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Longwoods eLetter June 9, 2009

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“We (including LHINS) can do this: understand the prevalence of diseases and implications of aging. Identify cost effective models of reducing the incidence of disease and caring for people. Project future demands. Establish the appropriate mix of capacities and services.” Tom Closson looks at improving care. The presentation as PDF. The presentation as a Video.

This Just In: Systems Designed to Fail, Fail by Steven Lewis
First there is the disaster that comes to light long after the fact. Then there is the inquiry. Then there is the scathing report that meticulously unearths the causes of the disaster. Then there is the apology (they're allowed now - it's the...

Why consultants use PowerPoint - and other pearls of wisdom from 26 years in the healthcare management consulting industry. Neil Seeman interviews Neil Stuart. Click here.

CHSRF announces 2009 EXTRA Fellows
The Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA) program, led by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF), has added another 28 fellows to its roster. Here are the names of the fellows selected this year: Sonia Bélanger | Agostino Bellissimo | Heather Brown | Pat Campbell | Gerardo Castaneda | Daniel Castonguay | Yves Desjardins | Sarah Downey | Susan Drouin | Dana E. Erickson | Barbara Fitzgerald | Myriam Giguère | Sean Hardiman | Nazlin Hirji | Glenn Kissman | Christina Krause | Janet McElhaney | Wayne Miller | Malcolm Moore | Jacqueline Nobiss | Wayne Overbo | Doug Prince | Yolaine Rioux | Jean Rousseau | Paula Rozanski | David Schramm | David Thompson | Elaine Unsworth. More details on all these individuals here. (PDF).

Hire at 105%. Better care and lower costs. See this Breakfast with the Chiefs video featuring Mary Ferguson Paré here. (Get the slide deck here in PDF)

5 Strategies for Improvement. Breakfast with the Chiefs: Tom Closson, President and CEO, Ontario Hospital Association, presents: (1) Care Pathways (2) Planning (3) E-health (4) Health Human resources (5) Performance Management. See the video here. (Get the slide deck here in PDF)

Longwoods publications are designed to work with Apple's New iPhone 3G S. Buy a complete 300-page eBook and read it on the iPhone. So well done – read it online or your Blackberry too (yes, mom on your PC as well). Here it is . . . . High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality By Design by G. Ross Baker, Anu MacIntosh-Murray, Christina Porcellato, Lynn Dionne, Kim Stelmacovich and Karen Born. An examination of leadership strategies, organizational processes and investments made to create and sustain improvement in healthcare. Click here to purchase the entire book as a PDF file for only $9.

Jennifer Zelmer: Healthcare Policy's New Editor-in-Chief. The introduction here.

HR Resources: the Newsletter, the Longwoods Healthcare JobSheet.

Tidbit: The Magazine Science reports that Canada Geese from Labrador and Newfoundland downed the US Airways Flight 1549 on 15 January. The plane glided onto the Hudson River, with no loss of life. More.

Canadian Nurse Practitioner Job Satisfaction is satisfactory to highly satisfactory. Read about it here.

If your hospital, your clinic or your mental health services need your community, are you prepared to muster their support? Build your community relations now. Don't wait until you really need it. But at a time the community really needs it. Get your employees involved. See here.

Health Information Technology | Consumer Education and Engagement as it’s done in the USA | many cases and resources right here.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – NOW OPEN
The HealthAchieve Awards include: Leading Best Practices | Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership | Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education | All awards will be presented at HealthAchieve2009, November 16 to 18th in Toronto. Photo review of HealthAchieve2008 (PDF). For Awards Sponsorship Opportunities, contact Matthew Hart.

INFLUENZA: RESOURCES
World Health Organization. MORE.
Public Health Agency of Canada: Human Swine Influenza – Latest updates. MORE + their site Fight Flu. MORE.

