Longwoods eLetter July 29, 2008

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“Consider the emerging evidence that institution-level death rates can motivate improvement and can be changed. Track Deaths.” Jennifer Zelmer, then Vice President of CIHI. Now CEO, The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation.

ESSAY
Do Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios Measure Patient Safety? HSMRs in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Robert B. Penfold, Stafford Dean, Ward Flemons and Michael Moffatt

OFF THE CUFF

Just released. A complete issue of Healthcare Papers including seven expert opinions responding to this essay. See complete table of contents below. Pro bono ad hoc.

Here is some additional reading:

Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR): Longwoods Online ...

Getting Started Resources Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) (PDF)

Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR). What do you have to ...

Technical Notes Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) (PDF)

Hospital Mortality Trends in Canada | November 2007: Longwoods ...

CIHI: What’s New, What’s Coming (PDF)

FROM HEALTHACHIEVE ‘07
Leading Practices Poster for Health Achieve ‘07 now online. Have you been selected to display your leading practices this November ‘08? Look at last year’s submissions and winning entries. Remember, the judges always look for outcomes. Click here.

For Healthcare companies and recruiters: This year HealthAchieve provides all +8500 attendees the HealthAchieve2008 Pocket Notebook. Will include new, unpublished insights from Canada’s top minds + information critical to every healthcare organization in Canada. As only our editors can edit. + Career opportunities from coast to coast. Recruiters can participate and reach all the attendees plus the 250,000 online visitors. For more information click here (PDF) or contact Susan Hale.

RIM is hiring a Marketing Programs Manager. Interested? Click here.

ANNOUNCED
Accreditation Canada International has been commissioned to develop the national accreditation program for the Kuwait Ministry of Health. The Ministry intends to implement an accreditation program for healthcare quality and to ensure national standards developed specifically for Kuwait are followed.

The Xpert Generation: The new definition of “retired” continues to evolve. Think “cadre”: a small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose. Robert Lester, clinician, researcher, teacher and administrator is now on the list. Retired from Sunnybrook. Important contributor to Canada’s excellence in care. A pioneer in telehealth together with his colleague Dr. Robert Filler as they enabled the inspired Dr. Ed Brown. Retired? Sort of. Is this the definition of the “new” retired already established by Tony Dagnone, Dr. Alan Hudson, Peter Glynn, Duncan Sinclair, Tom Closson, Bob Smith and others? Will Jack Davis join them? What will Dr. Lester do next? You can ask him here.

THE NEWS
Compiled by Health Edition.

1. April 1, 2009 it is expected to be the date that “any worker certified for an occupation by a regulatory authority of one province or territory shall be recognized as qualified to practice that occupation by all other provinces and territories.” From the Accord reached by Council of the Federation meeting in Quebec City last Friday,
2. Canada is sixth best among leading nations in preventable deaths – a key measure of a quality health system, and one of the indicators used by the Commonwealth Fund in a report last week rating U.S. health care.
3. Ontario will be spending $741 million over the next four years to prevent, manage and treat diabetes. Diabetes and its complications represent a $5 billion cost to the provincial health system.
4. Alberta Health and Wellness has hired international management consultants from McKinsey to conduct a review of the province’s health system to be completed in September. The purpose of the review is to look at options for service delivery improvements.
5. British Columbia now has 100 nurse practitioners working in the province with the capacity, as of September 2007, to graduate up to 45 more each year.
6. Physicians in B.C. can get funding and implementation support for Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems from the Physician Information Technology Office (PITO) which was created as part of their 2006 contract agreement with the government.
7. Wait times for MRIs in Halifax has more than doubled even though the number of MRI machines in Nova Scotia has also doubled.
8. Sign of the Times? More than 1,000 people made their way to the Kenora (Ontario) Recreation Centre Wednesday for a free Trooper show presented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees. . . . to stand up against the health minister and the Local Health Integration Network, who is trying to “bully our hospital into making health care cuts with their restructuring and under funding of hospitals.”

Who’s Who at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Dr. Brian Postl, President & Chief Executive Officer | Mr. Milton Sussman, Chief Operating Officer, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Community Health Services | Dr. Brock Wright, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer & COO Health Sciences Centre | Ms. Jan Currie, Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer | Mr. Réal Cloutier, Vice President Long Term Care & COO Deer Lodge Centre | Mr. Paul Kochan, Vice President & Chief Finance Officer | Ms. Gloria O'Rourke, Vice President & Chief Human Resource Officer. (You can reach them use their first initial and last name @ wrha.mb.ca)

The London Health Sciences Centre Annual Report 2008 – for online reading. (Almost perfectly designed . . . if only the table of contents didn’t disappear as you surf.)

SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE?
En 2005-2006, les personnes âgées de plus de 65 ans se sont le plus souvent rendues aux services d'urgence de l’Ontario les jours de semaine, entre 8 h et midi, et surtout le lundi.

