SCOAP Annual Retreats
2010 Annual Retreat - May 4th
Registration is now open for our third annual statewide retreat, to be held May 4, 2010 at the Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center.
The $100 registration fee includes continental breakfast, breaks, lunch, materials, and parking; but Register by April 4, 2010 and pay only $75!
Keynote Speaker:
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH is a staff member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the New Yorker magazine. He received his B.A.S. from Stanford University, M.A. (in politics, philosophy, and economics) from Oxford University, M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton presidential campaign and White House from 1992 to 1993. Since 1998, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. In 2003, he completed his surgical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and joined the faculty as a general and endocrine surgeon.
In 2006, he received the MacArthur Award for his research and writing. His book Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes On An Imperfect Science was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002 and is published in more than a hundred countries. He was editor of The Best American Science Writing 2006. His book Better: A Surgeon’s Notes On Performance is a New York Times bestseller and one of Amazon.com’s ten best books of 2007. His newest book, The Checklist Manifesto, is one of Amazon’s best books of the month: December 2009.
Download our Agenda to view more featured topics to be covered during the Retreat including surgical checklists, emerging evidence, annual data reports, workshops on albumin and glucose monitoring and treatment, and more....
*Special Note: This conference is being held concurrently with the Washington Patient Safety Coalition's annual Northwest Patient Safety Conference! Attendees are invited to participate in a Poster Session, Book Sale, and a concluding plenary session featuring David Marx speaking about "Just Culture."
2009 Annual Retreat
SCOAP's Advisory Board would like to thank the 53 SCOAP surgeons, data abstractors, quality improvement professionals, and SCOAP staff members who joined us from over 22 hospitals across Washington state at this year's retreat, in conjunction with the Washington State Chapter of the American College of Surgeons annual meeting, at Campbell’s Resort in Lake Chelan.
Governor Christine Gregoire welcomed participants to the meeting. Keeping SCOAP vital was a core theme of the day, and discussion with the SCOAP community revolved around new metrics, new reporting formats, and expanded SCOAP focus. SCOAP Medical Director Dave Flum reviewed the activities of the past year, which included adding 21 new hospitals to the SCOAP roster, launching the SCOAP Surgical Checklist Initiative, offering surgeons a way to fulfill their MOC Part 4 requirements, and beginning work on several new modules (for more information on SCOAP’s activities during the past year, click here).
Click here to download an agenda of the full day’s schedule! (click to download PDF)
Keynote/Plenary Session Speakers
John B. Leslie, MD, MBA, Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, examined the issues of post-operative nausea and vomiting.
Sean D. Sullivan, RPh, PhD, Professor in the Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health/Community Medicine, the Director of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program (PORPP), and an adjunct professor in the Allergy Section of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington gave the keynote address and outlined the business case for SCOAP and how SCOAP can show return on investment to hospitals.
Donna M. Daniel, PhD, Corporate Director for quality measurement and improvement at Atlantic Health’s hospitals and other healthcare facilities, spoke to attendees about “The Model for Improvement”
Selected Sessions
Colleagues from the following three hospitals shared how SCOAP has improved Quality of Care at their hospitals:
- Skagit Valley Medical Center – Morrie Johnson, MD
- Swedish Medical Center – Robin Arnold & Michael Florence, MD
- Valley Medical Center – Peter Grigas
