WHCRMS

MEETING ARCHIVES

Healthcare-Associated Infections: Applying Patient Safety Solutions to Emerging Liability Challenges
May 11, 2010
Dahlia Liao

Virginia Masin's RM invites heatlhcare RMs, IPs, and other healthcare representatives to this half day conference sponsored by Lexington, the NPSF and Virginia Masin and featuring an Overview of HAI as a Risk and Liability Issue --Russ Nassof; One Person’s Journey with HAI: Advocating for Safe Care --Victoria Nahum

ABOUT the SEMINAR FACULTY
Russell Nassof, Esq., is an attorney, author, expert witness, seminar presenter, and the Director of New Strategic Initiatives at TRC, a publicly traded environmental and engineering consulting firm. Mr. Nassof indicates that he's been the field of risk consulting for over 20 years working in industrial hygiene, microbial contamination, toxic tort risk management, insurance defense, and infection control; his work is in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

Victoria Nahum has appeared on CBS, CNN, and FOx, as a patient safety advocate. In 2006, after their family had personal experiences with HAIs, she and her husband Armando created the Safe Care Campaign to bring a sharper focus on infection prevention and to partner with health care systems, hospital administrations and frontline caregivers to remind, provoke, motivate and inspire all who work within the continuum of care on these issues. Victoria sits on the Joint Commission’s Patient and Family Safety Advisory, and is an “Associate” with the World Health Organization’s Patients for Patient Collaborative and the Safety Programme. She Co-Chairs a collaborative project representing Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, convened by The American College of Chest Physicians.

Meeting: Slides
Seclusion and Restraint Rules
March 9, 2007
Kristin Miles
Assistant Attorney General, U of WA
Providence Health & Services

Meeting: Notes Slides
"Analog Records In A Digital Age -- Pitfalls for Discovery Involving Electronic Health Records"
January 12, 2007
Virginia Mason Benaroya Research Auditorium:
Laird A. Pisto
Associate General Counsel MultiCare Health

ASHRM will offer the Patient Safety Curriculum July 14-17, 2008, in Chicago.

2008 Annual ASHRM Conference & Exhibition
October 2-5, 2008 Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA

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
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