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Bloorview Kids Rehab Strategic Plan to 2017. Download PDF
Northern Health Strategic Plan. Download PDF
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton 5 year Strategic Plan. Download PDF
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton 5 year Strategic Plan Tracking Board. Download PDF
Group Health Seattle 2007 Annual Report. Download PDF
CIHI Health Indicators 2008. Download PDF
Joint Session. Longwoods Breakfast with the Chiefs and OHA Governance Conference. Alan Hudson presents his unvarnished version of healthcare governance. Register here for this September ’08 program at the Royal York in Toronto.
A business perspective: Aligning the Stars: Using Systems Thinking to (Re)Design Canadian Healthcare by Brian R. Golden and Roger L. Martin
Best read last week: A Visit Down Under: Our Journey to Improve Canada's Healthcare System by Murray Martin and Cliff Nordal
Worth Reading: Population Patterns of Chronic Health Conditions, Co-morbidity and Healthcare Use in Canada: Implications for Policy and Practice
Anne-Marie Broemeling, Diane E. Watson and Farrah Prebtani, on behalf of councillors on the Health Outcomes Steering Committee of the Health Council of Canada.
Top 10 longwoods.com read articles of the week starting June 1, 2008. Click here for the PDF.
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The HealthAchieve Awards include: Leading Best Practices (Sponsored by Accenture, Agfa Healthcare and Roche)| Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership (Sponsored by J&J Medical Systems)| Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education | All awards will be presented at HealthAchieve2008 held on November 3 to 5 in Toronto. Visit www.healthachieve.com.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Women are more than twice as likely as men to have a hip fracture - but men are more likely to die after such an injury. More at CIHI.
SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
Les femmes sont deux fois plus susceptibles que les hommes de se fracturer le hanche, mais les hommes risquent davantage de mourir des suites d'une telle blessure.
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Healthcare Quarterly
Creating Sustained Improvements in Patient Access and Flow: Experiences from Three Ontario Healthcare Institutions
Hugh MacLeod, Bob Bell, Ken Deane and Carolyn Baker
HealthcarePapers
Unsentimental Education: Learning from the Workers' Compensation Boards Experience
Steven Lewis, Amy Zierler, Kira Leeb
Nursing Leadership
Effective Collaboration: The Key to Better Healthcare
Kelly Merkeley Keith, Debbie Fraser Askin
Healthcare Policy
Why Examining the Desirability of Health Technology Matters
Pascale Lehoux
Electronic Healthcare
Toward a Model of Successful Electronic Health Record Adoption
Lynn M. Nagle and Peter Catford
World Health and Population
Reducing Childhood Diarrhea Morbidity: Does Behaviour Change Matter? A Case Study from Northern Ghana
Issaka Kanton Osumanu
Articles dealing with Women's Health in Developing Countries
Abstracts from the journal World Health and Population
To read these and other articles on Women's health in developing countries visit www.worldhealthandpopulation.com.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Toronto
Dr. Alan Hudson
Dr. Alan Hudson is Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times for the Health Results Team, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Topic: The Future of Healthcare Governance in Ontario
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP Canada, HPME - University of Toronto, Microsoft Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
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October 22, 2008 – Toronto
Matt Anderson
Matt Anderson is the CEO - Toronto Central LHIN
Topic: Exceptional Patient Centred Healthcare: integrated, collaborative, accessible and accountable. The case for technology.
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, Healthtech, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
Other confirmed Chiefs for 2008/2009 series of Breakfast with the Chiefs (dates TBD)
Dr. Vivek Goel, President and CEO of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion; Ida Goodreau, President and CEO for Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.
Leadership Challenges in Creating Safer Care - Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Dr. Ross Baker, Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), University of Toronto and editor of the Healthcare Quarterly on Patient Safety. This event supported by: 3M, Accenture, Healthtech, HP, Microsoft, Philips Medical Systems, TELUS
The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts. If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.
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June 12, 2008: Toronto, ON. 2nd Annual Patient Safety & Quality Academic Day: Advancing an Academic Approach to Patient Safety and Quality Improvement for Clinicians. The program will describe and identify enablers and challenges to developing a patient safety culture in hospitals; outline difficulties in implementation of patient safety and quality improvement projects; identify methods and opportunities to incorporate patient safety and quality activities into academic career development. For details click here.
June 17, 2008: Toronto, ON. Eating the Elephant: A Workshop for Ontario Hospitals Preparing to Meet the Provincial Reporting Requirements for CLI, VAP & SSI. The workshop objectives include: to prepare to meet the conditions of provincial reporting requirements related to the Safer Healthcare Now! Interventions; to integrate the clinical content of the interventions with established quality improvement methods; to share experiences among Ontario clinical teams working on the same interventions. For details, Download PDF or contact Tanya Flanagan.
June 22 – 24, 2008: Toronto, ON. Knowledge and Inspiration, Les connaissances et l’inspiration 2008. Join Ontario’s Community Care Access Centres and their Health Partners for an inspiring conference featuring Deepak Chopra, Roméo Dallaire, Shirley Douglas and thought-provoking speakers: exhibits & demonstrations by innovative providers and much more! Details: http://www.oaccac.on.ca
August 25-29, 2008: Vancouver, BC. 26th International System Safety Conference. The ISSC 2008 conference will provide evidence-informed, practical knowledge about how best to integrate new knowledge and practical applications of recent thinking about methods to achieve enhanced safety. The conference features opinion leaders from the fields of high reliability, resilience engineering and human factors including Richard Cook, a physician, educator, and researcher at the University of Chicago. The conference usually draws people from risk critical industries, such as aviation, the petro-chemical and nuclear power industries, and the military; and has increasingly been introducing themes of specific interest to health care. For details click here.
September 17-18, 2008: Toronto, ON. Sterilization Forum Presented jointly by CSA and Accreditation Canada, this two-day forum will provide healthcare decision makers, administrators and their reprocessing staff with the knowledge, tools and operational recommendations to help meet accreditation standards for sterile processing departments within their facilities. The Sterilization Forum will explore key themes by highlighting issues, best practices and lessons learned. For more information click here.
Friday, October 17, 2008: Toronto, ON - 8th Annual Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit (KLARU) Conference “Connecting Research and Clinical Care: Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Settings”. Attendees will be updated on recent advances of safety improvements as well as practical applications for long-term care providers to take back to their organizations to implement best practices. For more information, click here.
February 19-22, 2009: Victoria, BC. Revolutionizing Healthcare with Informatics: From Research to Practice. Information technology affects nearly every aspect of healthcare today. Health information systems are seen by many as the critical element in improving and modernizing healthcare in Canada and internationally. In order to achieve this potential there will need to be a stronger bridge between research and practice in order to solve complex healthcare problems using technology and to develop best practices based on proven results. Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 30, 2008. For details click here.
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