Dr. Danielle Ofri Visits UNC
2019-11-19 - 2019-11-20
Visiting Professor: Dr. Danielle Ofri
Bestselling Author & NYU Professor of Medicine
November 19-20, 2019

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is a physician at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country, and a faculty member of NYU School of Medicine. She writes about medicine and the doctor-patient connection for the New York Times, Slate Magazine and other publications.
She will be speaking in Kirkland Auditorium on November 19th at 4PM on, “Surviving Medicine in the 21st Century,” and will present at Grand Rounds on November 20th at 7AM in Bondurant G100, discussing “Medical Error” and patient safety. (Details of presentation topics in flyer.)
Danielle is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, the first literary journal to arise from a medical setting.
She is the author of a collection of books about the world of medicine, including:

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journey
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Best of the Bellevue Literary Review

Contact facultyaffairs@med.unc.edu for more information.

Physician Engagement in Quality and Safety Class
2019-11-22, 2020-01-14, 2020-02-17

Due: Letters of Intent for Improvement Scholars Program
2019-12-02

Dr. Joia Crear-Perry at OB Grand Rounds: "Respect, Dignity, Equity"
2019-12-04 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Old Clinic Auditorium 4008
Who: Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, Founder and President of the National Birth Equity Collaborative (NBEC) is speaking at OB Grand Rounds
When: Wed, December 4th from 4-5pm
Where: Old Clinic Auditorium, 4th floor
Full event details: https://www.med.unc.edu/obgyn/event/grand-rounds-11/

UNC Livestream of IHI National Forum
2019-12-10 - 2019-12-11

QI Class by PIPS: Data Visualization
2019-12-17 11:00 - 12:30

Quality and Safety Awards at UNC Medical Center
2020-01-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Cancer Hospital Conf. Room 1
The first inpatient and outpatient teams to be awarded the Quality and Safety Award for UNC Medical Center will be recognized at the MCIC meeting at 3:30. Cake reception preceding.

Clinician Leadership in Quality and Safety Class
2020-02-06 13:00 - 17:00

IHQI Speaker Series: Using Good Catches to Improve Quality and Safety
2020-02-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Bondurant G-100

QI Class by PIPS: Methodologies in QI
2020-02-18 11:00 - 12:30

Notification of Awards: Improvement Scholars Program
2020-02-28

Clinician Leadership in Quality and Safety Symposium
2020-03-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Old Clinic Auditorium 4008

Patient Safety Awareness Week
2020-03-08 - 2020-03-14
Patient Safety Awareness Week 2020

UNC Medical Center has a number of events planned to celebrate Patient Safety Week, March 8-14, including a webinar on patient safety, executive rounding on units (with treats!), and a chance to be highlighted on UNC Medical Center’s social media channels.

Every year we celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week in order to recognize the important work we do each day in keeping our patients free from harm and to encourage us all to learn more about improving safety in health care. This work is more important than ever as medical harm continues to be a leading cause of death worldwide.

In addition, stop by the Performance Improvement and Patient Safety (PIPS) Office (across from the Chapel on 1st floor Memorial) to pick up Patient Safety stickers and candy next week between 9 and 4.
On Tuesday, March 10 from noon -1 p.m., the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is hosting a free virtual training entitled “Principles for Improving Patient Safety Measurement” – for more details and to register for the webinar, click here!
Send a selfie with your team and your favorite patient safety slogan to the Communications department to be included on UNC’s Twitter, Facebook, and/or Instagram pages, as well as on the Intranet. Send selfies to newsemp@unchealth.unc.edu.

Every day is Patient Safety Day at UNC Health Care, and we thank you all for everything you do to keep our patients safe! As a special thanks to individuals who go above and beyond in their patient safety efforts, the following people have been selected by the PIPS department to receive this year’s Patient Safety Awards:

Danielle Anderson – CSTII, 4ONC
Christa Clark – Infection Preventionist, Epidemiology
Jill Cosgrove – CNIV, NSICU
Molly Haugh – CNI, ED Main Hospital
Sejal Kansagra – Pharmacist, UNC Hillsborough
Ellenita Kornegay – CNII, Adult Specialty Care Team
Dr. Jay Lamba – Clinical Assistant Professor, Hospitalists
Kalynn Northam – Pharmacist, Pharmacy Decentral Services
Dr. Dan Park – Associate Medical Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Merari Sanchez Vega – Clinical Documentation Specialist, HIM CDI
Dr. Lauren Schiff – Medical Director for Perioperative Services, UNC Hillsborough
Guifeng Zhang – CNIV, 3 West

POSTPONED: Physician Engagement in Quality and Safety Class
2020-03-25
The March 25th Physician Engagement in Quality and Safety session has been POSTPONED to safeguard against COVID-19. I will send out the schedule update as soon as it is available.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thanks
-Karen
karen.davis5@unchealth.unc.edu

POSTPONED: Physician Engagement in Quality and Safety Class
2020-04-30

POSTPONED: QI Class by PIPS: Users' Choice
2020-05-19 11:00 - 12:30

Physician Engagement in Quality and Safety
2020-06-16, 2020-09-30, 2020-10-26

POSTPONED: QI Class by PIPS: QI Macros Walkthrough
2020-06-16 11:00 - 12:30

Clinician Leadership in Quality and Safety
2020-06-25, 2020-08-19

Physician Engagement in Quality and Safety
2020-08-26 | Virtual Class

Associate Director Applications Due
2020-09-07

IHQI Improvement Scholars Symposium
2020-09-15 14:00 - 16:00

Quality Leader Applications Due
2020-09-18

UNCMC Quality and Safety Awards
2020-10-13
Awardees will be invited to a reception at the MCIC meeting in October and will receive individual plaques commemorating their achievements. Family members and team supervisors will be encouraged to attend.

Quality Expo by PIPS
2020-10-23 12:00 - 14:00
UNC Health’s 13th Annual Quality Expo! – Oct. 23
Join us on Friday, Oct. 23 from noon – 2 p.m. for Quality Expo 2020: Quality Unmasked! The Quality Expo is an annual poster fair that showcases the great quality improvement work happening at UNC Health. Since this year’s Quality Expo will be virtual only, the top three submissions and three runners up will be presenting their projects via WebEx. Following the presentations, we will have interactive discussions based around topics such as COVID-related Quality Expo submissions. Register to attend the Quality Expo here.
