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MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD
Re-Membering
Our Members
If we are to remain the association of choice for healthcare
quality professionals, NAHQ realizes how important it is to
“re-member” our members. The association strives to be a
user-friendly association for members and other customers who rely
on us to be the source for education, research,
networking, and certification.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Tips
for Working with the Electronic Health Record
Skip Valusek, PhD CPHQ, director of informatics support at
HealthEast Care System, a four-hospital not-for-profit healthcare
system in St. Paul, MN, recently spoke with NAHQ E-News
about how the electronic health record affects the role of the
healthcare quality professional.
Spotlight
Chicago-Area
Healthcare System Takes on MRSA
In 2002, Lance Peterson, MD FIDSA FASCP, an epidemiologist at
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) in north suburban Chicago
noticed a rise in the number of patients with methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections at his healthcare
system’s three area hospitals. That realization, combined with a
rise in reported MRSA infections in the Chicago area, prompted a
series of planning meetings on infection control.
INDUSTRY TRENDS
Coordinating
Care Is a Group Effort
Care coordination is one of the biggest challenges in healthcare
today. Care is fragmented, with little communication across
settings and between providers and vendors, and improving care
coordination requires commitment from all stakeholders. Several
collaborative efforts are placing this issue in the
spotlight.
ASSOCIATION NEWS
CPHQ Recertification Deadline Looms
If your recertification cycle ends December 31, 2007, you have just
a few weeks to submit your recertification.
Two JHQ Team Members Assume Editors’ Posts
Two Journal for Healthcare Quality team members recently
took on new responsibilities for the journal’s Web
Exclusives: Eileen Johnson will serve as media editor and
Michelle Horvath as q&a coeditor.
NAHQ
Update
AHRQ: Certain Mortality Rates Dipped from 1994 to 2004
A report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality finds
that risk-adjusted mortality rates for heart attack, congestive
heart failure, pneumonia, stroke, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and
hip fracture steadily declined between 1994 and 2004.
CDC to Feature Webcast on Legal Preparedness for Chronic Disease
Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) will host Cutting Edge Legal Preparedness for Chronic
Disease Prevention on Thursday, November 29, 2007, 2–3:15 pm
Eastern Time.
MEMBER NEWS
Celebrations
of Healthcare Quality Week!
Thanks to all who participated in this year’s National Healthcare
Quality Week—all across the country, the spirit of quality was
spread! These snapshots show how some of your colleagues celebrated
quality.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you
develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an
exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
—Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State
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