Quote

“. . . a high performing workplace (HPWP) is not about instant success but about long-term viability. All the case studies show that HPWPs need time to establish, nurture and improve.” High Performance Work Practices. UK government commissioned report

Essay

How Well Protected Are Canadian Research Participants: Who Knows? Dot Pringle speaks out.

Off the Cuff

Lessons from Alberta: the road less travelled. Breakfast with the Chiefs featuring Dr. Stephen Duckett,  Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta.

. . .quality improvement initiatives (in Canada) often lack a standardized and consistent approach (while) collaboration across organizations enhances efficiencies, the sharing of best practices, and reduces duplication of effort. . . limited physician engagement and physician champions for quality improvement were cited as challenges to achieving improvements in quality. See the full report from PWC/CHSRF

Join Dr. Robert Howard, CEO of St. Michael’s Hospital as he addresses these and other challenges in developing and managing their quality program. At the magnificent Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute 209 Victoria St in downtown Toronto. Register here for the June 7th Breakfast with the Chiefs.

“A smart patient knows more about coping with their disease than their physician, and Tilda Shalof’s insights into the rigors of heart surgery are even more provocative since she brings a nurse’s wisdom to her own operation.” Dr. Mehmet Oz. More here.

Mapping the field: Nursing scholarship in health human resources is a newly published edited collection of papers from the festschrift in honour of Linda O’Brien-Pallas.

Working with India

Longwoods is sponsoring a “mini brief” on offshoring: getting started, managing the relationships and achieving success. May 19 from 17:30 onwards. Five seats left. For more information contact Matthew Hart at mhart@longwoods.com.

Our Editors Recommend

• Broadening the Patient Safety Agenda to Include Safety in Long-Term Care byTiana B. Rust, Laura M. Wagner, Carolyn Hoffman, Marguerite Rowe and Iris Neumann
• Residential Long-Term Care: Public Solutions to Access and Quality Problems by Irene Jansen
• Bringing Back the House Call: How an Emergency Mobile Nursing Service Is Reducing Avoidable Emergency Department Visits for Residents in Long-Term Care Homes by Annabelle Bandurchin, Mary Jane McNally and Mary Ferguson-Paré
• Prioritizing Information for Quality Improvement Using Resident Assessment Instrument Data: Experiences in One Canadian Province by Anne Sales, Hannah M. O’Rourke, Kellie Draper, Gary F. Teare and Colleen Maxwell
• A Review of General Practice System Certification Programs in Seven Countries and Five Canadian Provinces by Dave A. Ludwick and John Doucette
• Living Arrangements and the Role of Caregivers among the Elderly in Latin America by Antonio J. Trujillo, Thomas A. Mroz and Gustavo Angeles

News

• B Sharp Technologies announces healthcare social media contest
• York University becomes 17th member of MaRS Innovation
• St. Michael’s Hospital kicks off Nursing Week by announcing chair in nursing
• Collaborative group of five leading Toronto Complex Continuing Care and Rehabilitation Hospitals select SSW as their preferred supplier for Supply Chain Management
• Growth in drug spending slows to lowest rate since 1996
• Appointment of Dr. Michael Ignatieff
• Roy McMurtry reappointed as Chancellor of York University
• Wanted: Innovations that Improve Health Care using Information Technology
• Ontario Needs Birth Centres – Midwives Launch Campaign
• Blood test for Alzheimer’s
• New Parent Research Reveals Teething As The Top Health Concern For Children Under Five Years
• New adaptive design studio at Ryerson University produces custom cardboard and communication tools for children with disabilities
• LHSC announces cardiac surgery world first Pacemaker complication repaired using minimally invasive surgery
• Who Helps You to Speak Well…Hear Well…Live Well?
• A New Structure of an Important Immune System Complex Resolves a 10-year Controversy and Potentially Opens the Way for Therapeutic Exploitation
• Boris Family makes $6 million gift to Alcohol Addiction Research at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
• More…

Breakfast with the Chiefs

Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Dr. Robert (Bob) Howard, President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Michael’s Hospital
Topic: From Quality 101 to Quality No. 1
Location: St Michael’s Hospital Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sponsors: Accenture, IBM, Baxter, and CGI
Register here

Upcoming Speakers – Details and registration will be announced in this space soon or sign up for New Events Alerts to be the 1st to know

Dr. Robert Bell, Dr. Mary Ferguson-Paré and Sholom Glouberman – September 2011

Past Presentations can be found here.  All Audio and Video Presentations can be found here.

