What’s your resolution? | Longwoods eLetter January 10, 2012

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The Fraser Institute Wait Time Reports: Madness in the Method, but Method in the Madness “…the Fraser Institute hardly conceals its raison d’etre. The more important question is why the media so willingly and uncritically reports its findings.” -Steven Lewis

Essays

Chasing CEO Talent in Healthcare: Is It Really About the Money? By Steven Lewis

Off the Cuff

Its January 2012: What are your Resolutions?

Conflict Resolution in Healthcare

Crisis resolution and home treatment teams prevent hospitalizations

Preventing and Managing Conflict: Vital Pieces in the Patient Safety

Evolve to Essence: speed, coverage, and resolution, have enabled a wide range of clinical advancements

Alberta is where the action is. You are a nurse. If you agree with both those statements visit jobs.longwoods.com. The opportunities are seemingly unlimited.

All about concussions (what you need to know)

If you are reading this chances are that someone will think you are an expert in healthcare. Even if you work in the front office. Read on.

Many sports, it seems, have to deal with concussions. Our national pastime hockey is no exception. It likely that you know people who organize, coach and play the game. So this is for you:

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by a bump, blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain.

From a paper by Dr. Charles Tator: A push or check from behind accounted for 74 (40%) of the 184 cases of injury for which there was adequate documentation to determine the mechanism of injury. An impact with the boards accounted for 157 (77%) of the 204 cases of injury.
Dr. Brian Goldman says: (see CBC Commentary) One voice heard across Canada this Saturday could galvanize action (to prevent concussions). If this weekend, Don Cherry uses his Coach’s Corner segment on Hockey Night in Canada as a bully pulpit to inspire the NHL and the Players’ Association, it would be one voice too many too ignore. Your move, Mr. Cherry. And here is the helpful part . . .
If you are or you know a coach here is the best resource page we could find. Share it with your teams’ coaches, managers and the league’s referees. From the Center for Disease Control: Everything you need to know about Traumatic Brain Injury

It’s mostly good news about cancer incidence and mortality rates in the annual report issued Wednesday by the American Cancer Society.

Get LinkedIn to the publisher and get the conversation going.

The Virginia Mason Production System: What it Is, and Why it’s Better for Your Patients

Gary S. Kaplan, MD, Chairman and CEO The Virginia Mason Medical Center

Featured article: brought to you by RelayHealth: Public Health in Canada: A Difficult History

Help Us Build Our Future: Toronto Central CCAC

Federal health role is about more than money

News

Fortis Institute, Nashville Launches PN to RN Bridge Program
Institutional Review Board Services (IRB Services) Awarded Full Accreditation for Protecting Research Participants
Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology Celebrates Ten-Year Partnership: Abbott ACURA Uro-Oncologic Radiation Awards
Doctors Agree on Top Healthcare IT Benefits
Generic Prescription Medicines Saved Canada’s Health-Care System $26-billion

A Bit of Business News

Consistently billed by Forbes as one of the world’s most innovative companies, despite being over 100 years old is 3M
According to Forbes the top fifty companies as rated by its employees include the following familiar to healthcare: Bain & Company #1; McKinsey & Company #2; Johnson & Johnson #28; Cleveland Clinic #36; Accenture #43; PricewaterhouseCoopers #45; Eli Lilly #46
General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. to create a joint venture aimed at helping healthcare organizations and professionals use real-time, system wide intelligence to support integration of care processes and the patient experiences.

Breakfast with the Chiefs

Register Now!
Tom Closson “In conclusion . . .”
January 11, 2012, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Sponsors: Accenture, Baxter, Sanofi, Deliotte, NRC Picker

Conferences

January 10-12, 2012: Webinar. Use Evidence to Inform Your Practice: CHSRF’s EXTRA Program
January 25, 2012: Webinar. Hospital Automated Inventory Management Systems
January 27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Inaugural Patient-Centered Care Symposium
February 3-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. National Institute on Nursing Informatics.
February 8, 2012: Webiar. FIPPA Case Managment
February 13, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advanced Health Leadership Program – Rotman School of Management
February 15, 2012; Montreal, QC. 2012 CEO Forum
February 21-24, 2012, Vancouver, BC. Canadian Patient Safety Officer Course
February 23-24, 2012: Toronto, ON. Patient, Family and Community Engagement – Conference and Workshop
February 28-29, 2012: Vancouver BC. Will paying the piper change the tune?  Promise and pitfalls of healthcare funding reform
March 1-2, 2012: Vancouver BC. Mastering the Art and Science of Healthy Work Environments, QWQHC 6th Annual Summit
April 2-4, 2012: Toronto, ON. Ontario Public Health Convention
April 13-14, 2012: Ottawa , ON. CMA and CSPE Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership
April 25-26, 2012: Toronto, ON. Conference for Administrative Professionals
April 25-27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advances in Health Informatics Conference – call for papers now open
May 4-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. 2012 National Health Law Conference
May 22-25, 2012: Toronto, ON. The Dorothy Wylie Nursing & Health Leaders Institute
May 28, 2012: Montreal, QC. Appplied Research in Cancer Conference
May 31-June 1, 2012: Toronto, ON. Second Annual National Nursing Executives Summit
May 29-31, 2012: Montreal QC. Annual CAHSPR Conference – Call for Abstracts
June 4-5, 2012: Halifax, NS. National Health Leadership Conference

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Maureen O’Neil of CHSRF named Chair of the Board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Diana Smalley to Chair, The American College of Healthcare Executives

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