Hospital Workgroup (HoW)

resources | contacts | meeting minutes/materials | mission | charter

Quality Improvement team members as well as others involved with hospital quality improvement activities are welcome to participate with the HoW. Participants are asked to: offer perspectives and ideas, actively participate in meetings, discussions, and decisions, volunteer for action items shares resources, knowledge, skills and expertise, and communicates HoW activities within their home organization.

Learn more about the next HoW Meeting, or review the meeting archives.

Contact Information

Project Contact:
Suzanne Anders, RN, BSBA, CPHQ
Clinical Quality Specialist
Health Services Advisory Group
Telephone: 520.661.9370
E-mail: sanders@azqio.sdps.org

Cochair:
Adda Alexander, RN, MBA
Executive Vice President
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Telephone: 602.445.4300 Ext. 4314
E-mail: aalexander@azhha.org

Cochair:
Lorraine K. Olsheski
VP Care Management
Abrazo Health Care
Telephone: 602.674.1419
E-mail: lolsheski@abrazohealth.com

Cochair:
Suzanne K. Powell, RN, BSN, MBA
Director, Acute Care/QI program
Health Services Advisory Group
Telephone: 602.665.6109
E-mail: spowell@azqio.sdps.org

• November 2007. To view materials, click here.
• April 2007. To view materials, click here.
• January 2007. To view materials, click here.
• October 2006. To view materials, click here.
• April 2006. To view materials, click here
• January 2006. To view materials, click here.
• November 2005. To view materials, click here.
• March 2005 (DOC, 44K). To view materials, click here.
• January 2005 (DOC, 38K). To view materials, click here.
• November 2004 (DOC, 42K)
• September 2004 (DOC, 34K)
• May 2004 (DOC, 26K)
• March 2004 (DOC, 48K)
• January 2004 (DOC, 48K)

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Mission
To positively impact the quality of health care that Arizona's Medicare beneficiaries and other patient populations receive, by working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary group of clinical and quality improvement team members to create and implement improvement methods and strategies in the acute care setting.

Charter
The Hospital Workgroup will:

• promote a partnership between [Hospital Name], Health Services Advisory Group, and other health care organizations within Arizona that will translate into higher outcome scores for 7SoW activities.

• communicate successes, barriers, and lessons learned within Arizona's acute care settings in order to reduce redundancy of effort.

• support educational quality efforts--especially those pertaining to methodology, data interpretation, guidelines, and criteria--that translate into information that can be used by providers and recipients of health care.

• communicate information relating to clinical topics, care processes, and quality improvement projects within the participants' organizations and systems as well as among participating HoW members.

• coordinate simultaneous quality improvement projects between multiple providers, M+COs, practitioners, and other health care providers.

• promote compliance with 7SoW clinical indicators for hospitalized cardiovascular and pneumonia patients.

• identify real, operational means for reducing surgical infections.

• collaborate in the development and implementation of materials, tools, and interventions to improve the quality of health care.

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