Registration Now Open for IMQ’s 2006 PreCALS Conference, April 6-7 in Garden Grove
[Posted 02/23/06]

Medical staff teams are encouraged to attend the Institute for Medical Quality’s PreCALS conference, April 6-7 at the Crowne Plaza Anaheim Resort in Garden Grove. The PreCALS program is a comprehensive introduction to California’s tripartite hospital accreditation and licensure survey process.

Attendees will learn about:

• The new unannounced consolidated JCAHO/IMQ/DHS survey process, with a focus on the systemic survey approach
• Patient and system tracer methodology, including JCAHO’s National Patient Safety Goals
• JCAHO’s 2006 standards, including those related to performance improvement, peer review, and credentialing
• Current Title 22 survey issues
• Ideas and suggestions for achieving continuous survey readiness

The program is of value to all medical staff leaders preparing for the integrated unannounced survey in 2006. Medical staff teams (chiefs of staff, committee chairs, quality-management personnel, and medical staff directors and coordinators) are encouraged to attend.

Click here for registration information.

Contact: Leslie Anne Iacopi, 415/882-5167 or liacopi@imq.org.