"1st Annual Quality Chasm Summit: A Focus on Communities" 1/6/2004
IOM, Washington, D.C.
An invitational summit addressing environmental forces that need to be adapted in order to achieve significant improvements in health care quality.
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PLENARY SESSION: WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
Reed V. Tuckson, M.D., chair, Quality Chasm Summit Committee
Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., president, IOM
John Lumpkin, M.D., senior vice president, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
"A CALL FOR A BETTER HEALTH SYSTEM: HOW TO MAKE SUCCESS THE NORM IN AMERICA"
A consumer speaker relates experiences dealing with broken health system, and an interactive community panel shares success stories--as well as failures--in overcoming barriers to improving quality care in each of the five targeted priority areas.
Moderator:
Allen Daniels, CEO Alliance Behavioral Healthcare and Quality Chasm Summit Committee member
Consumer speaker:
Martha Whitecotton, R.N., vice president, Carolinas Medical Center
Community Panel:
William Bruning, J.D., Mid America Coalition on Health Care Community Initiative on
Depression
Henry Gaines, Greater Flint Health Coalition
Jay Portnoy, M.D., Children’s Mercy Hospital/Kansas City Asthma Coalition
"ARTICULATING THE GAP: LAYING THE ISSUES ON THE DOORSTEP OF LEADERSHIP"
Keynote speaker:
Donald M. Berwick, M.D., CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
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