Location: Virtual

Offered with IHA’s Illinois Risk Management Services
Sponsored by the Illinois Health and Hospital Association
The Collaborative Just Culture® Program: 
A New Evidence-Producing Approach to Healthcare Reliability 

Get strategies to elevate just culture and high reliability in your organization. This workshop will showcase powerful new qualification standards and the methodology behind them to enhance patient safety and quality care. Exclusively for IHA’s Illinois Risk Management (IRMS) and Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS PSO) members, this program will center on  Collaborative Just Culture® and Collaborative High Reliability® developed by SG Collaborative Solutions, LLC. Implementation of these programs can strengthen safety culture in MAPS PSO and IRMS member organizations. You’ll hear about the role of healthcare leadership, safety/risk assessments and long-term sustainability through real-world examples. Join us for an impactful day of learning in a virtual environment!

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Following its 2022 Blueprint for Transformation report, the State of Illinois has worked with IHA, member hospitals and health systems, and other stakeholders to implement strategies that improve behavioral health care for Illinois children and adolescents. One of these strategies is the State’s BEACON Care Portal, a web-based platform designed to connect youth to appropriate behavioral health resources.

During this webinar, Illinois’ Chief Officer for Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation will share how the BEACON Care Portal works, its key features and how hospitals can use this tool to streamline behavioral health referrals, obtain consent and coordinate assessments for children and adolescents in need of services.

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Location: Virtual

Strategies to Support Patient Safety

Exclusively for MAPS PSO members, the second day of the MAPS Annual Culture of Safety Workshop will focus on key operational issues that strengthen safety culture and PSO protections. Expert presenters will take a deep dive into the value of event investigations, new healthcare legislation at the federal level and PSO workforce competency training. We’ll also announce this year’s Patient Safety Champion and Patient Safety Ambassador awardees. Member engagement and collaboration are hallmarks of the workshop: By sharing your challenges and ideas, together we can improve patient safety! 

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Location: Virtual

Navigating the ever-changing regulatory requirements for acute care hospitals is a critical and challenging task. With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continually updating Conditions of Participation (CoPs), it’s important that hospital leaders and compliance professionals have the most current information. The latest CoP manual for acute care hospitals, issued in April, spans over 475 pages, and includes detailed survey protocols, regulations and interpretative guidelines. 

To support your CoP compliance efforts, IHA is offering a comprehensive five-part webinar series led by nationally recognized Medcare CoP expert Nancy Ruzicka, B.S., RPh, MBA, MJ, CHC. The series will provide actionable compliance strategies and vital resources tailored to the State Operations Manual Appendix A. You’ll learn about recent revisions and understand the most frequently cited standards for Illinois acute care hospitals to enhance compliance.

The series will cover several topics, including:

• Frequently cited CoPs

  • Patient rights including a safe environment 

  • Physical environment 

  • Nursing services

  • Emergency preparedness

• Regulatory changes

  • Infection prevention program

  • Antibiotic stewardship program

  • Discharge planning

  • Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)

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Location: Virtual

Navigating the ever-changing regulatory requirements for acute care hospitals is a critical and challenging task. With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continually updating Conditions of Participation (CoPs), it’s important that hospital leaders and compliance professionals have the most current information. The latest CoP manual for acute care hospitals, issued in April, spans over 475 pages, and includes detailed survey protocols, regulations and interpretative guidelines. 

To support your CoP compliance efforts, IHA is offering a comprehensive five-part webinar series led by nationally recognized Medcare CoP expert Nancy Ruzicka, B.S., RPh, MBA, MJ, CHC. The series will provide actionable compliance strategies and vital resources tailored to the State Operations Manual Appendix A. You’ll learn about recent revisions and understand the most frequently cited standards for Illinois acute care hospitals to enhance compliance.

The series will cover several topics, including:

• Frequently cited CoPs

  • Patient rights including a safe environment 

  • Physical environment 

  • Nursing services

  • Emergency preparedness

• Regulatory changes

  • Infection prevention program

  • Antibiotic stewardship program

  • Discharge planning

  • Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)

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Location: Virtual

A critical mission of every hospital is to protect patient records and personally identifiable information. More than ever, this mission is being threatened by malicious cyber actors, both domestically and from abroad. In 2023, an unprecedented number of healthcare data breaches were reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with worldwide ransomware attacks nearly doubling from the year before. As these cyber disruptions pose an increasing challenge to optimal patient care and holistic support, hospitals and their affiliates are working diligently to strengthen their preparedness efforts, including heightened technical cyber security measures and participation in collaborative response and recovery exercises.

