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The Charter is “a set of expectations as to how model health care organizations should be led and managed.” It establishes principles for delivering effective patient care; maintaining a healthy, effective workforce; and improving population health. It contains a strong vision for patient rights, and an emphasis on community health. It is achievable. Baldrige Award winning HCOs pursue similar values, have solved and documented appropriate work processes, and produced documented, audited top quartile performance. The Charter should be part of every healthcare management student's learning. A copy is at: http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/The_Charter_on_Professionalism_for_Health_Care.98296.aspx ...

HAS AUPHA FAILED? This paper, by a team at Boston Consulting was published recently in PLOS ONE: Quantifying Geographic Variation in Health Care Outcomes in the United States before and after Risk-Adjustment, Barry L. Rosenberg, Joshua A. Kellar, Anna Labno, et al. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166762 It documents that our industry, healthcare delivery, is a chaotic mess. From the abstract: We compared outcome variation at state, hospital referral region, hospital service area, county, and hospital levels. Risk-adjusted outcomes were calculated after adjusting for population factors, co-morbidities, and health ...

Like many of you, we find ourselves in need of a couple of good faculty members, one to take over the role as the program director of our very strong undergraduate program this Fall. We've posted an ad with AUPHA...actually paid for it, believe it or not, I'm just getting the word out. We have a strong, well-supported program nestled in the foothills of the beautiful Rocky Mountains...I just got done running and saw a couple of golfers on the course. Skiers are also on the slopes now...hard to beat that. Contact me if you want to know more. Ken

The UT Tyler Executive Health Care Administration-MPA program is proud to announce the graduation of our second cohort of students on Friday, December 13, 2013. Twenty-three students completed the 16 month hybrid program. The cohort was composed of 12 students with clinical backgrounds and 11 with administrative backgrounds. As a whole, the cohort had on average 14 years of health care experience. The UTTyler EHCA-MPA program began in August 2011. It is a 16 month hybrid program requiring students to attend classes on campus one week at the beginning of each semester, with the remainder of each course completed online. Students come from areas of Texas ...

Many years ago when I was an Intravenous (IV) Therapist in training at a major teaching hospital, I sat down to a thirty minute dinner break with my fellow IV team members in the hospital cafeteria. One of our team mates was late. She rushed to the table with her tray, and raced to tell us why she was delayed. Not only did she provide the team with chapter and verse of the patient she last saw, but also told us the patient’s diagnosis, the tragedy surrounding the patient, the little boy she was leaving behind, and her youth. To read more, go here . Happy Holidays! Sharon Sharon Buchbinder, RN, PhD Professor and Program Director MS in Healthcare ...

I nterprofessional Faculty Development Institute for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety May 20-22, 2013 Dulles Hyatt – Herndon, Virginia The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) is pleased to offer an opportunity for faculty teams to attend the Interprofessional Faculty Development Institute for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety on May 20-22, 2013 at the Dulles Hyatt in Herndon, VA. The overall goal of the institute is to create faculty champions who can enhance interprofessional curricula, learning experiences, and assessment of learners in quality improvement and patient safety at the point of care. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE http://www.aupha.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3853 AUPHA 2012 David A. Winston Policy Scholarship Symposium ARLINGTON, VA – On October 10-11, 2012, current David A. Winston Health Policy Scholars gathered with current and former health policy fellows and members of the Winston Health Policy Fellowship Board for the annual Scholars Symposium in Washington, DC. The symposium, held at the Federation of American Hospitals headquarters, focused on the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act (health care reform), with perspectives offered by representatives from the administration, a Romney campaign ...

You can find a complete online and open course on process improvement at http://openonlinecourses.com/cqi This course includes the syllabus, videoed lectures, videoed demonstrations, text of reading and other features. You are welcomed to use all or portion of the course in your own work. This is a free service. Farrokh Alemi, Ph.D. George Mason University