News and Upcoming Events

• Congratulations to Carla Dyer, MD and Myra Aud, PhD for receiving a grant from the IHI Open School and Macy Foundation. Their grant application, entitled The Integrated Interprofessional Patient Safety (TIIPS) Curriculum, will put medical students and nursing students together at their patients' bedside learning about patient safety and quality improvement, with a focus on fall assessment and prevention.
   
• August 28, 2009: First session of Fall 2009 Performance Improvement Leadership Development Program (PI-LDP)
   
• August 2009: Launch of the Performance Improvement Initiative Inventory
   
• September 16, 2009: Launch of second team for the Lean Training Initiative
   

Spotlighted Program: Performance Improvement Leadership Development Program (PI-LDP)

The fourth cohort of PI-LDP began August 28, 2009 with guest lecturer Dr. Eugene Nelson. Dr. Nelson is Director of Quality Administration for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Professor, Healthcare Improvement Leadership Development within The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School. He is a national leader in health care improvement and the development and application of measures of system performance, health outcomes, and customer satisfaction. Dr. Nelson has been a pioneer in bringing modern quality improvement thinking into the mainstream of health care. He helped launch the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and served as a founding board member.