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The 2nd Annual International Summit on Redesigning Hospital Care

 
  March 30, 2006  
     
 
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Atlanta Georgia
June 12


The General Conference sessions are based on six focus areas or "tracks." These include:

Process: The voice of the workings of the system: Are the parts and steps in the system performing as planned? This track will provide strategies for measuring and improving processes that cut across a hospital’s continuum of care and affect multiple departments, efficiency and patient outcomes. It will highlight a combination of proven approaches plus new, cutting edge ideas from innovative faculty.

Outcome: The voice of the customer or patient: How is the system performing? What is the result? This track will address the top issues affecting patient outcomes and mortality; learn about proven strategies to improve these high risk areas, which will save lives (or decrease mortality)

Leadership: How can you lead improvement in your department? This track will help identify what tasks leaders must be undertaking if they are to accelerate improvement, and how you can do those leadership tasks. It will emphasize the role of leadership in driving safety and quality, integrating into other strategic priorities, where leaders should be headed.

Culture: How do you work with your colleagues? This will offer practical approaches for changing the culture through improved communication and training in human factors, strategies that support team work, creating an environment that supports safety and quality.

Workforce: This track will address the key issues affecting the front line staff and how to approach change in a way that supports and helps retain valuable staff; designing improvement and ensuring staff development and satisfaction simultaneously.

Space and Structure: How is the work and workplace organized? This track will focus on the underlying support structures of how the work gets done and the design of the physical workspace to support quality and safety efforts.





 
 
Organized by: The Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Invited Speakers: Our Plenary Speakers are:

Shirley Franklin was elected the 58th Mayor of the City of Atlanta in 2001. A first time candidate for public office, she became the first female mayor of Atlanta and the first African American woman to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Her accomplishments as mayor include improvements in services for the homeless, decreased crime and murder rates, a strong ethics reform program, and infrastructure enhancements to improve pedestrian and vehicle safety. Mayor Franklin also currently serves as a member of the Democratic National Committee and Treasurer of the Democratic Party of Georgia. In 2005, Time Magazine named her one of the top five mayors in the country.

Tamra Merryman, RN, MSN, FACHE, Vice President, Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation, UPMC Health System, has been with the system and its predecessor Shadyside Hospital for 15 years. Prior to her current position, she was Vice President of Patient Care Services. More than nine years ago, Ms. Merryman created the Clinical Design Initiative at Shadyside Hospital to provide clinicians more time with their patients, create excellent systems and enhance patient satisfaction. Her participative but decisive style of leadership has resulted in millions of dollars being reinvested back into patient care. Ms. Merryman is also part of the hospital team participating in the IHI and RWJF project, Transforming Care at the Bedside.

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is one of the nation's leading authorities on health care quality and improvement issues. He is also clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Berwick has served as vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the first "Independent Member" of the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association, and as chair on the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Berwick now serves on the IOM’s governing Council. He served on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. Co-chaired by the secretaries of health and human services and labor, the Commission was charged with developing a broader understanding of issues facing the rapidly evolving health care delivery system and building consensus on ways to assure and improve the quality of health care.

Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), is also Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, at George Washington University School of Medicine. Previously, she held positions at AHRQ as Acting Director and Director, Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research. Dr. Clancy is Senior Associate Editor of Health Services Research and she serves on numerous other editorial boards. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and has edited or contributed to seven books.

 
Deadline for Abstracts: June 12
 
Registration: Enrollment


$795 Early General Conference Registration (by April 8th, 2006)

$895 Regular General Conference Registration

$760 Group General Conference Registration Rate (5 or more)

$395 Morning Learning Labs (held on June 12, 2006 from 8:30am-12:00pm)

$395 Afternoon Learning labs (held on June 12, 2006 from 1:00pm-4:30pm)


E-mail: info@ihimail.ihi.org
 
   
 
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