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Arizona Performance Improvement
Summit for Rural Hospitals
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
8:30 a.m-3:30 p.m.
Arizona Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, Rural Health Office,
University of Arizona Zuckerman College of Public Health
Location: Room A 122, University of Arizona, Drachman Hall,
1295 N. Martin Avenue. Tucson, Arizona
Purpose
The Arizona Performance Improvement Summit for Rural Hospitals will again bring together Arizona’s small, rural hospitals to discuss activities underway that implement and measure their hospital wide PI initiatives.
Highlights
• Alternative methodologies being used to measure and track performance improvement.
• Use of Rural Performance Management (RPM) Balanced Scorecard system and how they are using the online system to support their PI efforts.
• How Medicare’s Pay for Performance program could potentially support the improvement of care to Medicare beneficiaries
• How one CAH - involved in a formal Network - is addressing quality, and
• An update on the 8th Scope of Work in Arizona’s rural hospitals
• How to interpret the RPM Balanced Scorecard data and use it as a strategic management tool
Agenda
8:30 a.m. Registration (Room A276)
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions (Room A122 - all presentations)
Alison Hughes, Director, Arizona Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
9:10 a.m. Pay for Performance and Quality Improvement
Dr. Gary Smethers, Senior V.P. of Medical Services and Chief Medical
Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
10:00 a.m. Public Health at Your Service
Dr. G. Marie Swanson, Dean, UA Zuckerman College of Public Health
10:10 a.m. Quality Improvement in Arizona, Dashboards and other Methods
Rich Polheber, CEO, Carondelet Holy Cross Hospital
Loren Ellery, CEO, or Gail Shannon, Gila River Healthcare Corporation
Chris Cronberg, CEO, Northern Cochise Community Hospital
10:50 a.m. Quality Improvement in Arizona, Balanced Scorecard
Mike Carter, CEO, Southeast Arizona Medical Center
Dawn Reece, PI Coordinator, Benson Hospital
Jeff Hamblen, CEO, Little Colorado Medical Center (invited)
11:45 a.m. Lunch (A274 and A276)
12:45 p.m. How a Critical Access Hospital and a Start-up Healthcare Network
Approach Quality
Daryl Melvin, CEO, Hopi Health Care Center (invited)
1:00 p.m. Who’s Making Substantive Quality Change in Rural Arizona (and How to
Measure It)
Judith Richard, HSAG
1:15 p.m. Effective Practices in Using Balanced Scorecard
Greg Wolf and Dr. Scott Goodspeed, Stroudwater Associates
3:15 p.m. The Future of Performance Improvement in Arizona
3:30 p.m. Adjourn
Registration
The summit is free of charge but pre-registration is required.
Download a registration flyer here.
Mileage reimbursement (one car per hospital) will be available for CAH's..
Sponsored by the Arizona Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, Rural Health Office,
and partially funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy, HRSA
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