<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Karri Benjamin <karri@businessenergetix.com> <br>Date:11/12/2014 6:04 AM (GMT-08:00) <br>To: 'Sara Gardner-Smith' <sara.gardnersmith@hotmail.com> <br>Subject: IHI West Coast Call for Proposals <br><br><div class="WordSection1"><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Hello Sara,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Would you mind bumping this out to your OPHA list serv? Hopefully this one is enough advance notice!! Thanks for your help. Hope you are doing amazing!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">~K<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The West Coast Region of the <a href="http://www.ihi.org/education/ihiopenschool/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Institute</a><a href="http://www.ihi.org/education/ihiopenschool/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"> for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School </a>and the <a href="http://www.psuohsuihi.org/" target="_blank">PSU & OHSU IHI Open School Chapter </a>are conducting a <a href="https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ehukasMWfyXcU2p" target="_blank">call-for-proposals for the breakout sessions</a> at the first IHI Open School West Coast Conference (WCC) on <span class="aqj">Saturday, April 18th, 2015</span>, in Portland, Oregon. The conference begins on <span class="aqj">Friday, April 17th</span> and breakout session speakers are welcome to attend both days. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The theme of the WCC is <em><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Interprofessionalism: Improvement, Safety, System Design, and Leadership</span></b></em>. Each breakout session will be categorized and focused on one of these topics.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The WCC aims to educate and empower learners to be interprofessional collaborators with each other, their patients, their communities, and their health systems by:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Disseminating evidence-based methods of interprofessional (two or more professions collaborating on a project) team-based care that enhance patient safety.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Exploring system redesign and opportunities for multiple sectors and professions to interface to design a health services delivery system capable of achieving the Triple Aim.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Spreading health systems improvement best-practices from interprofessional and student-led improvement projects.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SUBMISSION DEADLINE</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">: <span class="aqj">Monday, December 15th, 2014 @ 5:00 p.m. PDT</span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><b><u><span style="color:black">PROPOSAL DETAILS </span></u></b><span style="color:black">click<b> </b><a href="http://www.psuohsuihi.org/breakout-session-call-for-proposals/" target="_blank"><b>here.</b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><b><u><span style="color:black">PROPOSAL SUBMISSION</span></u><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black">click<b> </b></span><a href="https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ehukasMWfyXcU2p" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">here</span></b></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><b><u>GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION </u></b>click<b> </b><a href="http://www.psuohsuihi.org/general-information/" target="_blank">here.</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>OTHER QUESTIONS:</u></b> <a href="mailto:wc.ihi.openschool@gmail.com" target="_blank">wc.ihi.openschool@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">Karri Benjamin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">503-341-2877<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Portland State University</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.portlandopenschool.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">President: the PSU & OHSU IHI-OS Chapter</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.psuohsuihi.org/"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="240" height="56" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:_com_android_email_attachmentprovider_1_558_RAW@sec.galaxytab" alt="IHI Logo high quality sm 4 email"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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