Longwoods eLetter June 28, 2005
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FROM HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
A Day in the Life with OHAfrica in Lesotho,
Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care,
Synthesizing Evidence for Decision-Makers
Dying of Cancer in Canada's Acute Care Facilities,
Getting to the Source of Schizophrenia,
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OUR BREAKFAST SERIES: starting in September
Speakers for Breakfast with the Chiefs already
coming on board; we have confirmed the following:
1. The Honourable George Smitherman, Minister of Health and Long-term Care,
Ontario (Sept. 13)
2. Dr. Robert Bell, CEO, the University Health Network (Oct. 19)
3. Dr. Michael Guerriere, Editor in Chief for Electronic Healthcare.
4. Mr. Michael Decter, Chair, Health Council of Canada
5. Mr. Graham Scott, Chair + Glenda Yeates, CEO, Canadian Institute for Health
Information
6. Mr. Richard Alvarez, CEO, Canada Health Infoway
7. Dr. Graham Sher, CEO, Canadian Blood Services
8. Dr. David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of
Canada
9. Mr. Philip Hassen, CEO, Canadian Patient Safety Institute
10. Dieter Pagani, Director of Information Technology for the Nova Scotia
Department of Health.
Speakers 4 – 9 (in no particular order) will explore how individually and
together these federal organizations "may be a virtuous answer to the
dysfunctional Federal/Provincial/Territorial process."
More speakers will be announced over the summer. Stay tuned. Subscribers do have more options. Subscribers who
represent healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy can
attend any and all of the breakfast series as our guests. If you are a member
of a commercial organization please contact Susan Hale for more information. Lina
Lopez is scheduling the program. Stay tuned or contact Lina for more information.
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Supreme Court Decision & commentary on Chaoulli v. Quebec. Please
go here:
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BEST PRACTICES: from our Case
Study Library
Walking the Tightrope: Creation of the Physician Scorecard at the Rouge Valley
Health System:
Naresh Mohan, Fathi Abuzgaya, Sonia Peczeniuk, Paula Raggiunti, Andrea Gates
and David Brazeau Download
PDF
[Do you have a case study for the Longwoods
Library. Please write our managing editor at dkent@longwoods.com]
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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NURSING
LEADERSHIP
ACEN Update: Calling All Leaders
Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting,
Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
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SPEECHES & PRESENTATIONS THAT MATTER
You will understand how we came to design our
breakfast series if you read: Michael
Decter’s lecture on Canada’s Five Healthcare Challenges. This is an
analysis of provincial innovation and
leadership followed by the use of the federal spending power to render these
innovations into national programs.
[Send your speeches to eLetter@longwoods.com]
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FROM THE JOBSITE for leaders in management, practice, education and
research. Updated daily.
1. Here is our weekly jobsheet: http://www.longwoods.com/website/jobsite/JobSheet.html
2. Nursing opportunities: Nursing Leadership Careers (PDF)
3. Today’s leadership focus: Senior
Operating Officer - University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton
[Send your leadership career opportunities to Susan Hale at mailto: shale@longwoods.com
]
If you are an internationally-educated nurse who wants to work in your
profession in Canada, CELBAN may help you. http://www.celban.org
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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
September 13. Honourable George Smitherman kicks off the Fall session of
Breakfast with the Chiefs. Book it now mailto:LLopez@longwoods.com.
October 19. Dr. Robert Bell, new CEO of
the University Health Network shares his plans and programs at Breakfast with
the Chiefs. Book it now mailto:LLopez@longwoods.com.
September 14. First National CNIA conference. Nurses & Informatics:
Transforming Healthcare. http://www.cnia.ca/CFP.html
September 18. The CAHSPR Conference (register with pcharbonneau@cahspr.ca) in Montreal
just prior to the International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health
Services (ICSBHS) and
following the University of Montreal’s Jean-Yves-Rivard Conference.
September 25-28. National Hospice Palliative Care Conference, Edmonton, Alberta. Visit http://www.chpca.net/events/conference.ht
October 27. The DeGroote School of Business and St. Joseph's Healthcare welcome
The Disney Institute.
To sign up please download the registration
form.
October 31. HealthAchieve. Canada’s international healthcare show. See: http://www.healthachieve.com
November 18. The IC F (Improving Continence Care in Complex Continuing Care)
Quality Congress. (Dr. G. Ross Baker.) See: http://www.hospitalreport.ca/IC5/brochure_ic5-2.pdf
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TRANSITIONS
World traveler Flat Stanley is coming to the Sick Kids Research Institute to accept a position as a summer student in the lab of Dr. Stephen Scherer, a Sick Kids senior scientist, and an associate professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics at the University of Toronto . http://flatstanley.enoreo.on.ca/
[Send your transitions to eletter@longwoods.com ]
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NEWS & INFORMATION
1. Just out: Mental Health 2004
- balanced scorecard for inpatient mental health programs in Ontario.
2. Ontario shelves electronic registry of joint surgery data
3. Duplicate databases protect privacy: Is it worth it?
4. From: McMillan Binch Mendelsohn: CEOs Now
Responsible for Lobbyist Registration
5.
Over 80 healthcare
organizations have enrolled in a Canadian campaign to improve the safety of
their patients. Safer Healthcare Now! - six evidence-based strategies to
improve patient safety. The goal of the campaign is to help a large
number of patient care teams across Canada implement one or more of the
targeted strategies. See: www.saferhealthcarenow.ca or www.soinsplussursmaintenant.ca
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ReSOURCES
1. Ted Freedman Award recognizes those individuals or organizations that
inspire, advocate and enable education in health, health services and health
management. Sponsored by Compass Group Canada. Deadline is Tuesday, September
13, 2005. Download submission guidelines.
2. Therapeutic Clown Award: The Longwoods HealthcareBoard in collaboration with
the therapeutic clowns at the Hospital for Sick Children would like to
recognize therapeutic clowns for what they really are. Deadline is Tuesday,
September 13 2005. Sponsored by the HealthcareBoard. Download submission
guidelines
3. How to Build a Mini Med School: You will find valuable material here: Mini Med School Model One [Toronto]. And Mini Med School Model Two [McGill].
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SOME NOTES ABOUT OUR NEW WEB PAGE. The re-design of the Longwoods.com website creates a
knowledge centre that is current, relevant, searchable and dependable. The more
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