Conferences

• May 11-13, 2011: Toronto, ON. Innovation and Leadership in Rural and Northern Health Care
• May 13-14, 2011: Vancouver, BC. Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership
• May 16, 2011: London, ON. What is Collaborative Practice Anyway: How IPC is Working in Health Care
• May 24-27, 2011: Toronto, ON. Dorothy Wylie Nursing and Health Leaders Institute
• May 25, 2011: Ottawa, ON. Moving the e-Health Agenda Forward: An Update from Canada Health Infoway
• May 25, 2011: Webcast. Manage Chronic Illness outside Medical Facilities: Introducing InstantPHR
• May 25-27, 2011: Muskoka, ON. First Annual National Nursing Executives Summit
• May 26, 2011: Toronto, ON. HPME Society of Graduates Education Day 2011
• May 26-June 14, 2011: Edmonton, AB. Surveillance for Public Health
• June1, 2011: Toronto, ON. A Dialogue with Tom Closson
• June 6, 2011: Alberta. Accelerating Primary Care – Call for Abstracts
• June 6-7, 2011: Whistler, BC. National Healthcare Leadership Conference (NHLC) / Conférence nationale sur le leadership dans les soins de santé (CNLSS)
• June 9-10, 2011: Toronto, ON. Physician Leadership Summit
• June 16 – 17, 2011: Toronto, ON.  A Call to Action on ER/ALC: Promoting Effective Care Across the Health Continuum
• June 17-19, 2011: Waterloo, ON. Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp
• June 22-24, 2011: Toronto, ON. OACCAC Knowledge and Inspiration 2011

Add your conference to the Longwoods eLetter here
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Ontario Hospital Association conferences.
Events in Global Health at the University of North Carolina
For more information please contact conferences@longwoods.com

Transitions

Dr. Michael Ignatieff to Senior Resident of Massey College, University of Toronto
Florine Lobo to Vice-President, Finance and Corporate Services at Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital
Nancy Hoddinott to Program Leader, Community-Based Services, Nova Scotia Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services
Ann Davis to Campaign Director, Kelowna General Hospital, British Columbia
Marlene Murray to Regional Director, Cancer Research Society, Ottawa, Ontario
Michael Feraday to Executive Director, Barrie (ON) & Community Family Health Team
Adrienne Nolan to Director of Development, University of British Columbia
Wendy Harris to CEO Cancer Research Society, Ottawa, Ontario
Elise Monaghan Joubert to Director, Major Gifts and Planned Giving, York Central Hospital Foundation, Richmond Hill, Ontario

Send your transitions to transitions@longwoods.com
See more Transitions here.

Featured Careers

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

• Director, Information Technology – Bridgepoint Health, Toronto, ON
• Manager, Planning & Project Management – Toronto Western Hospital (UHN), Toronto, ON
• Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Sector IM / IT – BC Public Service Agency, Victoria, BC
• Assistant Deputy Minister, Population and Public Health – BC Public Service Agency, Victoria, BC
• Vice President, Human Resources & Chief Human Resources Officer – Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital, Sudbury, ON
• Senior Policy Advisor – Health Council of Canada, Toronto, ON
• Manager- Rehabilitation and Continuing Care – Rouge Valley Health System, Scarborough, ON
• Senior Director, Patient Care Services – Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, ON

For more information or to post a position go to Jobs.Longwoods.com or email Susan Hale

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