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“. . . while many boards have concentrated on advocating on behalf of their hospitals during this period of transition, not enough attention has been paid to rethinking and restructuring hospital governance to better meet the challenges of change.” Mark Hundert looks at governance.

Essays

In Pursuit of a National Nursing Report Card by Susan VanDeVelde-Coke

Off the Cuff

Lessons learned about Lessons Learned

This best selling book is available chapter by chapter if you go online, but for a meager $14.99 you can buy the whole eBook online including the table of contents and the carefully honed index. We have designed it so you can read it on your computer, on your IPads, IPhones and all those other readers. Even that old fashioned Blackberry of mine serves it crisply and clearly. And you will enjoy reading about doing your work and improving it; what matters is what happens; shared decision making, quality and corruption, how change is about culture and more. Much more. Go here: Lessons Learned in changing healthcare… and how we learned them.

. . . and from Ross Bakers series on patient safety: Have you ever thought of Using Death Review to Improve Care and Reduce Harm and Aiming for Zero Preventable Deaths. Read it now while you are thinking of it. Like everything else in this journal is free.

Organizing Primary Care for an Integrated System. Walter W. Rosser and Jan Kasperski. How are we doing ten years later? HealthcarePapers.

Please consider making a nomination for the 2011 Margret Comack Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership. The nomination deadline is August 5, 2011. For more details click here.

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How to …

• How to Recruit a High-Performing Hospital Board by Ron Robertson and Melanie Serjak
• How to Define and Measure Hospital Quality [From Boardroom to Bedside] by Michael Heenan, Haajra Khan and Dorothy Binkley

Our Editors Recommend

• Family as a Social Determinant of Health: Implications for Governments and Institutions to Promote the Health and Well-Being of Families by Ted McNeill
• Workplace Design Contributions to Mental Health and Well-Being by Jennifer A. Veitch
• Community of Practice: A Nurse Practitioner Collaborative Model by Judith Burgess and Linda Sawchenko
• Is Patient-Centred Care Associated with Lower Diagnostic Costs? by Moira Stewart, Bridget L. Ryan and Christina Bodea
• Rethinking Our Approach to Disease Management: Technology and Information Flow Considerations by Zun Lee and Myrna Francis
• Breastfeeding in Cambodia: Mother Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices by Hilary Wren and Lori Chambers

Our Readers Recommend

• Healthcare Innovation: Extreme Affordability
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• Organizing Primary Care for an Integrated System
• Research: Evidence-based Nursing Practice: How to Get There from Here
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• Book Review: Lessons Learned In Changing Healthcare And How We Learn Them
• Canada: Dignity in Diversity? A Reflection
• Access to Cancer Drugs in Canada: Looking Beyond Coverage Decisions
• A Wake-Up Call for Healthcare Boards

See Best Read Articles on our home page Longwoods.com

News

• Lawson Researchers Take Control of Cancer
• Study shows new medication may be effective in reducing negative metabolic side effects of some schizophrenia treatments
• Yoga boosts stress-busting hormone, reduces pain: York U study
• Ontario Institute for Cancer Research receives $420 million over five years for important cancer research in Ontario.
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Conferences

• August 4, 2011: Broadcast. FIPPA and Implications for Hospital Communicators (webcast/videoconference)
• September 7-9, 2011: Huntsville, ON. Health Care Leadership Summit 2011: A New Environment and New Realities
• September 19-20, 2011: Toronto, ON. 4th Annual Lean in Healthcare
• September 20, 2011: Toronto, ON. Maternal & Newborn Care Conference
• September 22- 23, 2011: Toronto, ON. Patient Safety in Mental Health: Shining a Light on Suicide
• October 2-4, 2011: Edmonton, AB. 2011 Accelerating Primary Care Conference
• October 4, 2011: Toronto, ON. Quality Improvement and Performance Measurement in Critical Care – Call for Abstracts Now Open!
• October 5, 2011: Toronto, ON. 2011 Health Care Human Resources Symposium
• October 17, 2011: Toronto, ON. Mobile Health Symposium
• November 21-22, 2011: Toronto, ON. Children’s Mental Health Ontario Conference

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For more information please contact conferences@longwoods.com

Transitions

• Frank Markel to Jewish Vocational Service of Toronto
• Bill Marra to Executive Director, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital Foundation, Windsor, ON  (effective September 26, 2011)
• Kay Blair to Chair, Board of Directors, William Osler Health System, Brampton, ON
• Richard Vennettilli to Chair, Board of Directors, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital Foundation, Windsor, ON
• Lindee David to CEO, ALS Society of Canada
• Liz Mullan to Board of Directors, Belmont House, Toronto, ON

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Featured Careers

See the entire list of leadership and nursing careers at Jobs.Longwoods.com

• Director, Provincial Benefits and Claims Management- Ontario Hospital Association Toronto, ON
• Chief Executive Officer, Renascent – The Renascent Fellowship, Toronto, ON
• Regional Vice President, Cancer Program – Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital & Cancer Care Ontario, Sudbury, ON
• Post Acute Manager – Rouge Valley Health System, Scarborough, ON
• Administrative Director – London Laboratory Services Group, London, ON
• Chief Operating Officer – Sherbourne Health Centre, Toronto, ON
• Director, Decision Support – London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON
• Manager, Clinical Services – Surgical Services Fraser Health, Chilliwack, BC
• Project Coordinator, Adopting Research to Improve Care Program – Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario Toronto, ON
• Executive Director, Pharmacy Services – Fraser Health Langley, BC
• Patient Care Manager – Obstetrics / Newborn Unit & Medical / Surgical Unit – Halton Healthcare Services, Milton, ON
• Director, Analysis & Reporting – Health Council of Canada, Toronto, ON
• Program Manager, Capital Equipment Cooperative – Ontario Hospital Association, Toronto, ON

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