MEETING ARCHIVES

Speaker: Lisa Smego
Property & Casualty Manager at the Office of the Insurance Commissioner
"New Closed Claim Reporting Requirements"
April 11, 2008
Documents for dail-in participants:

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON MRSA
By: Marcia Patrick, RN, MSN, CIC
January 18, 2008
Notes in .pdf format

WHCRMS Annual Conference
May 18, 2007 - Eruption in the ER
(On the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens)
Washington Athletic Club (WAC)
1325 Sixth Avenue Seattle, WA
Registration Form

21st Annual WHCRMS
Risk Management Seminar
May 13th, 2005

CE Credits

  • 7 Washington State Insurance Credits
  • 6 Washington State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Credits
  • 7.8 ASHRM Continuing Education Credits

The featured speaker Was John Nance:

John Nance is an internationally recognized air safety analyst and advocate who has logged countless appearances on national television shows, including his work as Aviation Analyst for ABC World News and aviation Editor for Good Morning America. He is the nationally-known author of 17 major books: five non-fiction plus 12 fiction bestsellers. Mr. Nance is one of America’s most dynamic professional speakers, presenting programs on many topics, including risk management, to a wide variety of audiences, including business corporations and healthcare professionals. He is a pace-setting and well-known international advocate of using lessons from the recent revolution in aviation safety to equally revolutionize the patient safety performance of hospitals, doctors, nurses, and all of healthcare. John is a founding board member of the National Patient Safety Foundation.

SPECIAL-Breakfast Briefing Audio Conference Series
October 3, 17, 24, 31, 2005
This popular series of four audio conferences gives hospitals a cost-effective way to acquire the latest information on Joint Commission standards. Each 60-minute audio conference will highlight a different standards chapter, addressing key changes and providing strategies for continuous compliance. Please visit our website for more information on this series!

October 12, 2005
11:30am-1:00pm CDT
$249 per connection
MAKING "PATIENT SAFETY LEADERSHIP WALKROUNDS" WORK
Speaker: Allan Frankel, MD, Director of Patient
Safety, Partners Healthcare, Needham, MA
Erin Graydon-Baker, Patient Safety Manager,
Center for Clinical Excellence, Brigham and
Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Patient Safety Leadership WalkRounds is a simple but rigorous process designed to assist hospital leaders in implementing mechanisms for promoting safety, hearing the concerns of front-line providers, supporting appropriate accountability concepts, and allocating resources to areas of greatest risk. Hear from expert speakers on how to set up and maintain a successful program in your own organization.

October 19, 2005
11:30-1:00pm CDT
$249 per connection
MANDATORY INFECTION CONTROL REPORTING: INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS AND ITS IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONS
Speakers: Kathleen Meehan Arias, and Tammy Lundstrom, MD
Currently there is no standardized method of collecting, comparing, and reporting hospital-associated infections. Join this presentation and learn about a long-term strategy to reduce health care-associated infections. We'll discuss the impact of reporting, the process for developing measures that provide meaningful information, how to avoid "analysis and paralysis" with infection control data, reporting challenges, and the impact on consumers and providers.

October 21, 2005
11:30-12:30pm CDT
$199 per connection
EC FIRESIDE CHAT WITH GEORGE MILLS: A QUARTERLY ENVIRONMENT OF CARE UPDATE
Speaker: George Mills, FASHE, CEM, CHFM,
Associate Director, Standards Interpretation
Group, JCAHO
EC activities are an integral part of the entire health care organization. Each quarter, George Mills provides a timely update of the most challenging issues in EC as well as providing advice related to organizations' questions and best practices. Join Mr. Mills in the discussion of the EC issues and standards compliance questions, review challenging EC standards, and get answers too organization-specific questions.

October 25, 2005
11:30am-1:00pm CDT
$249 per connection
CREDENTIALING AND PRIVILEGING FROM THE MEDICAL STAFF POINT OF VIEW
Speakers: Thomas Wallace, MD, JD, Joint
Commission Resources Consultant
Stephen T. House, MD, AMA Physician
Credentials review and privileging is a hot topic in health care and one that has proven to be challenging for many organizations. Join two experts as they discuss the process and roles of medical staff in each activity. The discussion will describe the physician's leadership role and responsibility in identifying key credentialing and privileging issues, the concept of competency assessment and clinical privileging, and the "good practices" that assist in achieving Joint Commission standards.

October 28, 2005
11:30am-1:00pm CDT
$249 per connection
Rapid Response Teams: GETTING STARTED AND STAYING FOCUSED
Speaker: Roberta Fruth, MS, PhD, RN, CNAA
Joint Commission Resources Consultant
Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) have been identified as strategy to improve patient outcomes and save lives. Join Roberta Fruth as she presents information to help you develop an implementation plan and measures of success. You'll learn to compare the clinical elements to the organizational elements impacting the initiation of a RRT, identify at least five measures that can be used to evaluate RRT performance, and describe two strategies relevant to your organization.

Joint Commission Resources
1515 West 22nd Street, Suite 1300W
Oak Brook, IL 60523

Attention Speakers from WHCRMS May 13 Seminar -- If you would like to post your slides on this website, send to the webmaster in PowerPoint or .pdf format.

