8th Annual Forum for Improving Children’s Healthcare
Presenters and planners listed below have not indicated any financial interests or other relationships to disclose unless their name is marked with a *D. Presenters and planners marked with a *D have financial interests or other relationships to disclose
Workshops
With a three day conference pass, you can take advantage of as many of the following workshops as you wish:
Future or Futuristic? The Rapidly Advancing World of Healthcare Technology
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
Joseph Ray, Managing Director, Manatt Health Solutions (Bio)
This session is intended to temporarily transport us into a reality where healthcare data is streaming through various types of technologies and across multiple networks that hold knowledge about our genetic make-up, making health care provision more of a real-time, up-to-the-minute informed activity for optimal clinical decision-making. EHRs may be the current proxy for this direction, but what does the future hold? Clinic leaders can understand that future, however far off it may be, and begin to plan for it, step-by-step, in every technology and operational decision being made.
Moving to Zero Harm: Possibility or Myth?
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. (Presenter Bios)
Peter Lachman, Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and The Royal Free Hospital Hampstead NHS Trust
Karen Dunn, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, Emergency Fellow, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
Mary Anne Hilliard, Chief Risk Council, Children's National Medical Center
Anne Matlow MD (*D), Medical Director, Hospital for Sick Children
Stephen Muething, Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati and CIncinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Tom Peterson, MD, FAAP, Medical Director, Helen Devos Children's Hospital
Polly Stevens, Director of Quality and Risk Management, Hospital for Sick Children
(*D) Established contract with Virox Technologiess inc with Grant Funding, Biotech+ as a Consultant and Baxter as part of their Speakers Bureau
Children are one of the high‐risk groups in the field of patient safety. Emerging research has indicated that the needs of children differ and that an alternative child and family-focused approach is required. This session will bring together the leaders in the field of pediatric patient safety and will present the latest findings in this new field from both a research and an implementation perspective. Participants will be introduced to specific safety needs of children and will learn about the top ten safety issues for children, be given practical ways to introduce changes in their clinical and management practices to decrease harm, while having the opportunity to bring real life issues for discussion.
Using Policy Change to Reverse the Obesity Epidemic
Tuesday, March 10, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Lisa Simpson MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP, Director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati (Bio)
Eduardo J Sanchez MD, MPH, (*D), VP and CMO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (Bio)
Joseph Thompson, MD, MPH, Arkansas Surgeon General (Bio)
(*D) Established contract with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas as an employee
This half day session will showcase the latest policy strategies being used by state and local governments to address the childhood obesity epidemic. During the workshop, participants will examine a range of interventions including approaches through schools, partnerships with employers, health plans and legislative innovations.
Quality Improvement Fundamentals: An Introduction to Jump-Start Curriculum
For an additional supplement provided by the speakers, you can find it here
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Lloyd Provost MS (*D), Improvement Advisor, Associates in Process Improvement (Bio)
Esther F. Myers, PhD, RD, (*D), Impovement Advisor (Bio)
(*D) Lloyd Provost has established contract with Associate in Process Improvement as the author of The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance
Esther F. Myers has established a contract with the American Dietic Association Foundation and NICHQ as a contractor
This full day session will focus on the Model for Improvement and is designed as a beginning or refresher course on methodology. Participants will learn how to implement the Model for Improvement in their own organizations through interactive activities and examples. Participants will be able to create a program, design an effective aim statement and develop defined measures for an improvement project.
Advanced Quality Improvement: Using Mindfulness and High Reliability to Deliver Care
For an additional supplement provided by the speakers, you can find it here
Tuesday, March 10, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Paul Kurtin MD, Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, CA (Bio)
Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA, Associate Professor and Director, The Child Adolescent Health Measurement Inititative (Bio)
This half day session will focus on an application of the works of Adam Kahane, Karl Weick, Paul Batalden and other quality improvement experts. Participants will share and discuss new ways to run improvement collaboratives and address ways in which healthcare organizations/microsystems need to think and behave, while understanding the difference between mindlessness and mindfulness in a healthcare setting.
Ten Interventions to Healthier Babies: Reducing Morbidity and Mortality from Pre-Term Birth
For additional supplements or presentations by other speakers, you can find them here, here and here
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m.
