CSSI conference CareOregon’s quality improvement network, annual conference continue to grow |
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With 274 attendees, the annual conference of CareOregon’s Care Support and System Innovation program, February 11 in Portland, experienced its largest single-year growth in its five-year history. And the projects presented at the conference also have increased success rates. “The projects demonstrated greater success than in previous years,” said Diana Wolford, CSSI program manager. The conference celebrates and shares results of quality and access improvement projects conducted by CareOregon network providers, clinics and hospitals through the CSSI program, which provides funding and quality improvement training. In previous years, the conference has been held in the fall. This year, the conference was pushed back until February, which gave project teams a longer time period in which to gather data and observe results. “The extra time did help,” Diana says. “Seventy-five percent of the teams had a complete year to work on their projects. But also, I would attribute some of the success to the increased training and support provided to the teams by CareOregon throughout the year. We strengthened our relationship with the project teams.” In addition to the project teams presentations, the conference highlights included addresses by three keynote speakers who addressed changes at the clinic and hospital level and economic trends and their effect on the need for health care transformation. Applications due soon Applications for the next round of CSSI projects are due April 16. The clinic applications are on the CareOregon CSSI web site and the hospital guidelines will be posted soon.
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CSSI speakers address innovation in a changing health care culture Remarks by the principal speakers at the 2010 CSSI annual conference are available on video:  Dave Ford, president and CEO of CareOregon, spoke on The Emerging Future of Healthcare: the current economic situation and the new realities it imposes on health care. “To meet our mission, we must depart from our historic pathways,” he said. “This time requires transformation.”  Charles (“Chuck”) Mantooth, president and CEO of Cannon Memorial Hospital, Linville, NC, spoke about the experience at that hospital in “Creating a Culture of Innovation through Lean Leadership.” “We had to move our culture to a different place in order to meet the difficult changes that were coming our way,” he said.  Angela Kalisiak, MD, spoke on Northwest Cancer Specialists’ CSSI project to dramatically increase the number of patients—and staff—who have advance directives up to date and on file. “We wanted this very much to be a patient-centered process,” she said. “We tried to make it apparent that this is important for every adult.” |
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