The Right Fix: Building Quality and Efficiency Into Healthcare Organizations

While the United States spends more on healthcare than any other country, a landmark study released last fall by the Commonwealth Fund confirms what has long been suspected—namely, American healthcare now ranks well below other industrialized countries, particularly in critical areas such as patient safety, infant mortality, preventive care, and customer satisfaction.

Despite these disturbing findings, there are pockets of success where administrators, doctors, nurses, and insurance providers have brought new ways of thinking to traditional problems, and along the way they have demonstrated that quality and efficiency are not tradeoffs, but compatible goals that can—and must—be reached.

Please join Suffolk University on April 25, 2007 for an in-depth look at the systemic problems facing health organizations and the new ideas that are changing the way we approach healthcare in America.

Date:

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Time:

8:00-10:00 AM
Continental breakfast starts at 7:30.

Format:

Panel and round-table discussion with moderator.

Panelists:

Christina Saint Martin
VP of Governance & Administration
Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA

Marc A. Rodwin
Professor & Author
Suffolk University Law School

Sally S. Iles
Associate VP of Medicine & Primary Care Services
Massachusetts General Hospital

Robert J. Mandel, MD, MBA
VP of Health Care Services
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Gail A. Nielsen
Clinical Performance Improvement Education Administrator
Iowa Health System

Ellen Hafer
Executive VP and COO
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

Moderator:
Dr. Deanna Lites
Healthbeat reporter
7NEWS, Boston

Location:

Suffolk University

Sargent Hall
120 Tremont Street, Boston

Contact:

John Shaw
617-557-1570
Register now