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Culture of Safety:
A System Strategy to Reduce Medical Errors
and Improve Patient Safety

Date:	Friday, March 3, 2006
Time:	7:30AM - 4:30PM
Location:	Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine John and Herta Cuneo Center 2160 South First Avenue Maywood, IL

Thank you to all the participants and attendees (over 260) making us the largest annual regional patient safety conference in the country.
Testimonials: "Excellent program. Speakers brought quite a bit of knowledge and common sense approaches to improve patient safety." "Extremely beneficial. I am inspired and equipped with great awareness. Thank you." "Can always count on the highest quality program from CPSF and this certainly was that."
Click here for a reference document containing relevant criteria for creating a Culture of Safety. (Compiled and edited by Lorri Zipperer, MA)
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Speakers:		Downloadable Files: (coming soon)
Keynote Speaker: James B. Conway Senior Advisor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement		"Leading Patient Safety: An Extraordinary Journey"
Morning Panel: Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Safety
Julie Morath, RN, MS COO, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota		"The role of leadership in promoting a culture of safety"
Lee B. Sacks, MD Executive VP, CMO, Advocate Health Care		"Moving to a Culture of Safety"
		Answers to Remaining Audience Questions
Kathy Reno, RN, BSN, MBA COO Clinical Services, Chief Nursing Officer, Northwest Community Hospital		"Improving Safety by the 2 C's method: Communication and Construction"
Interactive Workshops:     1. Creating a System-Wide Patient Safety Plan     2. Involving Patients and Families in Patient Safety     3. Measuring and Improving Physician Safety Culture     4. A Clinical Microsystem Approach to Improving Quality and Safety of Care     5. Safe Stay: Communicating Patient Safety     6. Advocates for Disclosure: Developing a Disclosure Support Team     7. Patient Safety Leadership WalkRounds
Afternoon Panel: "Cultural" impact and interaction of the 2005 Illinois Adverse Event Reporting Law and 2005 Federal Patient Safety Law in Illinois
Eric Whitaker, MD, MPH Director, Illinois Department of Public Health
Thomas Demetrio, JD Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago, IL
Martin Hatlie, JD Co-Founder, Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, Chicago, IL
Michael Millenson Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
CPSF and the 2006 Annual Meeting are made possible by the support of: Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute Michael Reese Health Trust Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Illinois Nurses Association Northeastern Illinois Pharmacists Association Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council CareScience, A Quovadx Company Reva and David Logan Foundation Chicago Medical Society Walgreens Jewel-Osco Illinois Academy of Family Physicians American College of Physicians - IL Chapter