The Link between Quality and Survey Readiness: The Essential Building Blocks of a Great Quality Program (Part 2 of 2)

Date: April 13
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Central
Registration Fee: $195
Recording Download: Included in cost of registration. 
Register via fax/mail

  Please contact the THA Registrar at 512/465-1057 to register for this event as online registration is no longer available.

Overview

This program is the second session of a two-part Webinar series. If you would like information on how register for the entire series at a discount, please visit the series listing.

The average hospital currently invests 30 to 45 percent of its earned revenues in quality-oriented activities with most of that investment going into activities that don’t truly impact quality improvement.

In this session, we will discuss the essential components of a great quality program which incorporates practical implementation strategies. This session builds on Part I of this series, and introduces an approach that uses “quality calendars” to manage and monitor quality activities in a manner that makes it easy to get it right the first time.

This program shares samples and examples of a quality calendars system currently used by more than 100 small rural hospitals in 10 states.  It introduces principles related to the creation of more effective quality programs that reduce waste and increase control over the patient care environment.

Learning Objectives

• Explain three key considerations in effectively managing quality;
• Identify two ways to more effectively manage quality to minimize the risk of error; and
• Evaluate the quality calendar system approach to managing activities. 
  

Target Audience

• Chief Nursing Officers
• Chief Compliance Officers
• Nursing Directors/Managers
• Staff Nurses
• Department Heads
• Quality and Risk Management Directors
• Compliance and Joint Commission Directors
• Staff Development Directors
• Education Directors
• Infection Control Directors

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Speakers

Darlene D. Bainbridge, RN, CPHQ, CPHRM, D.D., is an experienced health care professional with 27 years dedicated to working with rural and small to mid-sized health care organizations. Her experience includes rural health care delivery, health care administration, network development, risk management and quality improvement, coupled with a clinical background. For the past eight years, Bainbridge has been involved with the Critical Access Hospital program. Working with this new federal initiative, she served as chief executive officer for a small rural hospital where she and her team restructured the hospital and avoided inevitable closure.

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Continuing Education

ACHE Category II (non-ACHE):   1.5 hours (each session); up to 3.0 hours (series)

Continuing Nursing Education:  1.5 contact hours (each session); up to 3.0 contact hours (series)

Social Work:  1.5 credit hours (each session); up to 3.0 credit hours (series)

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Date: April 13
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Central
Registration Fee: $195
Recording Download: Included in cost of registration. 
Register via fax/mail

 

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