Learning How to Cross the Quality Chasm:
A National Leadership Seminar
March 6-7, 2006
Marriot San Mateo / San Francisco Airport Hotel
1770 South Amphlett Blvd., San Mateo, California

Presentations covered the new Institute of Medicine Committee recommendations on applying Crossing the Quality Chasm in mental and substance use treatment, AND ways to implement them: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and download these documents. To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here

All presentations are copyright 2006 by their authors, with all rights reserved.

• Welcome (145 KBytes)

• Peter C. Brown: IOM Challenges and Opportunities (46 KBytes)

• Alden Doolittle: The IOM Report & Rules for Walking on Fire (51 KBytes)

• Constance Weisner: Overarching Recommendation re. Crossing the Quality Chasm (96 KBytes)

• Neal Adams: Meeting the Challenge: QI Strategies for MH Systems Transformation (145 KBytes)

• Neil Solomon: Building Momentum For Change: Lessons From Successful Collaboratives (517 KBytes)

• Keith Humphreys: Promoting Quality Healthcare in the Department of Veterans Affairs (33 KBytes)

• Alden Doolittle and Peter C. Brown: A Conversation on Needs and Opportunities (101 KBytes)

• Stuart Buttlaire: Integrating and Integrating and Coordinating Behavioral Coordinating Behavioral Healthcare In An HMO Healthcare In An HMO (610 KBytes)

• Kathy Reynolds: Implementing the IOM Report Locally – A Performance Improvement Approach (120 KBytes)

• Alden Doolittle: Why Change Fails and Seven Leadership Points (284 KBytes)

Sponsored by The Institute for Behavioral Healthcare Improvement.
Co-hosted by the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.

Faculty included nationally recognized speakers and senior leaders.

NOTE: Required Reading

1. “The Bell Curve” by Atul Gawande from The New Yorker, December 6, 2004, http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?041206fa_fact

2. The IOM Report “Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions: Quality Chasm Series” http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3809/19405/30836.aspx

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