Partnership Symposium 2002 - Smart Designs for Patient Safety

Healthcare organizations are competing for the trust and confidence of patients like never before. Expecting miracles and worried about mistakes, consumers are challenging us to manage health care quality more effectively...and much more consistently. On their behalf, the media, regulators and accreditors have weighed in with escalating safety demands and new urgency for immediate action. Health care payers and intently focused on sorting out the superior health care organizations from the rest, using an ambitious agenda for safety improvement as a core measure.

Simulation has emerged from military operation and commercial aviation as an effective tool for teamwork development, skills build the essence of simulation is interactive game playing to develop the skills needed to practice and improve performance in the real world.

In only two years, The Partnership Symposium has become one of the finest national meetings focused on patient safety, renowned from across the health care industry, The Partnership Symposium 2002 will continue its focus on restoring trust and improving patient, its diverse attendees to experience "smart designs" critical to improving patient safety.

Lead by convening partners p4ps, Premier Inc., VHA Inc., and VHA Health Foundation, The Partnership Symposium 2002: Smart Designs For Patient Safety will create an interactive environment of healthcare leaders across the nation to:

• Engage stakeholders in the consumer, regulatory, legal and political arenas
• Experience interactive learning through simulation
• Explore the latest smart designs to reduce adverse events and improve care

Who Should Attend

In addition to consumer, regulatory, legal and political stakeholders, Partnership Symposium 2002 is targeted at diverse group of:

• Chief Executive Officers
• Chief Operating Officers
• Chief Information Officers
• Chief Medical Officers
• Chief Nursing Officers
• Vice Presidents or Clinical Services
• Performance Improvement and Clinical Services
• Risk Managers
• Pharmacy Executives
• Education Executives
• Materials Management Executives
• Operating Room Supervisors
• Physician Leaders
• Safety Directors

Logistics

Partnership Symposium 2002: Smart Designs for Patient Safety
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C., October 14-16, 2002