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“Quality Is Susceptible to Corruption. We need to proceed with caution in our interpretation of the medical literature.” … Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM | :Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine. From Chapter 2: Listening to Those We Seek to Help, from the book Lessons Learned in changing healthcare… and how we learned them.
Essays
Transforming Ontario’s healthcare system: To regionalize or not to regionalize: Ontario needs a different path to health and economic wellness by Lisa Purdy
Off the Cuff
Longwoods.com is back!! by Anton Hart
Good Health Follows the Smiling Fish . . . and from this comes the lesson learned . . . read the next item.
At the core of KT
In the Toronto Star article about the little iron fish delivering iron to the women of Cambodia, we read: One more lesson Charles learned? That marketing is the flip side of science. “You can have the best treatment in the world, but if people won’t use it, it won’t matter.” The University of Guelph version left that out. Pity. Scientists would do well to study Harvard’s Ted Levitt and gain some insight into the human psyche’s route to acceptance. Here is one of his most famous book sections from “Marketing Imagination”
Tom Closson, President and CEO Ontario Hospital Association. Closing Remarks of HealthAchieve2011
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How to …
Change Care Delivery through Experience in Practice by Peter Margolis, MD, PhD
Recommended Reading
Healthcare Quarterly
Developing Leadership within an Academic Medical Department in Canada: A Road Map for Increasing Leadership Span
Peter S. Craighead, Ronald Anderson and Rosemary Sargent
HealthcarePapers
Building a Safety and Quality Culture in Healthcare: Where It Starts
W. Ward Flemons, Thomas E. Feasby and Bruce Wright
Nursing Leadership
Nurse Managers’ Work Stressors and Coping Experiences: Unravelling the Evidence
Sonia A. Udod and W. Dean Care
Healthcare Policy
Advancing Coordinated Care in Four Provincial Healthcare Systems: Evaluating a Knowledge-Exchange Intervention
Grace Warner, Renee Lyons, Victoria Parker and Stephen Phillips
Electronic Healthcare
Benefits Realization Framework for a Large Complex Health System
Damon C. Mayes and Jacques S. Romney
World Health & Population
Reducing Maternal Mortality in Senegal: Using GIS to Identify Priority Regions for the Expansion of Human Resources for Health
Philip Massey
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News
- Canada has Potential for Even Greater Contributions to Global Health, according to New Report by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
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Breakfast with the Chiefs
Dr. Jack Kitts, President and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital
Thursday, December 1, 2011
8:00 am – 9:00 am (join us at 7:15 am for breakfast)
Topic: Quality at the Bedside, Quality Across the Country
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, 6th Floor Room 610, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON
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Conferences
- November 17-18, 2011: Toronto, ON. Ontario Health and Community Care Assessment Conference
- November 18, 2011; Vancouver, BC. QWQHC 6th Annual Summit, call for good practices
- November 21-23, 2011; Halifax, NS. Infoway Fall Partnership Conference
- November 20, 2011; Montreal, QC. A Caregiver’s Journey
- November 28-29, 2011: Toronto, ON. Ivey Global Health Conference
- December 1, 2011: Toronto, ON. Ontario Simulation Expo
- December 2-4, 2011: Toronto, ON. Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp
- December 8 & 9, 2011: Toronto, ON. Social Media/Health Care Communications
- February 3-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. National Institute on Nursing Informatics
- February 13, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advanced Health Leadership Program – Rotman School of Management
- February 15, 2012; Montreal, QC. 2012 CEO Forum
- 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
- April 2-4, 2012: Toronto, ON. Ontario Public Health Convention
- April 13-14, 2012: Ottawa , ON. CMA and CSPE Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership
- May 29-31, 2012: Toronto, ON. Annual CAHSPR Conference – Call for Abstracts
- June 4-5, 2012: Halifax, NS. National Health Leadership Conference
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Conferences on the Longwoods site
Ontario Hospital Association conferences.
Events in Global Health at the University of North Carolina
For more information please contact conferences@longwoods.com
Transitions
- Feria Bacchus to NRC Picker Canada as Vice President, Sales & Marketing
- Debbi Ragogna to Engagement Manager, Healthcare Practice at Odgers Berndtson
- Brian Lewis to President and CEO of MEDEC
- Jeffrey Goldberg to Dean, Science and Technology, Mount Royal University (Calgary, AB)
- Bruce Lazenby to President and Chief Executive Officer, the Ottawa Centre for Regional Innovation
- Chad London to Dean, Health and Community Studies, Mount Royal University (Calgary, AB)
- Fiona McGregor to President, the Canadian Psychiatric Association
- Allan Seckel to Chief Executive Officer, British Columbia Medical Association
- Lee Rose to Editor CharityVillage
- Bill Lau to Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, Tapestry Foundation for Health Care, Vancouver, BC
- Sandra Heath to Chair, Board of Direct to Tapestry Foundation for Health Care, Vancouver, BC
- Sue Paish to Chair, Board of Directors Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Vancouver, BC
- Julie Cookson to Director, Philanthropy and Partnerships Wellspring Cancer Support Network, Toronto, ON
- Lesley Heighway to President and CEO Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation, ON
- Cecilia Tupper to Director, Resource Development Parkinson Society British Columbia, Vancouver
- Renée Latulippe to Executive Director (since September 6, 2011), Addiction Prevention Centre, Montreal, QC
- Leslie Turcotte to Executive Director, Resource Development, VON Canada, Ottawa, ON
- Natalie Meixner to President and CEO, Richmond Hospital Foundation, BC
- Marie-Josée Gariépy to President, La Fondation de l’Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants
- Health Sciences North/Horizon Santé-Nord (HSN) is the new name for the Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital, Ontario. This recognizes that the organization delivers patient care, research, teaching and learning from a network of integrated facilities and programs. CEO is Dr. Denis Ro
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Featured Careers
- Program Director, Community Services – Kingston Community Health Centre, Kingston, ON
- Managing Director – Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON
- Directors – Mississauga Halton Community Care Access Centre, Mississauga, ON
- Chief of Staff – Georgian Bay General Hospital, Midland ON
- Chief of Medicine and Program Medical Director and Chief of Anaesthesia – North York General Hospital, Toronto, ON
- Executive Director, Clinical Programs and Operations, Critical Care, Emergency, Trauma & Abbotsford Regional Hospital, Fraser Health, BC
- President & Chief Executive Officer – The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga, ON
- Registrar / CEO – College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC), Vancouver, BC
- Director, Performance Evaluation Services and Transformation Management Office, Rouge Valley Health System, Toronto, ON
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