Why Should Your Organization Join the Quality Healthcare Network in Ontario?
Click here for print friendly version...
There can be no greater champion for health system performance improvement in Ontario than you, quality improvement professionals working in patient safety, risk and quality improvement in healthcare settings throughout this province. And there is no greater champion for you than QHN.
Be part of an organization committed to providing quality improvement professionals like you with the tools you
need to excel. Be part of Canada’s largest voluntary healthcare improvement network.
Networking for Improved Quality and Safety
• Our true benefit is our collective – our members and the networking and sharing that happens when the
focus is not on a particular organization, but on the quality of our care and the safety of our patients.
Teaching Tools for Change
• QHN’s educational strategy crosses the spectrum of leadership training, professional development and
educational competencies for quality improvement professionals. Healthcare is continuously changing.
As the environment changes, so do the priorities of our members and the areas we target.
Celebrating Leadership in Healthcare Improvement
• At QHN we believe it is our members that make a difference in the quality of care that patients receive.
Because we recognize the value of our members, we are always looking for ways to celebrate our leaders in
healthcare – ways we can recognize our member contributions and their ongoing commitment to quality.
Partnering for Healthcare Excellence
• We believe partnering for healthcare excellence is the only way to effectively achieve safe, quality
healthcare. Partnering with other organizations and individuals that have a stake in the healthcare we
provide allows us to leverage our collective strengths, make the most of limited resources and reach the
greatest number of people.
QHN Member Benefits 2009/ 2010
Networking for Improved Quality and Safety
• Numerous opportunities to network with more than 200 healthcare quality improvement professionals
from over 70 healthcare organizations across Ontario.
• Our spring symposium has deliberately been designed for making connections.
• QHN member organizations open their doors to network members during our QHN open houses to
showcase promising practices and to make connections with those working on similar topics.
• 24 hour access to a very responsive and highly effective QHN member listserv
• Access to research and best practices collected through our membership expertise and member
conference and workshop presentations. All posted on our website at www.qhn.ca.
• Quality Connections, our monthly e-newsletter.
Teaching Tools for Change
• A first rate conference held in the fall on issues that matter to you.
• A members only symposium held in the spring built specifically for collaboration and sharing.
• Free access to QHN open houses hosted by QHN member organizations and held on timely topics that
impact your day-to-day work lives.
• Free seats to improvement workshop series dedicated to improving capacity within your organization on
the model for rapid cycle Improvement.
• Free seats to improvement workshop series dedicated to improving capacity within your organization on
facilitation fundamentals.
• Professional development through seminars, workshops and teleconferences in your communities, on
topics that you need to know about.
Celebrating Leadership in Healthcare Improvement
• A QHN member certificate wall plaque demonstrating your participation in Canada’s largest voluntary
healthcare improvement network and your organization’s commitment to quality improvement.
• A professional development opportunity to be profiled on QHN member centre stage, a dedicated
Internet space on the QHN homepage for profiling impassioned improvers within the network.
• Eligibility for QHN merit award.
• Sole voting privileges for the Canadian Healthcare Excellence in Quality Award (CHEQA) award.
• Opportunities to join QHN advisory groups.
• Access to Safer Healthcare Now! mentor network in Ontario.
Partnering for Healthcare Excellence
• Leadership opportunities to be part of the national Safer Healthcare Now! movement in Ontario with
QHN operating as the secretariat to the national initiative to reduce patient harm as well as the number of
deaths caused by preventable adverse events in healthcare settings.
• Access to partake and present at a very popular, interactive workshop on Accreditation Canada’s Required Organizational Practices (ROPs) in partnership with Accreditation Canada held in the fall.
• Opportunities to participate in the acclaimed annual rL Solutions CHEQA award recognizing Canadian
Health Excellence in Quality.
• Use of QHN logo to promote your quality improvement profile.
• Free advertising for your organization’s events and employment opportunities on our high traffic,
open-access website.
For further information, contact our office at: (416) 351-3760 .
Copyright © 2007. Quality Healthcare Network. All rights reserved.