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Small Rural Hospitals Share Success Stories at Portsmouth Meeting
The 4th annual performance improvement summit brought together speakers and hospital leaders on both the national and local levels, all dedicated to the idea that small rural hospitals CAN strive for, attain, and sustain measurable quality improvement.
Sponsored by the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont state offices of rural health, in collaboration with the RoundTable, the meeting attracted hospital CEOs, financial officers, quality improvement staff and rural health policymakers.
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Presentation Hightlights:
- Dr. Gerald Doekson, Director, National Center for Rural Health Works, presented "real numbers" to show the economic impact of losing (or, conversely, gaining,) a physician in a rural community.
- In a presentation that kept her audience nodding and smiling in agreement, Carol Buchdahl, Vermont Technical College, updated the performance improvement work she is doing with critical access hospitals.
- A theme running through the conference was the Institute for Health Improvement's 5 Million Lives Campaign. Speaker Jeff Spade, Executive Director of the North Carolina Rural Health Center, NC Hospital Association, is currently working with rural hospitals across the U.S., representing the faculty of IHI.
- "Never Too Small to Save a Life" was the intriguing title for an afternoon breakout session presented by a team from the New York State Critical Access Hospital Network Group.
- In another breakout session, Bob DeMarco, Chief of Quality and Systems Improvement, Springfield Hospital, Springfield, VT, related his facility's partnership with IHI. Springfield became a CAH two years ago and is on the way to becoming a mentor hospital.
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