Longwoods eLetter December 06, 2005
Rapid improvement is possible in healthcare, even in large, politically sensitive, financially stressed, publicly administered systems. Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D. M.P.H., President and CEO, National Quality Forum
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FEATURES
Making Performance Reports Work
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Find out how
performance reporting impacts the outcomes of services.
Report
of the Expert Panel on the Legionnaires Disease Outbreak in the City of Toronto,
September/October 2005
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LONGWOODS ONLINE
Quality & Excellence at
Canadian Blood Services provincially funded and federally regulated. Report from
Dr. Graham Sher, CEO. Download PDF (an exceptional presentation
about a extraordinary national health organization)
Making & Sustaining
Change in Healthcare | Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D. | courtesy of SAS Download
PDF
The 2004 Canadian Health
Accreditation [CCHSA] Report Click Here
The complete set of
unabridged Patient Safety Papers in two volumes:
Part A (2.8 MB) Download PDF
Part B (3.7 MB) Download PDF
Whats important in Health Records? Click here.
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CASE STUDIES
Reducing Patient Transportation Costs ::
Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital (HDGH) in Windsor, Ontario was faced with a $20 million deficit in 2002-2003. In an effort to reduce
and/or eliminate this deficit, cost-cutting strategies were explored. Patient
transportation costs were identified as...
Infrastructure for Board Accountability: Governance
Structures and Processes for a Community Hospital ::
Ontario Creates a Centralized RFP Process from Which
all Participants Emerge as Winners ::
In late November 2004, Ontario's
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care launched an inaugural bulk-purchase
initiative for the replacement of 28 computed tomography (CT) scanners and
eight magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines across the...
More
case studies from the Longwoods Case Studies Library
The latest news, best practices, policies and ideas about electronic
health records.
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GET EVERYONE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION TO PARTICIPATE
Stock a medical clinic, Sponsor a child, Provide supplies for an entire
classroom, Supply 2 hens & a rooster to produce 500 eggs a year, Produce milk
and pull a plough at the same time with water buffalo. If December gets you
down. Get Relief
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BEST READ
Here are all
the new Patient Safety Papers (Dr. Ross Baker, editor) in two
parts.
Patient Safety Papers Part A (2.8 MB) Download
PDF
Patient Safety Papers Part B (3.7 MB) Download PDF
(Made available by the support of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Ontario Hospital Association)
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NOMINATION ALERT: SickKids Foundation has created Rotman Award for
Paediatric Home Care Innovation. The $100,000 award will go to a Canadian
non-profit organization that delivers home and community health care services
to infants, children, youth (0-18 years old) and their families. The deadline
for nominations is January 31, 2006. Details here: www.cyhn.ca
Scholarship
Announcement for Rehabilitation-Related Research with TD Bank Financial Group:
$300,000 over three years. For Graduate Students with Disabilities. Application
deadline is May 1, 2006.Contact Lois Ward at ward.lois@torontorehab.on.ca
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BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS | Open registration for everyone. Space is limited. First
come | first serve.
December 15. Philip Hassen, CEO, Canadian Patient Safety
Institute (CPSI) -- a year-end report | A new years plan | a demonstration of
good Federal/Provincial relations. Register with Lina Lopez: llopez@longwoods.com
. Map and details from Lina. Time: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. At the new home of
the Faculty of Medicines Department of Health Policy, Management and
Evaluation (HPME) at 155 College Street. (Join us for breakfast
at 7:30 a.m.). Expect a thank you present from Longwoods for all attendees.
This is fourth of a series exploring the role of federal agencies in fostering
constructive federal/provincial relations.
