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CURRENT
RESEARCH AND NEWS
Report
Published on Boards and Capital
Allocation
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HRET
and the Center for Healthcare Governance (the
Center) recently conducted an online survey of
294 hospital and health system CEOs about the
role of their boards in the process of capital
allocation. Survey results revealed several
competencies related to capital allocation that
are emphasized when selecting new board members
as well as recent challenges boards have
encountered related to capital allocation for
new construction, renovation, and IT investment.
Read more survey findings
here.
This survey is part of a continuing series of
online surveys on health care governance
conducted by HRET and the
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FELLOWSHIPS
Applications
Now Being Accepted for the 2009-2010 Patient
Safety Leadership Fellowship
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Are
your investments in patient safety yielding
lasting results?
Learn how you can help raise the bar and
stimulate performance improvements in your
hospital. Nominate interested staff and
colleagues from your organization for the
2009-2010 class of the Patient Safety Leadership
Fellowship.
Now
in its eighth year, the program provides a
powerful combination of instructional modules
and action learning. Patient Safety fellows
explore in depth the business, cultural, and
leadership implications for embracing cultures
of safety. The program is best suited for
seasoned practitioners who are looking for an
advanced program to enhance their skills in
leading safety efforts within their
organization. The fellowship accrues positive
returns for both the individual and their
organization. Each fellow gains critical skills
to impact strategic initiatives, implement
change, and spread promising practices more
systematically. The fellowship is cosponsored by
the AHA and National Patient Safety Foundation,
in partnership with HRET, Health Forum, the
American Organization of Nurse Executives, the
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management,
and the Society of Hospital Medicine.
February
20, 2009, is the deadline to submit applications.
To learn more about curriculum and requirements,
visit www.hretfellowships.org,
or call (312) 422-2610.
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UPCOMING
EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
HRET
Sponsors Free Workshops on Perinatal HIV
Testing
Each
year approximately 144 to 236 infants in the
United States acquire HIV infection through
perinatal transmission, and about 40 percent of
those infants' mothers were not tested until
birth or later. These statistics are evidence of
the need to implement HIV screening particularly
among pregnant women.
In
our continuing effort to work toward this goal,
HRET, the South Florida Hospital &
Healthcare Association, and the
Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training
Center are holding "Getting to Zero: How
Hospitals Can Use Rapid Tests to Virtually
Eliminate Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission."
This free workshop will be held at the
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
on Monday, December 8. Open to hospital staff
from labor and delivery, nursery, emergency,
laboratory, infectious disease, and pharmacy,
the workshop will discuss implementing perinatal
rapid-screening HIV tests at your
facility.
To
register for this workshop, contact Jennifer
Reiter at jreiter2@aha.org
or (312) 422-2637.
Professional
Development Workshop - January
30-31
The
Patient Safety Education Project (PSEP) invites
you to attend the upcoming Professional
Development Workshop on January 30th and 31st at
the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. This
program is sponsored by The EPEC Project,
Northwestern University's Feinberg School of
Medicine and has been designated as an
educational activity for a maximum of 13.75 AMA
PRA Category I Credits?. Physicians should only
claim credit commensurate with the extent of
their participation in the activity.
This
2 day workshop provides the theory, tools, and
practice you will need to become an effective
teacher. National experts in adult education as
well as other PSEP faculty will present plenary
and comprehensive practice sessions. At the end
of the workshop, participants will have acquired
the skills necessary to teach more effectively
using the three teaching formats:
- Interactive
Lecture
- Case-based
- Role
Play
For
more information or to register, please visit
http://patientsafetyeducationproject.org.
ACHI
Audioconference on Designing a Community Benefit
Dashboard
Join
ACHI for the audioconference "Designing a
Community Benefit Dashboard," co-sponsored by
VHA, Inc., on Wednesday, November 19, at
1:00-2:00 p.m. CT (11:00-12:00 PT, 12:00-1:00
MT, 2:00-3:00 ET). Three experts in the field
will discuss how to use dashboards to measure
and track an organization's community benefit
performance over time. They will focus on
features of the community benefit dashboard, the
development process, and determining which type
of dashboard is appropriate. Speakers are
Cynthia LeRouge, PhD, associate professor of
Decision Sciences/Information Technology
Management at John Cook School of Business at
Saint Louis University; Monica Chiarini
Tremblay, PhD, assistant professor in the
Department of Decision Sciences and Information
Systems at Florida International University; and
Lynn Baskett, vice president at John Muir
Community Health Alliance in Concord, CA.
