QHN MEMBER E-UPDATE - February 7, 2008

HIGHLIGHTS:

 

GENERAL ANNOUNCMENTS

This Month's Centre Stage - Michael Heenan, Director Quality Planning & Performance Improvement with St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton Ontario.

As part of our new membership benefit package and our ongoing commitment to collaboration, we are giving impassioned improvers within the Network centre stage on our refreshed website. We are proud to present February's profile, our third in this series, Mr. Michael Heenan, Director Quality Planning & Performance Improvement with St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton Ontario.

We have started to profile new members first, as a means of orientating them to the Network. Please feel free to use this opportunity to welcome Mr. Heenan and St. Jospeh's Healthcare to the Network.

Click here to read his profile.

 

 

QHN EVENTS

Quality Healthcare Network Announces its 2008 Spring SymposiumSymposium

The Quality Healthcare Network is pleased to provide its members this preliminary announcement for the 2008 Spring Symposium on April 31, May 1&2 at The Kingbridge Centre, King City, Ontario.

This year’s Symposium is entitled Enabling a Culture of Integration One Story at a Time: Quality at the Crossroads, and will focus on the following four themes:

  • service integration 

  • client transition across sectors 

  • storytelling as a tool for change 

  • measurement for change & improvement 


    • The objectives of this our third annual Symposium are to:

  • demonstrate effective strategies that improve the quality of the transitions and hand-offs in care across the system
  • discuss enablers and barriers to client transition across sectors 

  • gather a broader appreciation of other sector challenges in this process

    • If you haven't already, please mark your calendars. We are lining up a creative, innovative and eclectic program - one that Members have come to expect. If your organization has an effective client transition story or successful service integration strategy that you would like to share with Members, please let us know by contacting Cynthia Majewski (416-351-3761) or Tanya Flanagan (416- 351-3704).

    New Special Discount!
    Bring a nonQHN Member to the 2008 Spring Symposium and receive a 5% discount on your 2009-2010 QHN Membership Renewal.

     

    Quality Healthcare Network and the Ontario Health Quality Council Partner to Sponsor Safer Healthcare Now! Storyboard Reception in Winnipeg

    The Quality Healthcare Network in partnership with the Ontario Health Quality Council is sponsoring a storyboard reception at the 5th National Learning Series in Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 1, 2008.

    This wine and cheese storyboard reception will give Safer Healthcare Now! teams an opportunity to share their improvement journeys. Storyboards will be available throughout the event for viewing. For more information, please click here or contact sean.molloy@qhn.ca.

    Call for Ontario Safer Healthcare Now! Storyboards

    This is your opportunity to share your Safer Healthcare Now! intervention successes and learning.
    Click here for storyboard submission instructions or contact Sean Molloy at sean.molloy@qhn.ca.

    Successful storyboards will not only profile their teams at the 5th National Learning Series event, but the best Ontario storyboard will be selected and offered the following:

    • Free registration to 5th National Learning Series in Winnipeg, Manitoba
    • Profile on Quality Healthcare Network homepage
    • Profile on Ontario Health Quality Council homepage
    • Profile in Hospital News' patient safety feature article.

     

    EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

    As a benefit of membership, we offer our member organizations the opportunity to post their most current employment opportunities on our website. Please click here or go to our website for an up-to-date list of jobs. If you have a posting you would like to include, please feel free to send it to tanya.flanagan@qhn.ca.

     

    RECOMMEND READING

    Crocker, Liz and Bev Johnson. Privileged Presence: Personal Stories of Connections in Health Care. Bull Publishing Company. 2006.

     

    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

    Contact Information

    Tanya Flanagan, Communications and Media Relations
    Quality Healthcare Network
    Ontario Node, Safer Healthcare Now!
    790 Bay Street, 9th Floor
    Toronto, Ontario M5G 1NB
    tel: (416) 351-3704
    tanya.flanagan@qhn.ca
     
     
     
    Quality Healthcare Network - Safer Healthcare Now!

    790 Bay Street, 9th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1N8   Phone: 416.351.3760 • Fax: 416.351.3762 • Web: www.qhn.ca