Scroll down to read these articles in this Issue: - Countdown Begins: Just One Month Until Our Big Conference!
- Thank You Conference Sponsors! Shouldn't Your Name be Here Too?
- Social Need and Health Equity Summit 2024
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Countdown Begins: Just One Month Until Our Big Conference! |
This year’s conference faculty is finalized. Going along with the theme of “Safe Patient Care: It Takes All of Us” we have a great line up of presentations that focus on focus on what patients and providers can do together to improve safety, quality, and outcomes. We will cover best practices for acute and long-term care from the U.S. and Canada. If you feel there is nothing new to hear or do about patient safety, you’ll want to attend. Please check out the conference website for speaker and presentation descriptions. CE’s will be available as well as nursing contact hours. Registration is open discounts are available for CPHQ, CPPS, CPHRM, and BCPA professional certifications.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: - Patient safety practitioners, risk managers, quality leaders, and healthcare executives.
- Clinical program leaders and frontline clinicians from across the spectrum of care.
- Claims representatives and insurance professionals.
- Patient advocates and patient experience officers, patient and family advisory council members.
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Graduate and undergraduate health professions students. FREE ATTENDENCE!
- Interested patients, family members of patients, and community members. FREE ATTENDENCE!
Registration questions? Contact wpsc@qualityhealth.org
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| Thank You Conference Sponsors! Shouldn't Your Name be Here Too? |
We are pleased to invite interested sponsors to support the WPSC’s 21st annual Northwest Patient Safety Conference. This annual event brings together healthcare leaders, advocates, and patients concerned with the critical topic of patient safety. This year’s virtual conference is ½ days on October 15 & 16 and continues a fantastic Pacific NW partnership with the Oregon Patient Safety Commission and the Health Quality BC. The virtual format and regional approach registered over 500 in 2023 and attracted an incredible lineup of speakers!
Sponsorship information is available here. |
Thank you! - HQBC
- OPSC
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Wellpoint
- WSHA
- WNSA
- Parker Smith & Feek
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CHPW
- Comagine
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| Social Need and Health Equity Summit 2024 |
Join us on Thursday, November 7th from 9am to 12:15 pm PT for the Social Need and Health Equity Summit, hosted by the Foundation for Health Care Quality and Bree Collaborative.
Building upon last year's development of four pivotal reports—Advancing Health Equity, Social Need Screening, Social Need Intervention, and Storing and Sharing Data—this webinar will delve into practical implementations and strategies for promoting health equity. Discover how organizations across Washington are applying these guidelines, from enhancing social need screening practices to implementing effective interventions and advancing data collection like SOGI data. Gain insights on new updates around these topics. Explore how to foster sustained change within our health ecosystem, aiming to align strategies that ensure equitable health outcomes for all communities.
Plenary Presentation: Health Justice by Edwin Lindo, JD
Associate Teaching Professor, Edwin Lindo, has embarked on the journey to ask and explore the hard questions of Race & Racism within the institutions of Medicine and Law, and how they inform society more broadly. Edwin brings the interdisciplinary study of Critical Race Theory, Lat Crit, and community organizing to Medicine and Law so we can better learn how Racism detrimentally affects our health, our learning, our teaching, and justice. As faculty in the Department of Family Medicine, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities and at Morehouse School of Medicine, Edwin has published, taught, and developed curriculum on Critical Race Theory and Medicine; and provides student and faculty development around the issues of race and equity in medical education, patient care, and research. Most recently, Edwin has become Appointed Faculty for the Weitzman Institute, a nationally recognized research and education organization. Professor Lindo currently serves as the Assistant Dean for Social and Health Justice within the Office of Healthcare Equity at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His research and scholarship have focused on the history of racialized medicine, race & racism within medicine, social justice, social movements, and decolonized pedagogies for critical education. Edwin is also the creator and host of The Praxis Podcast – a podcast focused on addressing racism within medicine in all its forms. Lastly, he is an internationally recognized speaker and thinker on these critical issues. Estell (his partner and wife) and Edwin founded and curated Estelita’s Library, a Social Justice Community Library & Bookstore dedicated to the goal of bringing truth and justice to communities through decentralized knowledge and decolonized spaces. Their books cover topics of justice, liberation, identity, race & racism, economic and political theory, and anything else that guides us in understanding our world through a critical lens. You can find them at EstelitasLibrary.org. Estelita’s Library is named after their 3 year old, Estella.
Presentations:
- Social Need Screening & Interventions Panel speakers TBA
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An ACH referral pathway: Connecting clients from the hospital to the community Panel by Peace Health, SWACH and WAGAP
- Strengthening SOGI data collection to improve client outcomes Panel by MultiCare, UnitedHealthcare Group and WSHA
- Care Coordination Updates by Michael Garrett
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