Session details and registration can be
found
here.
Mark
Your Calendars: 2009 Spring Training for Health
Champions Conference
The
sixth annual ACHI conference, Spring Training
for Health Champions, will be March 11-13, 2009
in Los Angeles. The conference Web site is now
live. For more information on topic
tracks
or to learn more about the conference, including
participants, registration fees, and a detailed
schedule of events, click
here.
CENTER
FOR HEALTH MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
CHMR
Summary on Clinical Service Lines
This
month's highlighted plain language summary from
the CHMR Web site is "Clinical Service Lines in
Integrated Delivery Systems: An Initial
Framework and Exploration" written by Victoria
Parker, DBA, Martin Charns, DBA, and Gary Young,
JD, PhD, all from Boston University. The summary
discusses the authors' CHMR research project on
clinical service lines implemented by health
care systems and the motivations, organizational
arrangements, and implementation issues
associated with their management. To read the
full article, click
here.
Join
CHMR
CHMR
is a unique collaboration of hospital and health
system leaders and outstanding academic
researchers working to identify and investigate
topics on improving the quality and
effectiveness of health services delivery and
management and produce actionable research. For
more information, visit the CHMR
Web site
or contact Nadine Caputo at ncaputo@aha.org
or 312-422-2629, or Debbie Pierce at dpierce@aha.org
or 312-422-2635.
RECENT
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
HSR
Highlights
Quality and Efficiency in Health
Care
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Articles
featured in the Health Services Research
inaugural Theme Issue, Improving Efficiency
and Value in Health Care- published in
October by HRET and supported by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-present
efforts to move beyond efficiency measurement to
improvement, by reducing unnecessary cost and
waste while at the same time maintaining or
improving quality.
The
December HSR issue features additional
articles on studies examining quality and
efficiency, including one study testing the
effects of competition on HMO quality measures
and another study on measuring hospital
inefficiency among urban hospitals.
To
view the HSR Web site, click
here. |
H&HN
Article Discusses Project to Reduce Health
Care-associated Infections
"Supporting
Change," an OutBox column by John R. Combes, MD,
president and COO of the Center for Healthcare
Governance, appears in the November issue of
Hospitals & Health Networks. Dr. Combes
describes the Comprehensive Unit-based Patient
Safety Program (CUSP), started by Peter
Pronovost, MD, and his team at Johns Hopkins
University (JHU) and embraced by the Michigan
Health & Hospital Association (MHA). CUSP
combines proven patient safety techniques with a
systematic focus on safety culture and has
significantly reduced central line-associated
bloodstream infections (CLABSI); about 250,000
cases of CLABSI occur in U.S. hospitals each
year. HRET is partnering with JHU and MHA, with
support from AHRQ and the AHA, to replicate CUSP
in 10 states and at least 10 hospitals within
each state over a three-year period. Read
"Supporting Change."
SPOTLIGHT
ITEM OF THE MONTH
The
WalkRoundsTM Guide
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Effective
patient safety plans start with ensuring a
culture of safety. Leadership
WalkRoundsTM were developed
specifically to grow cultures of safety within
health care organizations. The
WalkRoundsTM Guide is a
step-by-step implementation manual that will
help you educate staff about patient safety
concepts, gather honest feedback from staff
about potential safety hazards, and make safety
a high priority.
The
December issue of Health Services
Research features the article "Revealing and
Resolving Patient Safety Defects: The Impact of
Leadership WalkRounds on Frontline Caregiver
Assessments of Patient Safety" by Allan Frankel,
MD. Click
here
to visit the HSR Web site.
For
more information on Leadership
WalkRoundsTM, visit http://www.hret.org/walkrounds.
To order the guide, click
here. |
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