SEVEN CONFERENCES: Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) Legislation |
Human Resources: Mandatory retirement legislation | Updates to Occupational
Exposures | Review of Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) | Public health
and emergency management legislation | Long-Term Care | Bill 123, Transparency
in Public Matters Act. Visit www.oha.com/conferences
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CALL FOR PAPERS: For February 15th 17th, 2006. 7th National Conference
on Quality in Health Care Whos Improving Health Care in Canada? Tough Questions, Great
Results. Four Seasons Hotel, Toronto, Ontario. Key note speakers: Dr. Jim Reinertsen
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) 97th Annual Conference. Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia. May 28-31, 2006. Must be submitted online by January 13, 2006. See www.cpha.ca
PHARMACY STUDY: OHA issues a call to hospitals to submit applications
to participate in a pharmacy study. See www.oha.com/PharmacyTransformationProject
Call for
Presentations: (HCPRA)
Healthcare Public Relations Associations call for speakers at the Whistler
Conference is now on-line under Education/National Conference. Full details on
submission criteria as well as the application form are posted on the site and
attached. The deadline for speaker submissions is December 14, 2005. See; www.hcpra.org
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LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS
Cliff Nordal to President and CEO of
London Health Sciences Centre, effective January 1, 2006.
Dr. Janet Rossant [Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick
Children]: the 2005 Michael Smith Prize in Health Research.
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LEADERSHIP AWARDS: Canadas Health
Informatics Association (COACH)
Lynn
Nagle, RN, PhD. - Leadership in the Field of Health Informatics Award
Nancy Gabor, Evaluations Coordinator, NORTH Network
- Emerging Leader in Health Informatics
NORTH Network Telemedicine Program -
Innovation in the Adoption of Health Informatics Award
Elaine Sawatsky, E. Sawatsky & Associates
- President's Award
Elizabeth Borycki, School of Health
Information Science, University of Victoria.- Steven Huesing Scholarship Award
LEADERSHIP
AWARDS: Canadian Healthcare Information Technology Trade Association
(CHITTA)
Clinicare Corporation,
Company of the Year Award
Webmed Technology (Dr.
Jonathan Burns), Healthcare Transformation Award
Active Web Corporation
(MedShare), Project Implementation Team of the Year Award
McKesson Information Solutions Canada; Corporate Citizenship, Multinational
Corporations
ClinicareCorporation,
Corporate Citizenship; Canadian Owned
SASKATCHEWAN Health Research Foundation
Achievement Awards 2005
Biomedical Research - Dr. Lorne A. Babiuk
Clinical Research Dr. Jawahar (Jay) Kalra
Socio-health Research Dr. James A. Dosman
Top New Investigator Establishment Grant Biomedical: Dr. Ali
Honaramooz
Top New Investigator Establishment Grant Socio-health: Dr. Donna
Goodridge
Top Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Biomedical: Dr. Lina Pettersson
Top Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Socio-health: Dr. Shaelyn Strachan
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LEADERSHIP JOBSITE
Regional
Vice President, Cancer Services, Windsor
Chief Executive Officer - James Bay General Hospital
Director,
Health Reports - Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Assistant
/Associate Professor - Athabasca University, Athabasca AB
Clinical
IT Project Manager - Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, ON
Program
Director, Surgery and Woman & Child - Ross Memorial Hospital, Lindsay, ON
Director,
Information Technology Services - Shared Information Management Services (SIMS)
Vice
President, Medicine - IWK Health Centre, Halifax
Challenging
Opportunities - The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Faculty
Position, Health Care Management - The Sauder School of Business, UBC,
Vancouver,BC
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 (PDF)
Nursing
Leadership Careers (PDF)
For leadership recruitment advertisements contact Susan Hale. | 416-864-9667 X 104
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NEWS & IDEAS from TIME | ITBUSINESS | SCIENTIFIC AMERICA | MACLEANS | LONGWOODS
1. Forward this to your PR department and to find out more about newspaper Journalists.
2. Niagara Falls for Web-Deployed PACS
3. Ontario Seeks Standard Approach to Data Management
4. Healthcare Facts, Figures
5. A-Z Guide to the Year in Medicine
6. Top Sci/Tech Gifts 2005
7. Turn it down!
8. Sister Elizabeth Davis (Would you send me a
year-end message for the eLetter?)
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