For Immediate Release
ASQ Launches Healthcare Quality Practice Seminars
Free Webinars to Focus on Key Healthcare Delivery Issues
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 5, 2007 — Today’s most crucial issues related to healthcare quality and delivery will be the focus of a new series of four sponsor-supported seminars offered via the Web by the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
The first Healthcare Quality Practice Seminar is titled Measure, Manage, Monitor, and Improve: Case Study on Improving Hand Washing Compliance, andis scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1-2 p.m. CDT. The webinar features Bellin Hospital, Green Bay, Wis., and is sponsored by Statit Software, a leader in continuous performance improvement solutions for healthcare.
The webinar, presented by Colleen O’Brien, will discuss the process Bellin Health underwent while preparing for a visit from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). O’Brien is the team leader of Quality Resource at Bellin, as well as an ASQ member.
Each webinar in the ASQ Healthcare Quality Practice Seminar series will last one hour and will include a 45-minute case presentation followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Seminars will be of interest to healthcare quality professionals and healthcare administrators who have responsibility for quality improvement within their organization. Future topics will include establishing and tracking effective measures, Six Sigma basics, PDSA, FMEA and value-added analysis.
Healthcare professionals can register for the webinar via ASQ at http://www.asq.org/healthcareqps/index.html. Future webinar dates and times will be available at this site.
“We look forward to presenting a diverse range of seminars featuring real-world cases studies with useful lessons that today’s healthcare professional can replicate in their own organization,” said Paul Borawski, ASQ executive director and chief strategic officer.
The American Society for Quality, www.asq.org, has been the world’s leading authority on quality for more than 60 years. With more than 93,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide. As champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers, encouraging all to Make Good Great®. ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding partner of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.
