NEWS
October 6, 2008
Re: The Quality Healthcare Network and the Ontario Node of Safer Healthcare Now! Welcome New Staff
The Quality Healthcare Network and the Ontario Node of Safer Healthcare Now! are proud to announce that Doris Doidge has agreed to join QHN as a project manager reporting to a newly formed Advisory Committee who will oversee an exciting new project aimed at improving data collection and reporting for Ontario teams in Safer Healthcare Now!
The goals of this project are to identify and promote leading practices related to patient safety reporting, identifiaction and dissemination processes related to tools that facilaite data capture,
priortization of straegies that will support teams in gathering and reporting patient safety data to the Ontario Node of Safer Healthcare Now!, build alignment of data reporting initiatives from the perspective of the teams gathering and reporting patient safety data to various stakeholder groups.
" We are very fortunate to have Doris’s leadership as we expand our talents, skills and partnerships at the Quality Healthcare Network." says Cynthia Majewski, executive director of the Quality Healthcare Network and Node Leader for Safer Healthcare Now! in Ontario. "Given the enthusiasm and commitment by Ontario healthcare organization's to improve safety, we are pleased to have joined in partnership with the Ontario Health Quality Council as we work on this shared mission together. Understanding Ontario's teams' performance is a first good step -- seeking out best practices and better performers will also be an important element to supporting a strategy for improved, and sustained performance."
To welcome Doris to the network, you can reach her at doris.doidge@qhn.ca.
About the Quality Healthcare Network:The Quality Healthcare Network (QHN) is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the development and adoption of best practices by its members through education and shared improvement projects. Established in 1992 as the CQI Network, the network grew into the Quality Healthcare Network in 2003, a member-based organization, which now exceeds over 70 healthcare organizations that share the courage to move beyond status quo, inspired towards excellence in care and service. In 2005, the network became the Ontario lead of the Safer Healthcare Now! campaign, an ambitious pan-Canadian effort aimed at reducing the number of injuries and deaths related to adverse events, such as infections and medication incidents. For more information about QHN, visit the network website at www.qhn.ca
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