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“The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does–and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.” Colonel Dandridge M. Malone. Here is a real case study in leadership. You are invited to participate.

Essays

LHINS at 5 Years – Further Thoughts – John Ronson responds

Off the Cuff

Great Concert Halls upstaged

When Canada’s national holiday falls on a Friday and the United States celebrate on the following Monday we don’t expect too many visitors dropping by Longwoods.com. Yet 3100 visitors dropped by to read about policies, practices, innovations and news covering healthcare and life sciences. That’s more visitors than the capacity of the Concert Hall at the Kennedy Center in Washington or Ottawa’s National Arts Centre or Carnegie Hall in New York or Thomson Hall in Toronto. Thank you. We’re inspired. Here is a dangerous idea from Neil Seeman you can find on our website. Typical. Maybe that’s why you keep coming back?

Last week’s best read papers:

• Effectiveness of an Adapted SBAR Communication Tool for a Rehabilitation Setting
• Transforming Healthcare Organizations
• LHINs at Five years – What Now?
• Effective Teamwork in Healthcare: Research and Reality
• From Boardroom to Bedside: How to Define and Measure Hospital Quality

Ask an Expert: Interpreting the Personal Health Information Protection Act.

“There is a large voltage drop in the intensity of care at time of discharge.” Dr. Donald Redelmeier as quoted by Dr. Irfan Dhalla in this presentation.

Ballparks are hosting friendly confrontations from coast to coast so . . . Steven Lewis on Baseball

Trend Hunter Jeremy Gutsche is HealthAchieve’s Official Opening Speaker. More.

Call for nominations: The Margret Comack Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership acknowledges outstanding leadership of an nurse employed in a member organization of OHA. The nomination deadline is July 29, 2011. Click here for more information.

Call for Submissions – Leading Practices Awards – Deadline: July 22, 2011. Click here for more information.

Improve Your Memory With These 9 Common-Sense Techniques

There are more than 60 Healthcare Leadership and Nursing positions on our Job Board. Go to jobs.Longwoods.com to see them all.

Our Editors Recommend

• Evaluating the Balanced Scorecard at the University Health Network: An Impact Assessment by Justin Young, Robert Bell, Adil Khalfan and Evert Lindquist
• Making Performance Reports Work by Adalsteinn D. Brown, Hamida Bhimani and Hugh MacLeod
• Using a Nursing Balanced Scorecard Approach to Measure and Optimize Nursing Performance by Lianne Jeffs, Jane Merkley, Sandy Richardson, Jackie Eli and Mary McAllister
• Adapting the Balanced Scorecard for Mental Health and Addictions: An Inpatient Example by Elizabeth Lin and Janet Durbin
• The Impact of Diagnostic Imaging Investments on the Canadian Healthcare System by Simon Hagens, David Kwan, Craig Savage and Mark Nenadovic
• Re-positioning the Role of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine as Essential Health Knowledge in Global Health: Do They Still Have a Role to Play? by Daniel Hollenberg, David Zakus, Tim Cook and Xu Wei Xu

Our Readers Recommend

• Transformational Leadership to Promote Cross-Generational Retention
• Workplace Design Contributions to Mental Health and Well-Being
• Spatial and Temporal Variations in Incidence of Tuberculosis in Africa, 1991 to 2005
• Implementation of Admission Medication Reconciliation at Two Academic Health Sciences Centres: Challenges and Success Factors
• Accelerating the Workplace Health Agenda
• How Do We Know? Evidence-Based Research and Knowledge Transfer
• Fire, Aim… Ready? Alberta’s Big Bang Approach to Healthcare Disintegration
• Legal Issues in Patient Safety: The Example of Nosocomial Infection
• Privatization and Management Development in the Healthcare Sector of Georgia
• Informing Policy Making and Management in Healthcare: The Place for Synthesis

News

• Pediatric MRI to Reduce Risk for Children
• Philips simplifies medical imaging equipment support with service agreements that adapt to customers’ business needs
• E-Prescribing Doesn’t Slash Errors, Study Finds
• Teen focused scoliosis website goes live
• Bloomberg researcher named one of Canada’s Rising Stars in Global Health
• Healthcare Sector Moves to Reduce Duplication and Waste in Administrative Processes
• The AMS Phoenix Project: A Call to Caring
• The Canadian Radiation Oncology Foundation/Sanofi-Aventis Research Innovation Award Announces 2011 Grant Winners
• More to long wait times than stranded alternate-level-of-care patients, says COA President
• More…

Conferences

• July 10-13, 2011: Toronto, ON. IHEA Pre-Conference Symposium
• September 7-9, 2011: Huntsville, ON. Health Care Leadership Summit 2011: A New Environment and New Realities
• September 19-20, 2011: Toronto, ON. 4th Annual Lean in Healthcare
• October 17, 2011: Toronto, ON. Mobile Health Symposium
• November 21-22, 2011: Toronto, ON. Children’s Mental Health Ontario Conference

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

Transitions

Dr. David Butler-Jones reappointed as Chief Public Health Officer of Canada
Brad Holman to chair, the Hanover and District Hospital board of directors (Ontario)
Lindee David to CEO, ALS Society of Canada
Paul Leon to Chair, Board of Trustees, Niagara Health System, Ontario
Michael (Mike) Farrell to President and CEO, Niagara Health System Foundation, Ontario
William F. Rogers to Chair, Board of Directors, Trillium Health Centre
Jim Orban to President and CEO, Heart Institute Foundation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario
Chantal Dompierre to Executive Director, Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation, Ontario

Recognized by the Order of Canada
Bob McDonald, O.C., Officer, Toronto, ON – Communications
Maureen O’Neill, Officer, Ottawa ON – Public Service
Peter Alexander Singer, O.C., Officer, Toronto, ON – Healthcare
Ronald G. Worton, O.C., Officer, Ottawa ON – Healthcare

Members of the Order of Canada
Arnold Aberman, C.M., Member, Toronto, ON – Healthcare
John M. W. Bradford, C.M., Member, Brockville, ON – Healthcare
Vera Dewar, C.M., Member, Stratford, P.E.I. – Healthcare
Jean-Claude Fouron, C.M., Member, Montréal, Que. Healthcare
John H. V. Gilbert, C.M., Member, Vancouver, BC – Healthcare
Malcom Gladwell, C.M., Member, New York N.Y. and Elmira, ON – Communications
Ruth E. Kajander, C.M., Member, Thunder Bay, ON – Healthcare
Robert Y. McMurtry, C.M., Member, Picton, ON – Healthcare
Alvaro Morales, C.M., Member, Kingston, ON – Healthcare

Send your transitions to transitions@longwoods.com
See more Transitions here.

Featured Careers

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

• Clinical Educator Medicine/Nephrology/Neurology – The Credit Valley Hospital Mississauga, ON
• Director, Organizational Health Management – Ontario Hospital Association Toronto, ON
• Policy Analyst – Health Council of Canada , Toronto, ON
• Senior Director Client Services – Central West Community Care Access Centre, Brampton, ON
• President & Chief Executive Officer – The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, ON
• Program Director, Urban Health – Sherbourne Health Centre, Toronto, ON
• President – BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC
• Executive Director, H.R. & Organizational Development – Bilingual – Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
• Strategic Human Resources Business Partner – William Osler Health System, Brampton, ON
• Community Health Care Client Services Managers – Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre, Toronto, ON
• President and Chief Executive Officer – Niagara Health System, St. Catharines, ON
• Decision Support Analyst – Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO), Toronto, ON

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

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