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The Tom Closson Blog: Lessons for Transforming the Canadian Health Care System  
In Tom's latest blog, he speaks about a research report put together by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation entitled Assessing Initiatives to Transform Healthcare Systems: Lessons for the Canadian Healthcare System.

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Health Care Governance Forum

The OHA's Governance Centre of Excellence is pleased to present the Fall Health Care Governance Forum taking place on September 23 and 24, 2011, featuring a keynote presentation, Shifting Gears-Health: Paths to Fiscal Sustainability in Canada by Will Falk, Executive Fellow in Residence, Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, Adjunct Professor, Rotman School of Management. The forum will also officially launch the OHA’s new Guide to Good Governance.
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Improving the Emergency Department Patient Experience within Your Hospital

The OHA will be hosting Improving the Emergency Department Patient Experience within Your Hospital. This one-day workshop will highlight local leading practices and provide hospitals with the opportunity to review their ED patient experience data and set additional priorities. It will also provide an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning and networking.

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Maternal and Newborn Care  

This year’s conference will focus on the theme of evidence to inform decision making, at the clinical, institutional and health system planning level. Health care practitioners are ensuring that high-quality evidence is informing high-quality practice. Each session will explore the use of data, information and knowledge in clinical practice, system administration and system change. Highlights of this session include; the issue of repeat elective C/S for low risk women less than 39 weeks gestation; strategies used to target the variability in rates across the region; and lessons learned.
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Optimizing Clinical Supply Chain through Collaboration and Process Efficiencies  

Developed by the OHA in collaboration with the BPS Supply Chain Secretariat of the Ministry of Finance and the Operating Room Supply Chain Program Working Group, the latest Guide, Optimizing Perioperative Supply Chains: A Guide for Improvement Projects, will be launched at our upcoming conference. The Guide is designed to help hospitals save time, reduce product errors and implement experience-based improvements to operating room and clinical service supply chain processes.

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Health Care Leadership Summit

Mounting budgetary issues. New legislation. A provincial general election. This is a year of great change for Ontario health care policy. For health care CEOs and senior leadership teams, there are many questions to answer – but the crucial one is this: what role will we play in shaping the inevitable forces of change? This September 7 - 9, join the OHA in Huntsville – with many of health care’s most respected voices – to delve into the opportunities and risks.

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HealthAchieve Program Highlights Now Available  

The Program Highlights for HealthAchieve 2011 is now available online. Download your copy today to see what awaits you at this year’s event! Join North America’s best and brightest health care leaders, educators and keynote speakers for three great days of inspiring ideas and innovation. HealthAchieve is again your one-of-a-kind opportunity to Engage, Recharge, Focus, Network and Expand.
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Critical Incident Reporting: Partnering for Shared Learning

The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has issued a directive that as of October 1, 2011, all Ontario hospitals will be required to report all critical incidents related to medication / IV fluid through the National System for Incident Reporting. Reporting is to be done within 30 days following the disclosure of the critical incident, to either the Medical Advisory Committee, the administrator and/or patient. This conference is designed to assist hospitals in meeting the new requirements.

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Health Care Financial Management  

Health Care Financial Managers are challenged with balancing budgets, in a period of fast moving legislative and regulatory change, a provincial election, and mounting expectations from Ontarians to perform better, to be more accountable and transparent in a time of resource constraint. This year’s annual Health Care Financial Management Conference will provide participants with insight on improving business performance in a new culture of access.
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2012 Continuing Education Catalogue Available Now!
 The OHA's continuing education programs offer tools to help health care professionals respond more effectively and immediately to the challenges facing a rapidly changing health care system.

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