About the 2011 Health Care Quality Summit

Over 650 people attended Saskatchewan’s first Health Care Quality Summit on April 20 & 21, 2011 in Regina!  We heard from experts from across North America and Quality Improvement leaders from across the province.

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  2011 Keynotes

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2011 Executive Roundtable – The Leader’s Journey: Leading to Achieve Engagement, Focus and Energy in Quality Improvement
Moderator: Dr. Kishore Visvanathan, Division Head for Urology in the Saskatoon Health Region, and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan.
Participants:  Dwight Nelson, President & CEO, Regina Qu’appelle Regional Health Authority (RHA), Cheryl Craig, CEO, Five Hills RHA, Dr. Michel Tétreault, President & CEO
St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba

  Workshops

  • Engaging Patients and Families in QI and Lean Transformation at St Boniface Hospital PDF
  • Right Patient, Right Service, Right Time - Defining Appropriateness PDF
  • Visions and Voices - Using Video to Tell Stories of FASD Video | Website
  • Lean and Quality Improvement 101 PDF
  • Patient, Client & Family Centred Care in Saskatoon Health Region PDF
  • Lean - What Does It Mean - Understanding the Eight Wastes and Their Implications on Healthcare and Architecture PDF
  • Hoshin Planning - A Tool for Executing Quality Strategies
  • Clinical Practice Redesign in the Real World: One Clinic's Experience
  • Developing a Learning and Improvement System in Saskatchewan PDF
  • IHI's Global Trigger Tool: A Reliable Metric of Patient Harm PDF
  • A3 Thinking: Managing and Communicating Quality Improvement Projects PDF

  Saskatchewan Stories

  • Using Pooled Referrals to Reduce Surgical Wait Times PDF
  • Maximizing Rural Surgical Capacity in Saskatchewan PDF
  • MRI Value Stream in Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region PDF
  • Implementing Lean in Long-Term Care – Shift Change Improvements PDF
  • Cost Cutting Without Care Impact – Inhaled Anesthetic Drug Substitutions PDF
  • Cost Cutting Without Care Impact – Do You Really Need That Test? PDF
  • The Crucial Ingredient is Learning
  • Quality as a Business Strategy – From Theory to Action PDF
  • Patient Safety Walk Rounds – Our Leadership Experience PDF
  • Can We Predict Admissions to Hospital? PDF
  • RQHR Patient Flow Value Stream
  • The Journey to Improved Access in Sun Country Health Region PDF
  • Culture of Caring: Saskatoon's Experience with Releasing Time to Care PDF
  • Team Spirit!  Clinical Practice Redesign and Advanced Access at Spiritwood's Primary Care Site PDF
  • Implementing Lean in Long Term Care – Improving INR Efficiency Using Lean PDF
  • Improving Access and Attendance Rates in Adult Addiction Services PDF
  • Building a Culture of Change Management and Quality Improvement at the Frontline
  • Releasing Time to Care – Is it Worth Your Time? PDF
  • Rural Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program – Saskatchewan's First PDF
  • Implementation of Population-based Colorectal Screening PDF
  • Thriving Youth, Thriving Communities PDF
  • Getting Started with Medication Reconciliation at Admission PDF
  • Long-Term Care Falls Prevention and Reduction Initiative PDF
  • Surgical Site Infection Prevention, Surveillance and Reporting PDF
  • Patients and Families First: Innovation and Collaboration for Quality Health Care PDF
  • Client and Family Centred Care – Our Journey
  • Improving Depression Care in Rural Saskatchewan PDF
  • Reducing Cancer Patient Wait Times: Successful Lean Implementation at the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency PDF
  • Implementing Sustainable Success in Advance Clinical Access PDF
  • Increased Use of Mental Health Clinic Appointments to Improved Access PDF
  • Incident Reporting and Follow Up Using Guided Root Cause Analysis PDF
  • Saskatoon Home Care Medication Reconciliation PDF
  • Prairie North Health Region Leans in the Right Direction PDF

  Poster and Table Top Presentations

  • Treading Lightly During the Ongoing Managing Quality Study in the Saskatoon Health Region
  • Sunrise Health Region's Plagiocephaly Prevention Initiative
  • The Saskatchewan Research to Action Project: Optimizing Patient, Nurse and Organizational Outcomes Utilizing Formal Nurse Patient Ratios
  • Disclosure of Medical Errors:  Improving Quality in Health Care Through Accountability
    Falls Prevention Program in Long-Term Care
  • We're Engaged!  Prairie North Health Region's Staff and Releasing Time to CareTM
  • Patient Safety and Adverse Event Reporting
  • Welcome Package for Individuals Moving to Long Term Care Communities
  • I Care, Therefore I Am Going to Tell You a Safety Story: Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections
  • Building Interprofessional Competencies: The Experience of the Rural West Primary Health Care Team
  • Improving Efficiencies in the Nipawin Laboratory
  • A Dashboard for the Joint Office of Health Research and Innovation, University of Saskatchewan and Saskatoon Health Region
  • Increasing Preschool Immunization Rates in Low Socio-Economic Neighbourhoods in Regina
  • MotherFirst – Saskatchewan's Maternal Mental Health Strategy
  • Sun Country Health Region Early Detection Chronic Kidney Disease Program
  • Partnering with Patients and Families in Critical Care
  • On-line Pay Statements: Going Green and Lean
  • Improving Childhood Immunization Rates and Practices
    Understanding and Applying The Health Information Protection Act (HIPA)
  • Quality Workplace Quality Healthcare Collaborative
  • High Quality RN Practice: Saskatchewan Nurse Leaders' Perspectives Brief Summary
  • Pursuing Patient Safety and Having Fun with the Required Organizational Practices!
  • Infection Control Risk Assessment
  • Quality Insight: An Essential Resource for Improving Quality
  • Implementing Lean in Long Term Care: Nurse Medication Round Time Reduction

 

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