NRHA's Quality and Clinical Conference: Network and explore quality clinical care, as well as the Black Hills
July 20 - 22, 2011
Rapid City, SD
Make time to network with your colleagues at NRHA’s Quality and Clinical Conference July 20-22 in Rapid City, S.D. This interactive event is designed specifically for quality and performance improvement coordinators, researchers, hospital administrators, and doctors and nurses practicing on the front lines of rural health care.
Last year's attendees said the variety of topics presented was "excellent," and they loved the "real-world examples" of successful rural health care collaborations between hospitals and other organizations.
The sixth annual event will feature:
- telehealth and quality innovations and solutions
- a tour and hands-on demonstration of a mobile health unit that serves rural populations
- a keynote address from Mark Levine, MD, chief medical officer at the Denver Region Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- the impact ACOs may have on rural hospitals, post-acute care and physician providers
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Webinar: The Joint Commission Hospital Standards for Emergency Management and the Survey Process
June 28, 2011 @ 1:00 PM ET
Is your hospital prepared for the next Joint Commission survey? These surveys are now unannounced, rather than planned, as they were in the past. When the surveyors come through your hospital’s door, key managers, directors, or members of the administrative staff may not be on site that day. The focus of accreditation is shifting from preparing for the "exam" to continuously using the standards as a means to achieve and maintain excellent operational systems, and deriving significant internal benefits.
Join our complimentary webcast presented by the Joint Commission to:
· Review key Joint Commission Emergency Management Standards
· Get suggestions to help your hospital meet these standards
· Identify best practices
· Learn what to expect during the survey process
Speaker:
David Dagenais, BS, SASHE, CHFM, CHSP
Life Safety Code Specialist
Mr. Dagenais has been a Joint Commission Life Safety Code Specialist since 2010 and is trained under the Accreditation Manual for Hospitals.
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AHRQ’s 2011 Annual Conference: Leading Through Innovation and Collaboration
September 18 - 21, 2011
Bethesda, MD
Register now for AHRQ's fifth annual conference, scheduled for September 18-21, at the Bethesda North Marriott Convention Center in Bethesda, MD. Sessions will feature pioneers (AHRQ funded and non-AHRQ funded) in health care who are leading change based on innovative approaches to solving safety, quality, and access issues. There will be opportunities for interactive exchanges so participants can gather information relevant to their own needs as well as information on tools and expertise so participants can take steps to improve care directly in their communities. The meeting also will emphasize how AHRQ and its researchers are leading change in addressing today’s challenges in improving access to care and its quality and cost, as well as partnering with others at the forefront of these issues. Experts and leading authorities in health care research and policy will hold sessions on critical areas including quality improvement initiatives, health information technology, patient safety, care transitions, and hospital-acquired conditions. As with previous years, the conference also will include the mAHRQet Place Café, featuring posters and displays of Agency-sponsored research and implementation activities.
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National Rural Health Day - November 17th
NOSORH Selects, Partners Endorse November 17 as First National Rural Health Day
Mark your calendars – the first National Rural Health Day will be Thursday, November 17!
National Rural Health Day is the major piece of a new NOSORH campaign to recognize and celebrate the Power of Rural! Our hope is to make National Rural Health Day an annual event that highlights rural communities as wonderful places to live and work; increases awareness of rural healthrelated issues; and promotes the efforts of SORHs and NOSORH in addressing those issues.
NOSORH recently met with several of its closest rural partners to seek their feedback regarding National Rural Health Day. The National Rural Health Association, Rural Recruitment
and Retention Network, National Cooperative of Health Networks and Office of Rural Health Policy
provided suggestions for refining the proposed key messages and indicated a willingness to encourage their members and partners to join the celebration as well.
Stay tuned for more information and resources throughout the summer and at the NOSORH Annual Meeting in September. In the meantime, NOSORH is asking SORHs to be prepared to:
• Share the news – tell your partners, media contacts, etc. (NOSORH will provide a fact sheet and generic media releases)
• Seek gubernatorial/legislative proclamations (NOSORH will provide template)
• Put the National Rural Health Day logo on your website
• Celebrate on November 17 (which could be as simple as answering your phones by saying “Happy
National Rural Health Day”)
» For more information, contact NOSORH Communications Coordinator Bill Hessert or Communications Committee Co-chair Karen Madden
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