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THE CONNECTICUT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AWARD PARTNERSHIP, INC. CONNECTICUT’S MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD FOR PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE 21ST Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation
Friday, November 7, 2008
Water's Edge Resort Westbrook, Connecticut Directions to Water's Edge Resort I-95 North, exit 65 to route 153 South to route 1 East, ½ mile to stone sign I-91 South to route 9 South, exit 153 South to route 1 East, ½ mile to stone entrance sign
CONNECTICUT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AWARD PARTNERSHIP, INC.
2008 Sponsors
Basement Systems, Inc. Cartus, Inc. Connecticut Department of Labor Honeywell Life Safety Mr. ComputerHead On Site Gas Systems Pfizer, Inc. Pratt & Whitney Robinson & Cole, LLP TRUMPF MORNING PROGRAM
8:45 – 9:15 Continental Breakfast and Registration. All participants will receive the 13th Annual CQIA benchmarking book, “2008 Connecticut Best Practices” with all 2008 winning CQIA Innovation Prize applications and contact information.
9:15 – 9:25 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc. Welcome Larry Janesky, President Basement Systems, Inc Seymour
9:30 - 9:45 Yale University (hosted by BSI) New Haven Professor Diana E.E. Kleiner Principal Investigator, Open Yale Courses Dunham Professor of History of Art & Classics “Yale Opens its Classrooms to the World”
9:50 – 10:05 Break
10:05 – 10:20 Pfizer Global Research & Development New London Dr. June Rae Merwin Senior Director, Worldwide Clinical Research Operations “The 24-Hour Challenge”
10:25 – 11:00 Insurity, Inc. Hartford Jim Hatch Chief Tactical Officer 2007 & 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner, 2008 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Lead Examiner “What are the examiners really looking for?”
11:05 – 11:55 Mercy Health System Janesville, Wisconsin 2007 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient – Health Care Kathy Harris Vice President Human Resources and Organizational Development “Organizational Transformation – Using the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence” Mercy Health System (MHS) is a vertically integrated health system that provides services to residents of southern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. Hospital based services(50%) include three hospitals; clinic based services (34%) include 285 physicians employed at 38 community clinics in six counties; post acute care/retail (4%)include subacute care services, long-term care services, home health services, a community-based residential facility with hospice beds, a “health mall”, and six retail pharmacies; as well as an insurance company. Insurance products (12%) include an HMO, PSO (Point-of-Service) products, Medicaid HMO, and Medicare supplement plans. Results for community acquired pneumonia mortality rates have decreased steadily since 2003, with current results at 1.2% -- significantly below the benchmark of 4.0%. MHS received the 2006 American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) “Best Employers for Workers Over Age 50” award and was named one of the “100 Best Companies for Which to Work” by Working Mother magazine. In addition, in 2007, MHS was named one of the “100 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces.”
AFTERNOON PROGRAM
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch and Networking. Gold and platinum CQIA Innovation Prize winners will host assigned luncheon tables for conversation and display of services and products. No more than one person from any organization may sit at a particular gold or platinum CIP winner’s table!
1:35 – 1:50 GraphLogic Inc. Branford June Gold, President “Agile development in the clouds: How a vision from the 80’s coalesced into a leading solution in computing’s hottest space”
1:55 – 2:10 Featured Speaker On Site Gas Systems Oxygen and Nitrogen Generators Newington, CT Guy Hatch, CEO “Saving Lives on the Battlefield with Portable Oxygen Generation”
2:15 – 2:25 Break
2:25 – 3:50 Professionally photographed presentation of individual CQIA Innovation Prize plaques preceded by 30/60 second description of each winning CQIA Innovation Prize by its recipient.
3:50 – 4:00 Closing remarks
REGISTRATION Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Connecticut’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 21st Annual Conference on Quality and Innovation Friday, November 7, 2008 8:45 AM to 4 PM Water’s Edge Resort in Westbrook, Connecticut
Registration fee covers continental breakfast, breaks, seated lunch, 2008 Connecticut Best Practices book and 2008 Baldrige Award Criteria
_____ Please register me for the Conference. Attached is a check (no purchase orders) made payable to Connecticut Quality Improvement Award for $265 if received by October 31. ($290 after October 31). For five associates, just $1200 if received before October 31. Deeper discounts for larger groups.
_____ Please register me for the Conference and bill my MasterCard, VISA or American express card to $265 if received before October 31. After October 31, $290. For five associates received before October 31, just $1200. Deeper discounts for larger groups.
FOR EACH PERSON ATTENDING
Name________________________________________________________
Title_________________________________________________________
Organization___________________________________________________
Street Address__________________________ City_________________
Telephone____________________ e-mail___________________________
Credit card number___________________________ Expiration Date_____
Mail to Connecticut Quality Improvement Award, PO 1396, Stamford, CT 06904-1396. web site: www.ctqualityaward.org The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not for profit Connecticut organization receives no funds from either state or Federal government. All funding comes from Sponsors, application fees and conference registration. 2008 CQIA Innovation Prize Recipients
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