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Healthcare Quarterly
Balancing Institutional and Community-Based Care: Why Some Older Persons Can Age Successfully at Home While Others Require Residential Long-Term Care
A. Paul Williams, David Challis, Raisa Deber, Jillian Watkins, Kerry Kuluski, Janet M. Lum and Stacey Daub

HealthcarePapers
Faculties of Medicine: Important Contributors to Health Human Resource Planning in Canada
Nick Busing and Irving Gold

Nursing Leadership
Uncovering Blind Spots in Education and Practice Leadership: Towards a Collaborative Response to the Nurse Shortage
Sandra Regan, Sally Thorne and Barbara Mildon

Healthcare Policy
Breadth, Depth and Agreement among Provincial Formularies in Canada
Steve Morgan, Gillian Hanley, Colette Raymond and Régis Blais

Electronic Healthcare
HIMSS Analytics Column: Growing E-health Information Technology Partnership: Canadian Healthcare and HIMSS Analytics
Patrick Powers

World Health and Population
Development of an Effective Public Health Screening Program to Assess Hearing Disabilities among Newborns in Shanghai: A Prospective Cohort Study
Xiaoming Sun, Xiaoming Shen, David Zakus, Jun Lv, Zhengmin Xu, Hao Wu, William Hsiao and Xiaoming Sun

Today’s featured Podcast:

Breakfast With The Chiefs: Dr. Mary Ferguson-Paré
Investment as a Deficit Reduction Strategy - Getting to No Vacancies in a Global Nursing Shortage

Running time: 43 minutes and 03 seconds

Listen here.
See the video here.

Organizations interested in contributing to Longwoods Radio, read this . . . This is a great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using storytelling, compelling lectures or gripping interviews – using simple digital recordings that we distribute on the web. Formatted for iPod listeners, too. For criteria and specifications please contact Christina Hale here. All subject to editorial review and acceptance.

Past Presentations

Breakfast with the Chiefs video from Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - Toronto
Tom Closson, President and CEO, Ontario Hospital Association
Topic: The Five Most Important Ideas to Improve Ontario Healthcare.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HPME, University of Toronto, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAS

Breakfast with the Chiefs video from Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - Toronto
Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, (Runtime: 56:36)
The Day We Stop Caring
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, IBM, HPME, University of Toronto, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Breakfast with the Chiefs video from Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Toronto
Dr. Mary Ferguson-Paré, Vice President, Professional Affairs & Chief Nurse Executive, UHN (Runtime: 48:27)
Investment as a Deficit Reduction Strategy - Getting to No Vacancies in a Global Nursing Shortage
Sponsors: Accenture, Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations, CGI, McKesson Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, HPME - University of Toronto

For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.

The small print: Breakfast with the Chiefs registration requirements:
Do you work at a publicly funded organization? If so, you must hold a current personal subscription for at least one Longwoods journal. This covers attendance for the full season. If you are not a subscriber, click here first. If you are a subscriber, go to this page for information on upcoming dates.

Registrants from private sector organizations, foundations and associations must be registered members of the Longwoods HealthcareBoard. If you are not sure of your status and want more information please contact Matthew Hart at mhart@longwoods.com

To see the photo archives click here. To see our video archives click here.

Jennifer Zelmer to Editor in Chief of the journal Healthcare Policy
Denis Protti an honorary doctorate from City University, London, UK
Paul-Émile Cloutier to Secretary General & CEO, Canadian Medical Association
Murat Firat to the Canadian Medical and Biomedical Engineering Society (CMBES) 2009 Outstanding Canadian Biomedical Engineer.
Mark Brisson to Acting Assistant Deputy Minister and Executive Director of Information Management, Information Strategic Services Division, Alberta Health and Wellness.
Dr. Scott Halperin to head of a national influenza research network focused on pandemic vaccine evaluation -- a partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). More.
Ronald E. Geettam to Chairman of the Board of Directors, Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Inc.
Arnold Steinberg to Chancellor, McGill University
Patricia McCunn-Miller to President and CEO, Climate Change Central
Michael F. O’Callaghan to Senior Client Partner, Korn/Ferry International
Ron Sapsford to acting President and Chief Executive Officer of eHealth Ontario

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Today's Jobs
Director, Human Resources - North Simcoe Hospital Alliance, Midland ON
President & CEO - Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Peterborough, ON
Clinical Nurse Leader/Patient Educator: Renal Pre-Transplant - Providence Health Care BC
Psychologist, Elder Care - Providence Health Care BC
Pediatric Program Manager - Ottawa, ON
Executive Director - Planned Parenthood Toronto
Chief Executive Officer - Central LHIN, Markham, ON
Director Client Services - Central West CCAC, Brampton, ON
Director, Professional Education - Canadian Diabetes Association
Chief Executive Officer - Alzheimer Society of Ontario
Executive Director, ACEN - Ottawa, ON
Manager, Supply Chain Management, Surgery Services - LHSC, London, ON
Program Manager, Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital, LHSC, London, ON
Nursing & Leadership Opportunities with the Provincial Health Services Authority of BC
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