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“What is quality healthcare?”, the Health Quality Council of Saskatchewan asks the question and provides its response. . . “Health services must meet the standards of quality based on patient needs. But services can also produce higher levels of satisfaction through extra care and attention to detail.” For the complete response click here: Quality Improvement Toolbook.

Essays

Why I Support Bariatric Surgery. Arya M. Sharma, MD

Off the Cuff

“There is increasing awareness that health services boards cannot abdicate their responsibilities for ensuring quality and safety and need to take specific actions to address these duties” Kevin Barclay quoting Maura Davies while discussing Effective Governance: Helping Boards Acquire, Adapt and Apply Evidence to Improve Quality and Patient Safety.
Leading Quality through the Development of a Multi-year Corporate Quality Plan: Sharing The Ottawa Hospital Experience Linda Hunter, Joanne Myles, Jim Worthington and Monique Lebrun
From Chaos to Quality Care: Selections from an Interview with Jack Kitts Brian Golden

Stats and more from British Columbia
Vancouver Island Health Authority Financials year ended March 2010
Vancouver Island Health Authority Schedule Of Payments To Vendors Receiving More Than $25,0000

There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency. For more information please visit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CHSRF Mythbusters:
Medicare Covers All Necessary Health Services
C-Sections Are on the Rise Because More Mothers are Asking for Them

Paediatrians!!! Did you know that Longwoods has a special series dedicated to Child Health? The second in the series is out now, dedicated to mental health, the first one was dedicated to social determinants. To ensure you find out about future releases sign up for the Healthcare Quarterly New Issue release email.

Our Editors Recommend

• From Benefits Evaluation to Clinical Adoption: Making Sense of Health Information System Success in Canada by Francis Lau, Morgan Price and Karim Keshavjee
• Strategic Purchasing to Improve Health System Performance: Key Issues and International Trends by Reinhard Busse, Josep Figueras, Ray Robinson and Elke Jakubowski
• Informatics and Quality Improvement/Assurance by Leanne M. Currie
• Availability of Healthcare Resources, Positive Ratings of the Care Experience and Extent of Service Use: An Unexpected Relationship by Paul A. Lamarche, Raynald Pineault, Josée Gauthier, Marjolaine Hamel and Jeannie Haggerty
• Measuring EMR Adoption: A Framework and Case Study by Morgan Price, Francis Lau and James Lai
• Treating Common Illnesses among Children under Five Years: A Portrayal of Health-Seeking Behaviours and Practices in the Northern Areas of Pakistan by Babar T. Shaikh and Dave Haran

Our Readers Recommend

• How Do We Compare? Lifting Our Game on Healthcare Performance
• Effective Teamwork in Healthcare: Research and Reality
• Foreword: High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality By Design by Adalsteinn Brown
• Research: Evidence-based Nursing Practice: How to Get There from Here
• Afterword: High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality By Design by Steven Lewis
• Adoption of Information Technology in Primary Care Physician Offices in Alberta and Denmark, Part 2: A Novel Comparison Methodology
• Transfer of Accountability: Transforming Shift Handover to Enhance Patient Safety
• The State of Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada: Past Problems and Future Fantasies
• The Editor’s Letter by Mary Jo Haddad, introducing a special issue on child mental health
• Home First: Reducing ALC and Achieving Better Outcomes for Seniors through Inter-organizational Collaboration

News

• Chronic Pain Shatters Lives
• World fertility experts to meet in Montreal for a trio of symposia
• Changes coming to Capital Health Tim Hortons outlets
• Enlarged prostate: decade-long study demonstrates immediate and long-term benefits of holmium laser treatment
• Ontario Institute for Cancer Research announces Spinoff Companies Developing Promising Anticancer Technologies
• Education of next generation of nurses to include effective clinical use of information and communications technologies
• Canadian Grandmothers Stride to Turn the Tide of AIDS in Africa
• KPMG Acquires Health Care Consultancy Group (HIO)
• New $50,000 Bloomberg Manulife Prize to promote research into active lifestyles
• Public Invited to Join Global Mental Health Discussion
• Molecular Researchers Discover Novel Gene Linked to Aging Hearts
• 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, CGI, KPMG, and PwC
Register here

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

Dr. Robert Bell, Dr. Mary Ferguson-Paré and Sholom Glouberman – September 22. 2011

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

Conferences

• 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
• June 30, 2011: Toronto, ON. National Case Management Network of Canada – Call for Abstracts

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

Transitions

Will Falk to Board of Directors, Home Capital Group
Peter Cokestake to Board Chair, Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization
Jocelyn Chisamore to the position of National Co-Chair, Emerging Health Leaders
Joanne Shum to the position of National Co-Chair, Emerging Health Leaders
Mary Beth Valentine to Interim Registrar of the Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority (RHRA)
Dr. Dave Williams to President and CEO, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket ON.
Dr. Tara Allen to Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, ON
Tony Dagnone to Interim CEO, Medbuy
Dr. Kevin Smith to reviewer of appropriate clinical coverage (urgent care) in the city of London, ON.
Dr Nasir Jetha to the Board of B.C. Medical Services Commission
Dr. Peter Angood to Medical Director, GE Patient Safety Organization (PSO)
Kelly Isfan to President and CEO, Norfolk General Hospital, Simcoe ON.

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Featured Careers

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

• Project Manager (IT) – Consolidated Health Informatiion Services, Windsor, ON
• Project Manager – Consolidated Health Informatiion Services, Windsor, ON
• Manager, Patient Safety – Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, ON
• CEO / Executive Director – Newfoundland and Labrador Health Boards Association, St. John’s, NL
• Director, Information Technology – Bridgepoint Health, Toronto, ON
• Manager, Planning & Project Management – Toronto Western Hospital (UHN), Toronto, ON

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

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