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Improving Quality in Long Term Care:
Quality Improvement as Research

November 14-16, 2008
Sheraton Inner Harbor
Baltimore, Maryland

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Friday, November 14th
5:00pm
 - 5:30pm Conference Registration
5:30pm - 6:00pm Dinner
6:00pm - 6:15pm Welcome and Goals for Conference
Stefan Gravenstein, MD, MPH, CMD
AMDA Foundation LTC Research Network Director
6:15pm - 7:15pm KEYNOTE:
From Practice to Research: Leading the Health Care Team in Quality Improvement
Paul McGann, MD, MS, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
7:30pm - 9:00pm Learning Lab with dessert reception
(Procter & Gamble)

Saturday, November 15th
8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast
8:30am - 9:15am IRB Assessment and Management of QI Projects
Ed Davidson, PharmD, MPH
Insight Therapeutics
9:15am - 10:00am Pharmacological Interventions to Prevent Frailty
William B. Ershler, MD
National Institute on Aging
10:00am - 10:15am Coffee Break
10:15am - 11:45am Quality Indicators and the QA Process in the Facility – Reducing Hospitalization Rate
Keith Rapp, MD, CMD & Mary Pat Rapp, PhD, RN
Geriatric Associates of America
12:00pm - 1:00pm Learning Lab with Lunch
(TBD)
1:15pm - 3:15pm Quality Improvement Strategies….Application to your Facility
Marguerite M. McLaughlin, MA
Quality Partners of Rhode Island
3:15pm - 3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm - 4:30pm When is Quality Improvement Research?
Christopher J. Crnich, MD, MS
Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Wisconsin
5:00pm - 6:00pm Learning Labs with hors’ dourves
(TBD)

Sunday, November 16th
8:30am - 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am Collaborating Effectively to Achieve QI/Research Outcomes
Robin E. Remsburg, PhD, GCNS, BC, FAAN
Director, School of Nursing Associate Dean, College of Health and Human Services George Mason University
10:10am - 10:30am Final Remarks & Adjournment
Stefan Gravenstein, MD, MPH, CMD,
AMDA Foundation LTC Research Network Director

 
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