DiagnosticsJCR And The Joint Commission To Host 23rd Annual Conference
Health care leaders focused on changing their organization"s approach to patient safety and quality will have an opportunity to learn from their peers at The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Res" "2009 Annual Conference on Quality and Patient Safety: Explore, Enhance, and Energize - Leadership for the Future." The conference, September 14 to 16, in Rosemont, Ill., is supported by the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and the American College of Physicians. Joint Commission Res (JCR) is a not-for-profit affiliate of The Joint Commission.
For the first time, the conference will feature four simultaneous education tracks led by presenters who have first-hand experience with the issues they are discussing. The presenters were chosen based upon their abstract submissions. The education tracks are: Leadership, Patient/Family Centered Care, Quality/Patient Safety, and Process Improvement.
This conference is oriented towards patient safety officers, hospital administrators, quality improvement professionals and board leaders. At the conference, attendees will receive take-home tools including many of the forms, flow-charts, reading lists and other res needed to launch a quality improvement project.
This year"s keynote speaker is Robert M. Wachter, M.D., professor and associate chairman, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Wachter will speak about the efforts to prevent medical mistakes and what is working and not working a decade after the Institute of Medicine"s report on medical error - "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System."
Attendees will also have the opportunity to hear from Mark R. Chassin, M.D., M.P.P., M.P.H., president, The Joint Commission, and Ann Scott Blouin, Ph.D., R.N., executive vice president, Division of Accreditation and Certification Operations, The Joint Commission.
Jeffrey C. Bauer, Ph.D., partner, Management Consulting - Future Practice, ACS Healthcare Solutions, a medical economist and health futurist, will provide a multi-faceted overview of technology and explore how each type of technology can be optimally used to produce desired levels of improvement in health care. Bauer will also present specific guidelines for ensuring quality in an efficient and effective manner, and will introduce policy prescriptions for successful reform of health care delivery systems that are consistent with national goals.
The conference will be held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Ill. This year"s conference will also offer for the first time an exhibit hall for networking and further educational opportunities. Accommodations will be at the Hyatt Regency O"Hare. Continuing education credit hours are offered.
The conference is $995 per person or $849 for registration 30 days prior to the conference. A discounted rate of $829 per person is offered for teams of three or more. To register, please call JCR Customer Service at 1.877.223.6866. The registration code is 09065. Additional details and a conference agenda also are available online here.
The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Res (JCR)