This meeting will provide inspiration for making change happen. Sign-up a team and join your BEACON colleagues for an information packed day of how to use stories as an improvement strategy -- deploying the right story at just the right time.

Plus, peer-to-peer learning featuring Stroke, Perinatal Improvement and Bedside Strategies.

Meeting is from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm at Washington Hospital Healthcare System. Registration & Coffee begins at 8:00 am.  Lunch will be provided.

Pricing Information:

Beacon Bay Area Hospitals - Single Ticket: $50 or Group Registration: $200 5 registrations for the price of 4
BEACON BAY AREA Charter Hospitals located in Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco and Marin counties and Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Salinas Valley Memorial, Doctors Medical Center, San Pablo, Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek, Kaiser Permanente Antioch.

Other Participants - $75
Group pricing is not available for hospitals outside of the BEACON Collaborative.

Refund Policy: Cancellation must be received in writing prior to October 19, 2010 to qualify for a refund minus a processing fee of $15.00.

Presentations

Secrets of Successful Story Telling John Paquette, writer and creative director for Insomnia Games

Stories and Practices of Humanity and Excellence in Health Care Dr. Alan Briskin, co-founder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative, consultant, artist and researcher

CAUTI: The Journey to Zero Bernie Revak, RN, MSN, CIC, Manager, Infection Control, ValleyCare Health System

Focus on Falls Astrid Block, RN, MSN, GCNS-BC, Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center

Aspiration and Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention Bing Tschai, RN, MSN and Pam Marshall, RN, CPHQ, Quality Department, California Pacific Medical Center

Stroke Certification, Key Success Factors, and Ouctomes, Part 1, Fern Cudlip, MSN, FNP, CNRN, Eden Medical Center
Storke Certification, Key Success Factors, and Outcomes, Part 2, Fern Cudlip, MSN, FNP, CNRN, Eden Medical Center

Stroke Certification, Key Success Factors, and Outcomes Jackie Phan, MSN, FNP, CNS, Kaiser Permanente Hayward and Fremont Medical Centers

Improving Stroke Outcomes through Neurointerventional Program Part 1 Ursula Tolley, RN Good Samaritan Hospital

Improving Stroke Outcomes through Neurointerventional Program Part 2, Ursula Tolley, RN, Good Samaritan Hospital

Using Teleneurologists to Provide Stroke Care in Community Hospitals  Wendy Bell, RN, Saint Louise Regional Hospital

Implementing Team STEPPS to Improve Communication in Labor and Delivery Gina Teeples, RN and Linda Baldwin, MPH, ValleyCare Health System 

Perinatal improvement resources: http://www.beaconcollaborative.org/resources.html (search keyword: perinatal)