The World Congress 4th Annual Leadership Summit on Process Improvement and Business Excellence in Health Care convenes hospitals, health systems, health plans and medical/specialty group practices to share innovations in continuous quality improvement including Lean, Six Sigma, Baldrige and other methodologies.

"During 2006, 2007 and 2008, nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents occurred among Medicare patients, affecting more than 900,000 beneficiaries and costing almost $8.9 billion. In addition, more than 99,000 patients died as a result of a patient-safety event, the study said." ⁽¹⁾

Reduce errors to increase patient safety and save millions through process improvement efforts. Hear directly from the experts at this MUST ATTEND summit.

C-Level Lean and Six Sigma Experts Join the Elite Speaker Faculty:
Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer, Lifespan Corporation; Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research), The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University	Kathleen Jennison Goonan, MD Executive Director, Center for Performance Excellence, Institute for Health Policy, Mass General Hospital; Former Judge, Malcolm Baldrige Award
Patrick Hagan President and Chief Operating Officer Seattle Children's Hospital	Lori S. Herndon, RN, BSN, MBA President and Chief Executive Officer AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center
Tim Jones Chief Operating Officer and Administrator MetroWest Medical Center	Wendy Novicoff, PhD Manager and Assistant Professor University of Virginia Health System
David Reiter, MD, MBA, FACS Professor, Otolaryngology, Jefferson Medical College; Associate Chief Medical Officer, Jefferson University Hospitals	Jennifer Schneider Vice President, Lean and Continuous Improvement St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center
Andrei Soran Chief Executive Officer MetroWest Medical Center

To Inquire About Sponsorship and Executive Networking Opportunities, contact:

Ron Trznadel
Executive Vice President, Business Development
The World Congress Leadership Summits
Phone: 781-939-2432
Email: [email protected]

⁽¹⁾ SOURCE: Maureen McKinney.  "Patient-safety incidents still commonplace, study finds."  Modern Healthcare. 
March 31, 2010.  http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100331/NEWS/303319962/-1.

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