Quote

“Sarah Palin is (Half) Right about Obesity Policy”. Neil Seeman tells us why here.

Essay

The Ugly Australian by Steven Lewis

Off the Cuff

• Self-Reported Medical Errors in Seven Countries: Implications for Canada
• Deadly Medicine by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas.
• The Canadian Patient Safety Institute has released its strategic plan
• Canadians Leading Longer, Healthier Lives Than Americans.
• Port Huron Hospital welcomes Canadian patients.

“I had to do quality improvement to learn about it.” from an essay by Linda A. Headrick, MD, MS, Helen Mae Spiese Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Faculty Development, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia.(From the book Lessons Learned edited by Dr. Paul Batalden)

GE’s Health By Numbers program encourages all employees to achieve and maintain optimal health. By focusing on four specific health issues and encouraging healthy choices, Health By Numbers targets the most critical and controllable factors that affect a person’s overall health and well-being.

Our Editors Recommend

• TOCSIN: A Proposed Dashboard of Indicators to Control Healthcare-Associated Infections by Régis Blais, François Champagne and Louise Rousseau
• Healthcare-Associated Infections as Patient Safety Indicators by Michael A. Gardam, Camille Lemieux, Paige Reason, Marlies van Dijk and Vivek Goel
• A Sabbatical Journey of Discovery: Patient Safety by Mary Ferguson-Paré
• Office Home Care Workers’ Occupational Health: Associations with Workplace Flexibility and Worker Insecurity by Isik U. Zeytinoglu, Margaret Denton and Sharon Davies
• Whose Record Is It Anyway? Putting Patients’ Interests at the Heart of the Implementation and Use of Electronic Medical Records by Rebecca L. Mador, Nicola T. Shaw, Stephen Cheetham and Robert
• Adults with Chronic Cough in Urban Bangladesh: Healthcare Utilization and Management of Cases by Private Practitioners by S. Hossain, C. P. Larson, M. A. Quaiyum, A. I. Khan, K. Zaman, V. Begum and N. C. Saha

News

• In-house medical expertise for Accreditation Canada
• Study shows more frequent hemodialysis yields significant improvements for kidney patients
• Pace Homecare completes acquisition of the home care operations of Physical Relief Health Care Services.
• Medbuy pioneers safe practice guidelines for chemotherapy products in Canada
• Robotic surgery of “tremendous benefit” to patients, say JGH researchers
• U of T researchers: Switch off enzyme to control chronic pain
• Improving Rural And Northern Health Care
• HP Awarded Contract to Implement Texas Electronic Health Information System Network to enhance healthcare delivery
• Seven CAMH scientists win Young Investigator awards focused on breakthrough research
• Rick Hansen Institute and Accreditation Canada to develop first ever standards for spinal cord injury care and services in Canada
• Groundhogs are right 39 percent of the time; winter weather requires extra care for humans with high blood pressure
• Saskatchewan patients being asked about their experience in hospital emergency departments: Survey by province’s Health Quality Council, health regions
• More…

Breakfast with the Chiefs

Monday, January 24, 2011
Janet Davidson, President & CEO of Trillium Health Centre, and
Steven Lewis, health policy and research consultant based in Saskatoon, and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at the University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University.
Topic: What is the Role of a Community Hospital? Really.
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Room 106, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON
Sponsors: Accenture and Baxter
Register here

Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Saäd Rafi, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Steven Lewis, health policy and research consultant based in Saskatoon, and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at the University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University.
Topic: Can Economics Compete with Politics in Ontario’s healthcare system?
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital, Ben Sadowski Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON
Sponsors: Accenture and PricewaterhouseCoopers
Register here

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Conferences

January 20, 2011: Ottawa, ON. From Innovation to Transformation: Delivering and Sustaining Results
January 21, 2011: Toronto, ON. Hospitalist Programs
January 27, 2011: Toronto, ON. Freedom of Information: A Primer
February 7, 2011: Toronto, ON. Health Care 2011: Information and Knowledge Leading to Change
February 7-11, 2011: Toronto, ON. Advanced Health Leadership Program
February 13-15, 2011: Montreal, QC Nursing Leadership Conference
February 16, 2011: Montreal, QC. 2011 CEO Forum: Leadership Accountability in Canadian Healthcare. Hosted by CHSRF
February 22-23, 2011: Vancouver, BC. CHSPR 2011 Health Policy Conference
February 22, 1011: Toronto, ON. The Role of Primary Care in Health System Reform
February 28, 2011: Toronto, ON. Nurse Practitioners: Essential Partners in Improving the Health Care System
March 2-3, 2011: Mississauga, ON. QWQHC 5th Annual Summit
March 20, 2011-November 24, 2011: Multiple Locations. Physician Management Institute leadership development program
March 24 & 25, 2011: Toronto, ON. Nursing Leadership Network of Ontario 2011 Conference
April 4-5, 2011: Toronto, ON. Healthcare Management Forum: Process Improvement and Operational Excellence
May 4-5, 2011: Markham, ON. Ontario Gerontology Association, 30th Annual Conference
May 13- 14, 2011: Vancouver, BC. Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership

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Transitions

Don Taylor to the Canadian Care Team, Port Huron (Michigan) Hospital.
Veronica Taylor to the Canadian Care Team, Port Huron (Michigan) Hospital.

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Featured Careers

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• Chief Nursing Executive & Vice President, Professional Practice – Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, Whitby, ON
• President & Chief Executive Officer -Trillium Gift of Life Network,  Toronto, ON
• Senior Director of Client Services – Toronto Central CCAC, Toronto, ON
• Corporate Chief and Medical Director for Diagnostic Imaging – The Scarborough Hospital, Scarborough, Ontario
• VP, Finance & Corporate Services & VP People & Clinical Support Services – Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, Burlington, ON
• Vice President, Biologics and Vaccines – Rx&D Canada’s Research Based Pharmaceutical Companies, Ottawa, ON
• Manager EDCDP – HealthForceOntario, Toronto, ON

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