Pat Teske, RN, MHA, Beacon Improvement Advisor, took BEACON's story of "Saving One Life at a Time" to Illinois for the Joint Commission and Join Commission Resources Annual Conference on Quality and Patient Safety, September 14, 2009. Pat described how BEACON brings together individuals from different healthcare facilities to share success stories and challenges in a non-threatening environment. She highlighted the positive results participants in BEACON have realized by sharing best practices.

The audience response was very positive and appreciative of the current, cutting edge information presented at the conference. Conference sponsors agreed that spreading the word about BEACON's successful efforts will help energize the leadership of the future by providing ideas to explore, enhance and energize their ability to improve quality, reduce errors, contain costs, increase productivity, strengthen execution and build leadership teams.

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