are we going and how are we going to get there? . . . a CEO's perspective. Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Cerner, Compass Group, Healthtech, Lanier Healthcare, Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), Philips Medical Systems, Roche, and TELUS. Tuesday, April 11, 2006. Time: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. (join us for breakfast at 7:30 a.m.) | Health Sciences Building , University of Toronto , 155 College Street , Toronto , ON M5T 3M6 , Room 106 (ground floor).  MapRegister with Lina Lopez at llopez@longwoods.com


VANCOUVER. Richard Alvarez, CEO, Canada Health Infoway. Annual Report: This presentation always fills the room to capacity. Book now! Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), Cerner, Microsoft Canada, Compass Group and TELUS. Thursday, April 20, 2006. Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (join us at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast) | Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI), at the Children's & Women's Hospital, Chan Auditorium, 950 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver (ground floor). Register with Rebecca Hart at rhart@longwoods.com


MORE CONFERENCES & EVENTS

May, 2006: Emerging Leader Forum from Courtyard (Think ELF) New minds. New ideas. From Courtyard Group. Four times a year. Must have <5 years of eHealth experience. Contact: elf@courtyard-group.com for more information. . . .a Longwoods knowledge partner


The Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) invites submissions for its annual conference, September 17-19, 2006, in Vancouver. All about Sustaining Primary Healthcare. Details and the online submission form here: http://www.cahspr.ca/conference06/abstract_en.html. . . . . a Longwoods knowledge partner


May 26 – 27, 2006, Fairmont Château Laurier, Ottawa Enhancing your leadership capacity. Canadian Society of Physician Executives’ 8th Annual Conference. Details at www.cspexecs.com

 

For our complete list of conferences and events go here

Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences  | Registered Nurses Association of Ontario conferences click here.

 

[We don’t go looking for these conferences. Please send details to eletter@longwoods.com ]


MEET THE NEW NURSE GRADUATES
Many requests have come in for this program: a full response will be sent by email on February 07. Longwoods, in collaboration with the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses and the Canadian Nursing Students' Association, is working on a nursing students’ leadership program. If you are interested in hearing about it write nursingstudents@longwoods.com.


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LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS
Nancy Malcolm to Chief Executive Officer, The New Women's College Hospital, Toronto

Dr. James Ruderman to Chief of Medical Staff, The New Women's College Hospital, Toronto
Dr. Gillian Hawker to Chief of Medicine, The New Women's College Hospital, Toronto

Dr. John Semple to Chief of Surgery, The New Women's College Hospital, Toronto

Dr. Jennifer Blake to Chief of Gynaecology, The New Women's College Hospital, Toronto

Dr. Ben Chan to Distinguished Alumni Award Winner, Victoria College, University of Toronto

 

More transitions at The New Women's College Hospital here.


Review all recently reported Transitions here.

[Send you leadership transitions to eletter@longwoods.com]


CAREERS: sent to +20,000 people including Canada’s student nurses.

Fourteen Executive Directors - Ontario CCACs
VP, Patient Services & Chief Nursing Officer Services - St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (STEGH)
Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist - Northern Alberta Neonatal Intensive Care Program
VP, Finance and Knowledge Transfer/CFO - St. Peter's Health System
Vice President, Patient Service - Humber River Regional Hospital
Nursing Consultant - Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ontario
Challenging Opportunities - Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Executive Director - Grandview Children's Centre
Chief Of The Department Of Psychiatry And Addiction Services - Niagara Health System (PDF)
Vancouver Coastal Health - Various Positions
Northern Health Authority - Various Positions
Senior Analysts/Analysts - University Health Network, Toronto
Managers - Burntwood Regional Health Authority
Manager, Fund Development (6 positions) Red Cross
Program Representative, Safety Services  Red Cross
Manager, Disaster Management (3 positions)  Red Cross
Manager, Home Support  Red Cross
Manager, RespectED  Red Cross
Specialist, Corporate First Aid  Red Cross
Nursing Student and New Grad Program - Vancouver Coastal Health
Perioperative Nursing at Royal Columbian Hospital
New BC Graduate Nurse (RN/RPN) Program - Deadline to Apply is April 30th, 2006
Specialty Nursing Education and Career Information
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
Career Opportunities at Capital Health Edmonton
Career Opportunities at Fraser Health
Career Opportunities at Hamilton Health Sciences
Healthcare Quarterly Careers - NEW - (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers - NEW- (PDF)

Live and Work in Canada

Visit our portal of 78 participating recruitment centres


[Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com]


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Longwoods Publishing

Longwoods publishes academic, professional & management journals for healthcare. Its journals, educational programs and websites together offer a knowledge centre of and for the academic and professional healthcare community; a place where the power of imagination and communication is lived and celebrated, a place where ideas are born, debated, translated, and widely distributed for the benefit of good care — anywhere.

Longwoods collaborates with universities around the world; they are an important source of editorial excellence and oversight. Editorial policy is directed by Dr. Peggy Leatt, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Administration; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs School of Public Health; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the United States. Editors in Chief include Dr. Leatt as well as Dr. Dorothy Pringle (University of Toronto); Dr. Michael Guerriere (University of Toronto and Ryerson University); Dr. John Paul (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Professor Denis Protti (University of Victoria); Dr. Graham Lowe (University of Calgary); Dr. Ross Baker (University of Toronto) and Dr. Brian Hutchison (McMaster University). The publisher, Anton Hart, is a citizen of Nederland and Canada — educated there and in the United States. His special interest is knowledge transfer and translation.

The editors provide intelligence, explore new ideas and policies, and share best practices all designed to help enable excellence. The readers are providers of healthcare and healthcare policies, services and products and are generally leaders in management, practice, education, research and product innovation. These same readers provide editorial content and use Longwoods as a resource — a true knowledge exchange. Oversight is provided by editorial boards made up of individuals with similar credentials. Members come from Europe, Africa, India, Australia, and the Americas. These boards advise the editors and enable the peer review process by leading a network of experts.

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Healthcare Quarterly,

Healthcare Papers,

Electronic Healthcare,

The Journal of World Health & Population,

Journal of Nursing Leadership,

Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé,

Healthcare Law and Governance,

HR Resources,

Plans, Policies & Programs, and

Patient Safety Papers.

Along side its publishing initiatives Longwoods offers: (1) Educational programs undertaken in collaboration with academic health sciences organizations, universities, corporations and associations; (2) awards to recognize achievements in education, best practices and leadership; and (3) recruiting services focused on leadership across the healthcare spectrum.

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