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• July 2, 2008
• June 25, 2008
• June 18, 2008
• June 11, 2008
• June 4, 2008
• May 28, 2008
• May 21, 2008
• May 14, 2008
• May 7, 2008
• April 30, 2008
• April 22, 2008
• April 16, 2008
• April 9, 2008
• April 2, 2008
• March 26, 2008
• March 19, 2008
• March 12, 2008
• March 5, 2008

Regional Meetings

Save the Date! Heart Failure Facility Lead Workshop Scheduled for July 25, 2008

Presented by the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care and the American Heart Association, July 25, 2008 at St. Mary’s Hospital and Medical Center, Grand Junction, CO.

The Facility Lead Workshop will be a one-day educational event that will be offered quarterly in several locations throughout Colorado. The Workshop is designed to help educate and inform facility leads and other team members with necessary processes to start an effective heart failure initiative in their hospitals. Topics include:

• Building the Heart Failure Team
• Defining the Heart Failure Quality Measures
• Locating Heart Failure Patients
• How to Achieve Medical Staff Buy-In
• Teaching Staff to Provide Appropriate Discharge Instructions to Heart Failure Patients
• Making Your Data Help You
• How to Implement the Tool Kit in Your Facility

Registration is FREE.

For more information please contact:

Marcy Cameron, Project Assistant, at 303.695.3300 ext. 3040, mcameron@coqio.sdps.org or Niki Hyde, Project Coordinator, at 303.847.5376, nhyde@cfmc.org. 

Save the Date! CFMC's Quality Summit Fall Workshop Series

We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting CFMC's Quality Summit - A Forum for Hospital Collaboration (formerly Medicare Challenge) meetings. We have scheduled the Fall 2008 meetings for the following dates:

Grand Junction
Grand Junction Courtyard and Residence Inn by Marriott
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Denver
Colorado Hospital Association
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Colorado Springs
Penrose St. Francis Health Services
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Greeley
North Colorado Medical Center
Thursday, October 16, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

You will be receiving the official flyer by e-mail soon, but please mark your calendars now to save the date. If you have any questions, please contact Marcy Cameron at mcameron@coqio.sdps.org.

Get With The Guidelines Regional WebEx Series
Presented by CFMC and the American Heart Association

GWTG WebExs are held monthly on the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm. All sessions are recorded and posted at https://ifmcevents.webex.com/ifmcevents.

July 8, 2008
11:00 am 12:00 pm
Therapeutic Induced Hypothermia
Presented by:
Amy Kreeger, Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center and Nancy Brunner, Boulder Community Hospital

Get With The Guidelines National WebEx Conferences

Held the 3rd Thursday of each month at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Mountain time.

To register for these national conferences, and to view future events, visit https://gwtg.webex.com.

GWTG PMT In-Depth Series (Outcome-led Webinars)

Held the 1st Thursday of each month at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Mountain Time.

Dates to be determined.

To be added to the GWTG call announcement list please email Marcy Cameron, Project Assistant, at mcameron@cfmc.org.