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Get With The Guidelines Heart Failure Program
American Heart Association
Tiffany D. McGhee RN, MS, MPH - Director of Quality Improvement
The purpose of the session is to provide hospitals with an overview of the American Heart Association’s award winning Get With The Guidelines Heart Failure program. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how this evidence-based program for in-hospital quality improvement helps clinicians deliver and track care that is consistent with the most up-to-date scientific guidelines.
Strategic Planning Session
Cindy Wise, VP Business Development - Quorum Health Resources, LLC
This presentation will focus on the necessity of keeping strategic planning sessions dynamic based on metrics and measurements. She'll suggest sources of information and topics of consideration when planning a strategic planning retreat.
Hospital Pediatric Emergency Care Readiness (Children's Project)
Virginia Office of EMS, Division of Trauma/Critical Care, EMS for Children (EMSC) Program
David P. Edwards, MBA, Virginia EMSC Coordinator
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On-going informal assessment of current pediatric emergency capability of hospitals is now in progress. OEMS is working to categorize of all Virginia hospitals as to pediatric emergency capability, and developing a voluntary hospital recognition program. Hospitals which choose to participate in OEMS site visits can qualify for Free portable Pediatric Broselow™ Emergency System (worth $1900), free technical support, pediatric transfer guidelines and agreement templates, potential grant-funded support to facilitate readiness, and VDH recognition when appropriate readiness level achieved.
Do Rural Health Networks Make A Difference?
Pat Schou,
Executive Director -
Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network
This session will focus on the advantages and challenges of rural hospital type networks. Ms. Schou will share her experience setting up the Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN) and discuss the programs and services the network now provides its 51 critical access hospital members. She will also discuss the different types of networks today, how to establish a network, accounting systems to use, member communication tools, identifying network programs and activities, use of user groups and round tables to connect hospital members, the need for sustainability, creating partnerships with other organizations and the benefits of a rural network voice. There will be ample opportunity for questions and brainstorming on how to “get started”.
Networking Dinner
sponsored by Quorum Health Resources, LLC
Darlene Bainbridge
The average hospital currently spends approximately forty-five cents of every dollar earned on administrative activities. At least half of this expenditure is driven by quality-related activities and a rapidly growing category of indirect costs associated with soft quality – all those costs that would go away if health care was in control of its environment and just got it right the first time. Those hospitals that continue to rely on the soft quality practices of the past could easily find these costs breaking fifty percent. Many have the potential to become casualties along the highway to health care’s future as the industry moves deeper into an Era of Intolerance from the public, regulators and purchasers of health care.
This session is directed at leaders who must make the choice as to the future direction for their organizations and the quality directors who will play an integral role in the creation of a more business-wise approach to quality. Participants will understand ways in which improved quality can yield improved bottom lines and retention of market share, while at the same time implementing a quality improvement program with limited resources.
The speaker will also introduce the multi-state rural quality improvement project in which Critical Access Hospitals in Virginia and seven other states are currently participating, and in which small hospitals in Virginia with average daily censuses under 50 beds will be invited to join.
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