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November 24, 2008
8:00am - 4:00pm
Red and White Club, 1833 Crowchild Trail N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
A one-day interactive workshop designed for healthcare educators and leaders to discuss the core components of a Patient Safety Curriculum. Click here to learn more >>
November 20, 2008 marked the launch of a province wide leadership initiative “Taking it From the Top – Governance and Leadership Engagement in Quality and Patient Safety”. This initiative is being sponsored by a planning committee with the Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety (MIPS), the Canadian College of Health Service Executives (CCHSE), Regional Health Authorities of Manitoba (RHAM), Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC), Manitoba Health, three Regional Health Authority CEOs and three Regional Health Authority Board Chairs. The purpose of the initiative is to enhance the capacity of RHA boards and senior leaders to oversee safety and quality efforts.
On November 20, 2008, Minister Theresa Oswald, Minister of Health, brought greetings from the Government of Manitoba to 75 healthcare leaders in Manitoba. Minister Oswald was followed by a presentation by Sister Elizabeth Davis, is Chairperson of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. She presented “MAKING IT REAL: The Power of Engaged Governance and Leadership in Quality and Patient Safety”. Sister Davis has been a teacher, held leadership and governance positions in health organizations/authorities, served on numerous boards (including the Medical Council of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada), given hundreds of speeches and won many awards. She is a member of the Order of Canada and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Sister Davis’ presentation was as inspirational as it was practical. She shared her personal and organizational journey as a leader in healthcare safety. Sister Davis offered insights into key frameworks and actions to assist healthcare leaders (Boards and Management) in looking inward as well as outward to the community and beyond to help their transform their organizational culture. A key aspect of cultural transformation is leaders’ understanding of and influence on the underlying assumptions of organizations. Sister Davis suggests that the leader’s role in transforming culture is to “reframe, restructure, revitalize, and renew”. A key aspect of this work is establishing the value system in the organization that focuses on “a culture of safety, inter-professional teamwork, communication and research”.
To view Sister Davis’ slide presentation, click here.
Theme: KNOWLEDGE IS THE BEST MEDICINE. ASK. TALK. LISTEN.
Twenty-nine Manitobans registered with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute for Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW) as leaders.
The Manitoba Institute for patient Safety is aware of at least 60 CPSW activities that were planned in all regional health authorities in Manitoba. Many of these activities focused on the public as being key to improving medication safety. Public service announcements, a planners’ guide, display banners, tent cards, display boards and tools such as the Institute’s newly released Medication Card, bus ads, and radio ads related to medication safety were created and disseminated.
We thank all our leaders and all participants for making the week a success!
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