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Our Partners

One of QHN's four core values is collaboration. We are committed to strengthening relationships through partnerships with other organizations that share our passion for excellence in healthcare.

Accreditation Canada

Accreditation Canada, formerly known as, the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation (CCHSA), has partnered with the Quality Healthcare Network (QHN) to present a workshop on meeting Accreditation Canada's Required Organizational Practices (ROPs). As a preconference option to the QHN Fall Forum, we have partnered to offer members Spotlight on Required Organizational Practices, which took place on Monday, November 19, 2007 at Le Hilton, Lac-Leamy, Gatineau, PQ and Monday, November 17, 2008 at the White Oaks Conference Resort, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON.
http://www.accreditation-canada.ca

Canada's Hand Hygiene Campaign
The Quality Healthcare Network is a partner in Canada's Hand Hygiene Campaign. Canada has joined the Global Patient Safety Challenge and has committed to participate in the Clean Care is Safer Care initiative. Canada’s Hand Hygiene Campaign has been developed based on discussions with healthcare providers, unit managers, Infection Prevention and Control Professionals and senior healthcare leaders such as hospital CEOs and directors of healthcare facilities across Canada. The goal of Canada’s Hand Hygiene Campaign is to promote the importance of hand hygiene in reducing the occurrence of healthcare-associated infections in Canada.
http://www.handhygiene.ca

 

Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI)

In 2005, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) partnered with the Quality Healthcare Network among many others, to launch the Safer Healthcare Now! (SHN) Campaign - Canada's largest patient safety initiative in Canada. SHN is an ambitious pan-Canadian patient safety campaign to implement six targeted interventions in health care organizations that have been proven to prevent avoidable adverse events. The QHN supports the Ontario arm of this campaign and encourages all of its members to join to improve patient safety in Ontario and save lives. For more information on the campaign or to sign up please go to www.saferhealthcarenow.ca.

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has partnered with the Quality Healthcare Network (QHN) to provide members with an Open House on Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) - a series of free workshops for healthcare providers and quality improvers interested in using HSMR to improve quality of care. On November 29, 2007, CIHI will be publicizing the Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) for all Canadian healthcare organizations. In an effort to prepare and support our members, we have been collaborating with CIHI to provide information sessions, workshops and background material on HSMR.

The next Open House is scheduled for November 13, 2007 8:30 am - 12:00 pm at the North York General Hospital, General Site, Toronto Ontario. For more information on this and other QHN events, go to our events listing.
http://www.cihi.ca

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)

QHN developed the 2007-2008 Researcher on Call, five, one-hour teleconference call series that links participants by teleconference to researchers and decision makers who are making improvements in healthcare. This program was developed in partnership with the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF).

Each of the five calls were designed to clarify the findings in the selected research, identify and illustrate actions that could be taken on the findings and explore the issues and challenges in fully implementing the findings in various settings.
A time for question and answers helped participants consider the implications of the research results for improving their practice.
http://www.chsrf.ca

Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC)

This year the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC) - Canada's leading provider of healthcare liability insurance, partnered with the Quality Healthcare Network (QHN) to run a series of workshops to promote the Safer Healthcare Now! campaign in Ontario. The one-day workshop, entitled Passport to Safety: Setting Checkpoints Across Ontario ran over seven days throughout Ontario and across all Ontario Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs). The workshop was also aired over a two hour Ontario Telehealth Network (OTN) broadcast. The workshop series was attended by 320 individuals, representing 70 healthcare organizations across Ontario.
http://www.hiroc.com/

Kingbridge Conference Centre & Institute

QHN holds its Spring Symposium at the Kingbridge Conference Centre & Institute. The Kingbridge is a perfect venue for our member meetings. The Kingbridge offers a new approach to meetings in healthcare. They believe a meeting is not an event, it is a process. Their mission is to assist in that process and groups like us achieve superior meeting outcomes. Located only 20 minutes from downtown Toronto on 114 rolling acres, Kingbridge is a dedicated conference centre offering 42 ergonomically furnished meeting rooms, 124 thoughtfully appointed guestrooms and acclaimed global cuisine.
http://www.kingbridgecentre.com

Ontario Health Quality Council (OHQC)

The Ontario Health Quality Council (OHQC) has partnered with the Quality Health Network (QHN) to offer those who are passionate about improving care to tune in to a free web broadcast of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. This partnership has allowed us to offer this broadcast free on December 11-12, 2007.
http://www.ohqc.ca