Upcoming PCPI Webinars

As part of your membership in IAHQ, you have access to a variety of free services from PCPI, including webinars. There are two coming up in which you may be interested:

Delivering Value and Quality in Volume

October 11, 2017, 12 pm CT

As the U.S. healthcare system shifts to more value-based care, health care providers and professionals need to be prepared to make major changes in the way they structure, organize and provide care. Orthopedics, specifically joint replacement was one of the first conditions targeted by the new “bundling” approach implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2016. In this 60-minute webinar, you will hear from Anthony M. DiGioia, MD, from the Bone and Joint Center at Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC, about how he and colleagues prepared for this major change and what their experience has been so far. As CMS moves to expand value-based care and bundling programs to other specialties, these lessons will be invaluable. Dr. DiGioia will also discuss his soon-to-be released book, The Patient-Centered Value System: Transforming Healthcare Through Co-Design.

Please Register here.

Making your Measurement Matter: How Hospice and Palliative Care Answered the Call

October 19, 2017, 12:00 pm CT – 1:00 pm CT

Register for an overview of the “Measuring What Matters” initiative, which will serve as a precursor to the PCPI’s fall meeting panel session on meaningful measurement during which various groups will describe how they have determined what matters to their constituency and how they are going about addressing those gaps in quality measurement.

Speakers include:

A moderated Q&A and discussion period will follow. 

New PCPI Leading Practices Webinar: QI Lessons from the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative: November 28 at 1 pm ET/12 pm CT/10 am PT, featuring David Lagrew, MD, Executive Director Women’s Services, St. Joseph HOAG Health. Register now!

PCPI Fall Conference

PCPI will be holding it’s 2017 Fall Conference from October 24-26 in Rosemont, and IAHQ qualify for the member discount and attend advisory committee meetings. The conference brings together leaders from performance measurement, clinical registries, and quality improvement to share ideas, network, and collaborate on innovative solutions to improving health outcomes. Keynote speakers include: Glenn Steele Jr., MD, PhD, Chairman, xG Solutions and former CEO of Geisinger Health System; John Mattison, Assistant Medical Director and Chief Medical Information Officer at Kaiser Permanente; and John Toussaint, MD, CEO at Catalysis and formerly CEO of ThedaCare, and Shingo Prize-winning author of Potent Medicine the Collaborative Cure for Healthcare. There will also be a special breakout session on how North Shore Physician Group (Massachusetts) improved flow, physician satisfaction and patient safety by using the Virginia Mason Production System. For more information about the 2017 Fall Conference, use the link provided.

In support of IAHQ’s goal to serve as the professional community for quality improvement professionals across the healthcare continuum in Illinois, the IAHQ LinkedIn Group discussion forum will be an open community, although IAHQ membership is strongly encouraged. A few ground rules and expectations apply:

1)     Questions and sharing of lessons is strongly encouraged; solicitation of products or services is NOT (IAHQ has a zero-tolerance policy for solicitation – you will be blocked in the future).

2)     If you have a free, non-commercial offering such as a tool or tool kit, webinar or briefing that has valuable lessons for the IAHQ community, please feel free to share. If you are unsure, send an email to:  i [email protected]

3)     Civil interaction is expected. Respect is the basis for all improvement work. If you are unclear what this means, think back to what your parents taught you. This includes: NO YELLING in your electronic communications.

4)     Have fun and make new professional friends! 

Please celebrate Healthcare Quality Week (HQW), October 15-21, to recognize the contributions you, your healthcare quality team, and your organization make to improve quality and patient safety in Illinois for all our residents – friends, families and visitors. Please share (include photos) what you’re doing in the IAHQ LinkedIn Group Forum or send an email to [email protected] so we may feature in future IAHQ News. Visit the NAHQ website to download complimentary resources such as a press release template, poster, and sample posts. You may also order HQW items for giveaways and prizes from NAHQ.

There has never been a more exciting time to work in health care quality. Quality professionals like you have and will have an enormous impact on the quality and safety of health care services that customers receive. That includes our friends and families in the communities where we live and serve. If you feel that IAHQ could help you be a quality professional or if you have an idea to help your peers, please say so. If you just want to roll up your sleeves and get involved, IAHQ has several volunteer member opportunities right now. To share an idea or volunteer, please send an email to: [email protected]

Opportunities include:

Membership

Annual Conference and Programming

Sponsorship

Marketing Communications

Website and Social Media

Apply for the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award by October 30. The award recognizes major achievements by individuals and organizations to improve patient safety and healthcare quality. Each year, the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Joint Commission recognize the best examples of individual, local, and national efforts to improve patient safety and healthcare quality through the prestigious Eisenberg Awards. These awards bring the quality community together to honor groundbreaking initiatives that are consistent with the aims of the National Quality Strategy: better care, healthy people and communities, and smarter spending. Submission are open through October 30, 2017. Awards will be presented during NQF's 2018 Annual Conference, March 12-13, 2018, in Washington DC.

Pioneers in Quality (PIQ) is a Joint Commission program to assist hospitals on their journey towards electronic clinical quality measure adoption that includes educational programs (e.g., webinars for CEUs), a resource portal, recognition categories, an advisory council, a modified annual report, speaker’s bureau outreach, a peer – to – peer solution exchange, as well as having a strong focus on partnering with hospitals to provide the highest level of quality care for patients and their families.

If you have a free resource or event that would assist IAHQ members in their QI or patient safety efforts, please let us know.

IAHQ will post available jobs in QI and patient safety as a service to our members. If you have a job you would like posted, email: [email protected]

Coordinator Quality Resources, Mercy Health, Rockford, IL

Facilitates accomplishment of health system quality goals and implementation of quality improvement in operations, serving as an internal expert and consultant of performance improvement and measurement.

Requirements:

Apply online

Performance Improvement Project Consultant, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

The Performance Improvement Consultant serves as a subject knowledge expert to those engaged in quality improvement work at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. As an internal consultant for all levels of the hospital, the Performance Improvement consultant establishes strong working relationships with interdisciplinary members of the health care team including the medical staff, nursing and other operational areas, administration, and support services by directing and coaching to successful achievement of identified goals. The Performance Improvement Consultant works closely with Senior Leadership as the lead facilitator in improvement activities that are strategically aligned with organizational goals. He/she plans and manages the corporate-level performance improvement projects, applies performance improvement science, and is responsible for oversight of data collection, data management, and data analysis, as well as for planning the operational implementation of selected solutions and control plans. Leading by example, he or she acts as a change agent who spreads the mindset of continuous improvement and systematically drives and implements improvement throughout the organization. 

For more information: Apply here



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