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Article Date: 09/01/2007

The Joint Commission Annual Conference set for November 12-14 in Chicago
Health care organizations across the country are faced with the challenge of staying competitive while continuously improving all aspects of their organizations. Meeting these challenges and moving from good to greatness is the focus of The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources’ 21st Annual Conference on Quality and Safety. This year’s annual conference, “Organizational Greatness: Actions for Health Care Excellence,” set for November 12-14 at the Hilton Chicago, will highlight strategies to help leadership instill in practitioners a passion for patient safety and quality that extends system wide, and take the steps necessary to get there. An important change to this year’s event is the addition of two simultaneous tracks— one on quality and the other on safety. The quality track concentrates on the measurement and continuous improvement aspects of organizational greatness. The safety track explores evidence-based practice and implementation methodologies that have helped health care providers achieve a culture of patient safety.

Two optional pre-conference workshops will be offered on the morning of November 12. The first workshop will provide an overview of The Joint Commission’s Annual Quality Report and interpretation of the 2006 findings. The report details how America’s hospitals are performing against evidence-based measures. The second workshop will examine The Joint Commission’s 2008 National Patient Safety Goals and related Requirements. The focus of this session will be on current expectations in meeting these Requirements and the major challenges that health care organizations face in overcoming identified barriers to success. Strategies for implementing both the current and the 2008 Goals and Requirements will be presented. To register, call the Joint Commission’s Customer Service Center at 1 (877) 223-6866 or visit http://www.jcrinc.com/.

Website Address: http://www.jointcommission.org

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