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Healthcare Quarterly
Collaborating to Innovate and Improve Patient-Centred Care at Hamilton Health Sciences
Ann Russell, Heather Campbell, Marlene Scardamalia, Mary Lamon, Blake Melnick, Jennifer Henderson, Chuck Cunningham and Anne Matheson

HealthcarePapers
Quality, Value, Accountability and Information as Transforming Strategies for Patient-Centred Care: A Commentary from an International Perspective
Bernardo Ramirez and Mihran Nazaretian

Nursing Leadership
Interprofessional Education for Collaborative, Patient-Centred Practice
John H.V. Gilbert

Healthcare Policy
The Blind Men, the Elephant and the CT Scanner
Robert G. Evans

Electronic Healthcare
Moving toward a Single Comprehensive Electronic Health Record for Every Citizen in Adalucia, Spain
Denis Protti

World Health and Population
Strengthening Health Development at the Community Level in Thailand: What Events Should Be Managed?
Vasuton Tanvatanakul, Corália Vicente, João Amado and Sastri Saowakontha

CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Myths, "Zombies" and "Damned Lies" Plague Canadian Healthcare Systems: What's a Researcher to Do? by Jennifer Thornhill, Dave Clements and Jasmine Neeson

Using research to inform management and policy is already difficult notwithstanding when popular culture supports measures that are counterintuitive to the best research.

Read it here.

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Organizations interested in contributing to Longwoods Radio read this . . .
This is great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using storytelling, compelling lectures or gripping interviews – using simple digital recordings that we distribute on the web. Formatted for iPod listeners too. For criteria and specifications please contact Lina Lopez at LLopez@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance of course.

2008/2009 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Toronto - Limited Seating
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, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
Register here

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, McKesson Canada, 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 or Matthew Hart 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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With its theme, Inspiring Ideas and Innovation, HealthAchieve2008 is Canada’s largest health care show, attracting thousands of hospital leaders and health care professionals from across the country. This year, HealthAchieve will be held November 3, 4 & 5 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Featuring keynote addresses from the Rt. Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Uwe Reinhardt and Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthAchieve2008 promises to be a truly inspiring event! For further information, visit www.healthachieve.com.

August 2-8, 2008: Venice Italy. 2008 Summer School of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. The Summer School will focus on hospital reengineering, looking at how hospitals interact with the rest of the health and care systems and with the communities around them, dealing with the relationships of hospitals with other actors. For details click here.

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 10-12, 2008: Montebello, QC. 1st Annual Canadian Health Leadership Network Symposium. Join Lord Nigel Crisp in a discussion on what works and what doesn't vis-à-vis leadership styles and behaviours. Engage in dialogue with leaders from Canada's academic, community, long-term and continuing care health sectors, senior government officials, national health organizations, as well as the next generation of health system leaders in Canada! CHLNet values leadership development throughout the lifecycle of leadership. Senior health systems leaders who attend are encouraged to sponsor an emerging leader from their organization to attend this very unique and intimate leadership development event. For details download PDF. For registration form download PDF.

September 17-20: Toronto, ON. 5th International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network Conference Leadership in Advanced Nursing Practice: Maximizing Health, Celebrating Collaboration and Promoting Innovation. Presented jointly by the Canadian Association of Advanced Practice Nurses (CAAPN) and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). This conference will inspire advanced practice nurses around the globe to learn new ways to handle challenges, and will provide an exciting opportunity to network with clinicians, administrators, policy-makers, educators, researchers, students, and interdisciplinary colleagues. Topics include Nurse Practitioner Roles in Anesthesiology and Models of APN role evaluation. International Speakers include Ann Hamric, Dorothy Brooten and Stephen Lewis. For details click here.

September 26 & 27th, 2008; Toronto, Ontario. Health Human Resources Migration International Policy Symposium. Co-sponsored by the University of Toronto, The Connaught Committee and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Demetrios Papademetriou, President, The Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC. For further details and registration information click here.

October 14- 18, 2008: Toronto, Ontario - Dorothy Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute. The 15th offering of the award winning residential Nursing Leadership Development Program at the Institute for Learning with Keynote Barry Posner of The Leadership Challenge, Rick Lash of the HayGroup. Limited Registration. Details, Brochure and Registration www.dwnli.ca or Contact Katrin Wade (416) 426-7229.

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.

November 10-14, 2008: Toronto, Ontario - Health Leaders Institute. The 4th annual offering of this inter-professional residential leadership development program with keynote by Dr Barry Posner of The Leadership Challenge, Rick Lash of the HayGroup. Limited Registration. Details, Brochure and Registration www.healthleaders.ca. or Contact Katrin Wade (416) 426-7229.

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.

For our complete list of conferences and events go here.

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Emerging Leader Forum (ELF) Planning Committee Recruitment – ELF is growing and needs more helping hands – four new positions are available. If you’re interested in joining the planning committee go to the ELF website www.emergingleaderforum.com for more information and submit an application form to ELF@courtyard-group.com by August 8th 2008.

Director of Nursing - The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON
Executive Director, Acute Programs - Burnaby Hospital, Burnaby, BC
Manager, Health Services, Neonatal IC & Pediatrics - Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, BC
Managers, Client Services (Hospitals) - Toronto Central CCAC
Executive Services Director - South West LHIN, London, ON
Director, Community Engagement and Communications - Toronto Central LHIN
Director, Program Development - Toronto Central LHIN
Financial Analyst - Toronto Central LHIN
Director, Professional Practice – Health Disciplines - Bridgepoint Hospital, Toronto, ON
Manager, Research Operations - Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) Ottawa, ON
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