2016 Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) offerings for ClinicNET affiliates

Through a generous grant from Kaiser Permanente's Community Benefit Program, ClinicNET is pleased to be able to offer to contributing ClinicNET Affiliates access to Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) registration scholarships and travel support funding! Upcoming 2016 in-person and web-based training opportunities:

Web-based Trainings:  IHI Open School: offers online courses in quality improvement, patient safety, and leadership. Earn a Certificate of Completion or Continuing Education Credits. (1 year scholarships available!)

---Leading Quality Improvement: Essentials for Managers - Begins June 14, 2016 
---Expedition: Behavioral Health Integration – Beyond the Basics - Begins August 17, 2016 

In-person Trainings & Conferences:
--Transforming the Primary Care Practice - June 13-15, 2016 - San Diego, CA
---28th National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care - December 4-7, 2016 - Orlando, FL

Interested in participating in a training or conference? Click here to complete an online application! Contact Brooke Powers at brooke.powers@clinicnet.org or 720-863-7803 with any questions. [Source:IHI]

Patient- and Family-Centered Care Organizational Self-Assessment Tool

"This self-assessment tool from Institute for Healthcare Improvement (in collaboration with the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality and the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care) allows organizations to understand the range and breadth of elements of patient- and family-centered care and to assess where they are against the leading edge of practice. Use this self-assessment tool to assess how your organization is performing in relation to specific components of patient- and family-centered care, or as a basis for conversations about patient-centeredness in the organization." [Source: CCI Voice] 

IHI Open School is available with special affiliate scholarships PLUS upcoming IHI Conferences!

Through a generous grant from Kaiser Permanente's Community BenefitProgram, ClinicNET is pleased to be able to once again offer access to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) offerings. This program, offers ClinicNET affiliates access to conference registration scholarships and travel support funding to participate in IHI activities.  This includes access to the IHI Open School.

The IHI Open School is an inter-professional on-line community for students, faculty, and professionals from all health disciplines that strives to advance and build skill in patient safety and quality improvement through education.  Students of the Open School are taking advantage of the school's virtual training and course work in quality improvement and patient safety. Although no prerequisites are required, individuals will participate in a rigorous, structured, web-based learning environment.  Click the following hyperlink text to view a flyer about the IHI Open School and course summaries.

ClinicNET affiliates will need to contact Program Manager Brooke Powers in order to receive the unique IHI Endowment scholarship code for completing the enrollment process.  Click here for further instructions once you have received the code.

Additionally, there are two upcoming IHI conferences that you may receive assistance to attend as a ClinicNET affiliate. Please contact us if you are interested.

• Improvement Skills for Tomorrow’s Health Care: The Experts’ Perspective: April 30-May 1, 2013, Cambridge, MA 
• Transforming Primary Care Practice: June 18-20, 2013, Denver, CO

Teleconference: Strategies to Help a Smoker who is Struggling to Quit

Nov. 14, 2 - 3 p.m. ET, Strategies to Help a Smoker who is Struggling to Quit, an Author in the Room® Teleconference presented by JAMA and IHI. Free, registration required.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Community Benefit Program

Through a generous grant from Kaiser Permanente, ClinicNET is pleased to offer the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Community Benefit Program. This program, offers contributing affiliate clinic leaders conference registration scholarships and travel support funding to participate in IHI courses.

IHI is an independent nonprofit organization that works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action. IHI offers conferences and courses throughout the year.  For a list of IHI offerings available for support funding click here.

Click here for the more information about this scholarship opportunity.

Kaiser Permanente Community Benefits Program Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Through a generous grant from Kaiser Permanente, ClinicNET is pleased to be able to offer contributing affiliate clinic leaders access to conference scholarships and travel support funding to attend the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) 24th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare, December 9-12, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. IHI is an independent nonprofit organization that works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action.  Click here to learn more about this exciting opportunity!

Webinar: Using Data for Evidence-Based Quality Improvement

Health Resources and Services Administration - Health Information Technology and Quality Webinar:  “Using Data for Evidence-Based Quality Improvement”
Friday, July 27, 2012 -- 12:00 pm MTN

The webinar will feature presenters including a quality improvement specialist from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement who will focus broadly on quality improvement.  The other two presenters, HRSA grantees from rural and health center settings, will provide useful tips on obtaining data from EHRs, as well as using this information to drive quality improvement and implement practice changes.  Click here to register.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Community Benefit Program

Through a generous grant from Kaiser Permanente, ClinicNET is pleased to offer the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Community Benefit Program. This program, offers contributing affiliate clinic leaders conference registration scholarships and travel support funding to participate in IHI courses.

IHI is an independent nonprofit organization that works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action. IHI offers conferences and courses throughout the year.  For a list of IHI offerings available for support funding click here.

Click here for the more information about this scholarship opportunity.

IHI National Forum Funding Available

Kaiser Permanente has generously awarded a grant to ClinicNET, allowing us to offer funding to help safety net clinic leaders travel to and attend the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) conferences and seminars, including their National Forum in December. IHI is world-renowned for their work to improve healthcare and patient safety, and helps accelerate improvement by cultivating concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care facilities put those ideas into action. For more contact Brooke at brooke.powers@clinicnet.org.

IHI New Models for Patients with Multiple Health and Social Needs

WIHI is an exciting "talk show" program from Institute for Healthcare Improvement, connecting you to the cutting edge of health care improvement. It’s free, it’s timely, and it’s designed to help dedicated legions of health care improvers worldwide keep up with some of the freshest and most robust thinking and strategies for improving patient care. A 60-minute program is offered live every other week, or you can listen to recordings of the broadcast later at your convenience. WIHI is your opportunity to meet up with colleagues who want to improve patient care and shape a true health reform agenda.
New Models for Patients with Multiple Health and Social Needs
June 23, 2011, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time

To enroll, please go to IHI's webpage:  www.ihi.org

Guests:

• Catherine Craig, LMSW, MPA, Director of Health Integration – National Programs, Common Ground
• Maria Raven, MD, MPH, MSc, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
• Geraint Lewis, MA, MSc, FRCP, FFPH, Public Health Physician and Senior Fellow, The Nuffield Trust, UK

There isn’t a health care provider anywhere in the US who hasn’t witnessed the disconnect between a patient with multiple health and social needs and the systems available to help that individual. The gap between what’s needed and what’s available (and what’s paid for) is often staggering. Stories abound of doctors and nurses and social workers painstakingly trying to patch together services that might function as an alternative to the hospital’s emergency department, get a prescription filled, get someone a hot meal… and on it goes. There are communities in the US and other countries that have worked for years to do things better but, wherever you go, patients with multiple illnesses combined with a lot of instability in their lives present challenges far beyond the capability and current design of most health care systems.

Nothing like a challenge! WIHI has been tracking some timely work and research that goes by such exotic names as “predictive modeling” and “virtual wards” – or is as basic as care coordination and supportive housing – and key experts leading the way in these areas will be guests on the June 23 WIHI. Catherine Craig, Maria Raven, and Geraint Lewis are all at the sharp end of identifying new ways to work with patients to address underlying needs and manage chronic health problems that lessen dependence on expensive health care services.  The good news is that wherever new models are being tried, they’re making a real, tangible difference.

To get ready for the June 23 WIHI, we invite you to read a brand new IHI white paper on innovations in care coordination, co-authored by Catherine Craig. You might also want to read (or reread) Atul Gawande’s article, “The Hot Spotters," from the January 2011 New Yorker. Some of you may recall that Dr. Gawande was on the hunt for solutions. That’s what we’ll be discussing on this next WIHI. Please join us!