Charles E. Mercier MD (*D), Associate Professor of Pediatrics College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Attending Neonatologist Vermont Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care; (Bio)
Pat Heinrich RN, MSN, Executive Program Director, NICHQ; (Bio)
Sue Leavitt Gullo RN, MS IHI Managing Director, IHI Perinatal Impact Community; (Bio)
Jennifer Ustianov RN, BSN, IBCLC, Director, Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP), University of Vermont Department of Pediatrics; (Bio)
Ed Donavan, MD, Medical Director, Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative: (Bio)
Ronda Christopher, Facilitator and Public Speaker, Crucial Conversations and Change Management (Bio)
David D. Wirtschafter, MD (*D), Consultant, California Children's Services (CCS)-California Children's Hospital Association (CCHA) Neonatal Infection Prevention Project 2008 in Association with CPQCC; (Bio)
Carole Lannon, Co-director, Center for Health Care Quality (Bio)
Christy Blakely, Family Voices, Colorado (Bio)
Virgina Crowe, (*D), Parent Chair
Tara Bristol O'Hearn, Parent Chair (Bio)
*D Charles Mercier established contract with NICHQ working on the Medical Chair Neonatal Outcomes Project, with VCHIP as the Principle Investigator for the Vermont Perinatal Health Project and with the Vermont Oxford Network as a Presenter
David D. Wirtschafter established contract with California Children's Hospital Association and S. CA. Permenente Medical Group as a Consultant
Virgina Crowe established contract with NICHQ as an IA on the NOIP Project
This session will highlight the strong evidence of the impact of prematurity on neonatal morbidity and infant mortality. After this session, participants will be able to identify 10 evidence based perinatal health care interventions that can significantly reduce the burden of mortality and morbidity associated with premature birth. Participants will also learn how to plan a perinatal health care improvement project in their own environment while learning about the exciting work of multiple national and regional perinatal improvement projects, including the NICHQ Neonatal Outcomes Improvement Project currently underway in four states. This project highlights the need to build a multi state infrastructure of state partners that promote quality improvement.
Medical Home Part One: Policy Implications Imagined and Resolved
For additional supplements provided by Ross Owens and Carolyn Allshouse, you can find them here and here
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00-12:00 p.m.
Richard C. Antonelli, MD, MS, Medical Director, Children's Hospital Integrated Care Organization (CHICO) Associate/Interim Medical Director Physicians' Organization Children's Hospital Boston (Bio)
Ross Owen, MPA, Team Lead, MW, Department of Human Services (Bio)
Jeffrey S. Schiff, MD, M.B.A., Medical Director, Minnesota Health Care Programs (Bio)
Carolyn Allshouse, Senior Planner, Minnesota Department of Health (Bio)
This full day session will be divided into two individual but related half day sessions addressing both the policy development and practical application components of a medical home for all pediatric patients. Participants in part one will learn about the policy issues surrounding the advancement of medical home, spanning the areas of financial support andmechanisms for technical support. Participants will shareand discuss new ideas for the advancement of medical home.
Medical Home Part Two: Tools, Plans and Design
Tuesday, March 10, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Renee M. Turchi MD, MPH, Director PA Medical Home Program (EPIC IC) Clinical Director, Special Programs St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Assistant Professor, Drexel University School of Public Health (Bio)
Molly Gatto, Associate Program Director EPIC IC Medical Home Program (Bio)
Monica Konrad, RN, Senior Care Coordinator (Bio)
Bonnie Zehr, MD, Pediatrician, Roseville Pediatrics (Bio)
Vicki Rote, Care Coordinator, Roseville Pediatrics (Bio)
Jennifer Ripepi, MD, Pediatrician (Bio)
Mary Kay Transue (Bio)
This full day session will be divided into two individual but related half day sessions addressing both the policy development and practical application components of a medical home for all pediatric patients. Part two will give each participant an overview of the EPIC IC PA Medical Home program,highlighting tools for implementation, working with parent leaders, and various practice models successfully integrating medical home into their practices. Participants will learn how to implement these partnerships and practices into their own organizations.
