Hospital Projects News & Events

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Hospital Project Calendar

CFMC is pleased to announce the arrival of our Hospital Project Calendar. In an effort to keep everyone informed of conference calls, WebExs, and meetings we have created a color coded calendar.

The Hospital Projects Calendar currently contains information related to CMSs 8th SOW, Critical Access Hospital conference calls, Colorado's Get With The Guidelines project, American Heart Association National conference calls, Colorado 5 Million Lives Campaign, and IHI-sponsored 5 Million Lives Campaign conference calls.

If we have missed important meetings or calls that you wish to have on this calendar please contact Marcy Cameron at mcameron@coqio.sdps.org. This calendar will be included in each week's newsletter with a revised date so you will know when it has been updated. To sign up to receive the weekly newsletter, please contact Marcy Cameron at mcameron@coqio.sdps.org.

Click here for the Hospital Project Calendar

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.

Hospital Conference Calls

CAH IPG Group Teleconference

• July 17, 2008: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
• September 18, 2008: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
• November 20, 2008: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

For more information on the IPG conferences please contact Hilarie Olson at 303.875.6975 or holson@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.

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