WSAHQ May Educational Conference - 05/11/05
A Dash Through the Data
May 11, 2005
Tukwila Community Center

WMCMA Annual Spring Provider Resource Fair
Tools for the Trade: Bringing Together a Community of Quality Care Providers
May 12, 2005
Swedish Cultural Center

WDTL Defending Medical Claims and Allegations of Malpractice
Friday, May 20, 2005
Washington State Convention & Trade Center

Qualis Health's 2nd annual Transformational Strategies for Quality Improvement in Healthcare
May 23, 2005
Bell Harbor Conference Center
Seattle

Everyday Ethics in the Case Management World
By Bruce Spencer, LMHC, CCM
WMCMA Luncheon Meeting
June 9, 2005

WA Patient Safety Network meeting
Topic: TBD
Evergreen Healthcare in Kirkland.
Friday, June 17, 2005, 11:30-1:30

National Healthcare Risk Management Week
June 20-24, 2005

Infectious Substances Transportation Training (Multi-Modal)
August 10th
The College and University Hazardous Waste Conference
Downtown Marriott
Portland, OR

WEB CONFERENCE
Thursday, September 8th from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
100k Lives Campaign
Medication Reconciliation:
Understanding Regulations & Keys to Successful Implementation

JOINT COMMISSION RESOURCES SEPTEMBER AUDIO CONFERENCE
September 13, 2005 11:30am-1:00pm
Cost $249 per connection
HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN ENHANCE PATIENT SAFETY

JOINT COMMISSION RESOURCES SEPTEMBER AUDIO CONFERENCE
September 14, 2005 11:30am-1:00pm
Cost $249 per connection
OPTIMIZING PATIENT FLOW

JOINT COMMISSION RESOURCES SEPTEMBER AUDIO CONFERENCE
September 20, 2005 11:30am-1:00pm
CST $249 per connection
S-BAR COMMUNICATION: A LINK TO IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY

JOINT COMMISSION RESOURCES SEPTEMBER AUDIO CONFERENCE
September 21, 2005 11:30am-1:00pm CST $249 per connection
VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA: THE ICP ROLE IN IMPROVING BUNDLES

TELECONFERENCE.
Wednesday September 21st at 1:30 pm EDTThe Institute for
Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
Risk Reduction Strategies for Medication Errors in the Perioperative Setting

MEETING
Clinical Information Systems and Electronic Records and eHealth 2005
September 26 -- 28, 2005
London West Convention Centre
London, England

MEETING
"Deposition Dichotomy: When the Healthcare Provider Needs Help"
Friday Sept. 30 12-2 PM
Amy B. Hanegan. Trial Consultant with Better Witnesses, Inc.
Valley Medical Center, Medical Arts Center, Room A

MEETING
National Conference for Hospital-Based First Receivers
October 6-7, 2005
Preparing for Medical Management of Mass Casualty Incidents
Renaissance Washington DC Hotel
999 9th St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-898-9000
877-223-6866

CPHRM Prep Course
October 22 - 23, San Antonio, TX

ASHRM Annual Conference & Exhibition
October 23-26, San Antonio, TX

Disaster Planning in the ED-Are We Ready?
WHCRMS meeting
November 4, 2005
12PM-2PM
Valley Medical Center, Medical Arts Building,
Conference Room A.

State of Our Health - A Leadership Forum on Healthcare Quality
November 10, 2005
Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center
Seattle, WA.

ASHRM AUDIO PROGRAM
"Psychiatric Care Challenges in the Emergency Department"
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
1:00-2:30 p.m.

Joint Commission Resources December Audio Conferences

Avian Influenza: The Next Great Pandemic? – Are you & your facility prepared?

Domestic Call: December 8, 2005
10:00 – 11:30 am CST
Linda Chiarello, RN, MS – Consultant to Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA Russ Olmsted, MPH, CIC, Epidemiologist, Infection Control Services, Saint Joseph Mercy Health System; headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI

International Call: December 8, 2005

9:00 – 10:30 pm CST (1100 Greenwich Mean Time) Professor WH Seto, MD, MRCP, FRCPath - President, Asia-Pacific Society of Infection Control, Chief, Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

DNR, Futility and the Future after Schiavo
Jan. 31, 2006
Presented by DRI’s Medical Liability and Health Care Law Committee

Washington Health Foundation Quality Conference
February 2 and 3
Washington State Association for Healthcare Quality Annual Conference
Real Resources for Real Results
Lean, Six Sigma, Baldrige, PDSA, Rapid Cycling, Collaboration
Friday April 14, 2006
8:30 – 4:00
Tukwila Community Center
12424 42nd Ave. So.
Tukwila, WA 98168
5 CEU’s

WHCRMS Annual Conference
WA Athletic Club
May 5, 2006.

MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL RISK EXPOSURES
A Special Event for Risk Management, Facilities and Infection Control

The Latest Guidance and Advice for Infectious Disease Preparedness and Control
Presented by: Kahl & Associates

May 24, 2006
Portland, OR
8:30 AM --12:15 PM
Program Overview and Registration Information

May 25, 2006
Bellevue, WA
8:30 AM --12:15 PM
Program Overview and Registration Information

National Healthcare Risk Management Week
June 19-23, 2006 

HOSPITAL UPDATE
Joint Commission Resources'
This one-day, fast-paced program is designed for participants familiar with the survey process and standards, and for those who frequently work with accreditation issues. Content addresses the 2007 National Patient Safety Goals and key changes in the accreditation process, including the new electronic SOC, emergency management drills, and new standards in the HR and MS chapters of the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals.

October 11, 2006, Columbia, Missouri
November 2, 2006, Valley Forge, PA

AIG Healthcare 2007 10th Annual Seminar
"Transparency and Medical Errors:  From Concept to Implementation"
May 30, 2007
Fairmont Olympic Hotel
Seattle, WA

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