The Intersection of Quality, Governance, and Compliance
Date: Monday, October 22, 2007
Time: 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location: GNYHA Conference Center, 555 West 57th Street, 15th Floor
This briefing, hosted by GNYHA, will feature NYS Medicaid Inspector General Jim Sheehan; David Hoffman of David Hoffman and Associates; and Michael Peregrine of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. As government agencies and boards of directors pay increasing attention to health care quality and associated regulatory compliance, providers are seeking to integrate quality into their compliance programs, which is especially good practice in the NY region given Mr. Sheehan's interest in quality and governance as important aspects of providers' mandatory compliance programs. For more information, contact Deborah Brown (brown@gnyha.org); to register, contact Asali Daniel (adaniel@gnyha.org), at GNYHA.

Implementing Best Practices to Save More Lives
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Time: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location: Adams Mark Hotel, 120 Church Street, Buffalo, NY
The United Network for Organ Sharing is sponsoring this program, which is geared toward critical care nurses and hospital administrators in NYS and Vermont and is intended to identify best practices in order to increase organ donation. NYS Commissioner of Health Richard Daines, M.D., recently sent a letter to hospital administrators encouraging them to send staff to the program, and the NYS Department of Health, through a grant to the New York Alliance for Donation, is paying for the cost of registration for conference attendees. For more information, contact the New York Organ Donor Network at (646) 291-4444. To register online (by Oct. 18, 2007), visit www.regonline.com/reg9collab.