The 2024 IHA Emergency Preparedness Exercise will present a quickly developing cyber disruption scenario, testing immediate staff recognition and readiness, intermediate operational impact and response, and long-term recovery and resiliency. While the exercise will focus on cyber disruption and business continuity, it will also incorporate other elements of hospital emergency operations plans.

The exercise will be conducted in an interactive virtual environment including hospitals and partner agencies throughout Illinois. This format will allow IHA members to participate at the level that best suits their organizations, while connecting and learning from their peers. See our program flyer for more details.

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Location: Virtual

Navigating the ever-changing regulatory requirements for acute care hospitals is a critical and challenging task. With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continually updating Conditions of Participation (CoPs), it’s important that hospital leaders and compliance professionals have the most current information. The latest CoP manual for acute care hospitals, issued in April, spans over 475 pages, and includes detailed survey protocols, regulations and interpretative guidelines. 

To support your CoP compliance efforts, IHA is offering a comprehensive five-part webinar series led by nationally recognized Medcare CoP expert Nancy Ruzicka, B.S., RPh, MBA, MJ, CHC. The series will provide actionable compliance strategies and vital resources tailored to the State Operations Manual Appendix A. You’ll learn about recent revisions and understand the most frequently cited standards for Illinois acute care hospitals to enhance compliance.

The series will cover several topics, including:

• Frequently cited CoPs

  • Patient rights including a safe environment 

  • Physical environment 

  • Nursing services

  • Emergency preparedness

• Regulatory changes

  • Infection prevention program

  • Antibiotic stewardship program

  • Discharge planning

  • Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)

Learn More About This Event

Location: Virtual

Navigating the ever-changing regulatory requirements for acute care hospitals is a critical and challenging task. With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continually updating Conditions of Participation (CoPs), it’s important that hospital leaders and compliance professionals have the most current information. The latest CoP manual for acute care hospitals, issued in April, spans over 475 pages, and includes detailed survey protocols, regulations and interpretative guidelines. 

To support your CoP compliance efforts, IHA is offering a comprehensive five-part webinar series led by nationally recognized Medcare CoP expert Nancy Ruzicka, B.S., RPh, MBA, MJ, CHC. The series will provide actionable compliance strategies and vital resources tailored to the State Operations Manual Appendix A. You’ll learn about recent revisions and understand the most frequently cited standards for Illinois acute care hospitals to enhance compliance.

The series will cover several topics, including:

• Frequently cited CoPs

  • Patient rights including a safe environment 

  • Physical environment 

  • Nursing services

  • Emergency preparedness

• Regulatory changes

  • Infection prevention program

  • Antibiotic stewardship program

  • Discharge planning

  • Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)

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Location: Virtual

Webinar 4: Do Well While You Do Good: Strengthening Rural Hospital Boards
Sponsored by Optum

Hospital trustees are hospital leaders, aligned with the mission and committed to the organization’s success. Yet, management and governance roles must be kept separate to meet external requirements and achieve organizational goals. Learn more in this interactive session focused on best practices for a hospital board’s structure and responsibilities. You’ll also hear case studies of challenging situations hospital boards have faced, so your trustees can prepare for and provide guidance on any issue that arises.
 

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Location: Virtual

Navigating the ever-changing regulatory requirements for acute care hospitals is a critical and challenging task. With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continually updating Conditions of Participation (CoPs), it’s important that hospital leaders and compliance professionals have the most current information. The latest CoP manual for acute care hospitals, issued in April, spans over 475 pages, and includes detailed survey protocols, regulations and interpretative guidelines. 

To support your CoP compliance efforts, IHA is offering a comprehensive five-part webinar series led by nationally recognized Medcare CoP expert Nancy Ruzicka, B.S., RPh, MBA, MJ, CHC. The series will provide actionable compliance strategies and vital resources tailored to the State Operations Manual Appendix A. You’ll learn about recent revisions and understand the most frequently cited standards for Illinois acute care hospitals to enhance compliance.

The series will cover several topics, including:

• Frequently cited CoPs

  • Patient rights including a safe environment 

  • Physical environment 

  • Nursing services

  • Emergency preparedness

• Regulatory changes

  • Infection prevention program

  • Antibiotic stewardship program

  • Discharge planning

  • Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)

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