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Dr. Carolyn Clancy Gives Picker Lecture 
Dr. Carolyn Clancy, the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which won the Picker Award for
Excellence® in 2008, gave the Picker Lecture at Planetree's annual Conference in Denver, Colo., on Oct. 7.
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Picker Lecture on the Picker Institute Web site later this month. | | |
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Challenge Grant Spotlights
January 2011
GME Spotlight on Rhode Island Hospital
December 2010
GME Spotlight on
Medical College
of Georgia
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Picker Institute
Always Event™
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2011/2012 Always Event™ Challenge Grant proposals have been received and are in the process of being reviewed.
Grant recipients will be announced on March 7, 2011.
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Greetings!
We're delighted to introduce our second newsletter, filled with exciting news about some of Picker Institute's most important programs and updates on many of our ongoing initiatives, including the annual Picker Awards for Excellence®, Always Event™, the Graduate Medical Education Challenge grant Program, the Long-Term Care Improvement Guide, and more.
We hope you enjoy catching up with what we and our partners are doing to keep the patient in the center of the healthcare picture, and we welcome your suggestions as to how we can deliver more of the information YOU want to have.
Thank you, and best wishes for 2011! |
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Winners of 2010 Picker Awards
Honored in Orlando
The winners of the 2010 Picker Awards include, above from left, Pauo Cleary,
Dr. Arnold Gold and Dr. Atul Gawande. | |
The winners of the 2010 Picker Awards for Excellence® in the Advancement of Patient-Centered Care were honored before a standing-room-only crowd at IHI's 22nd annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care on Wednesday, Dec. 8, in Orlando, Fla.
This year's winners were Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., the dean of the Yale School of Public Health, who was cited for his decades of support for and groundbreaking research in patient-centered care; Dr. Atul Gawande, for his outstanding work in highlighting the importance of patient-centered care; and Dr. Arnold P. Gold, cofounder of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, who was honored for lifetime achievement in his mission to preserve the tradition of the caring doctor and the need for humanism in medicine.
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2011/2012 Graduate Medical Education RFP | |
Request for Proposal Now Available
The Picker Institute/Gold Foundation Graduate Medical Education Challenge Grant Program is seeking proposals that illustrate specific interventions and innovations in graduate medical education programs that facilitate the development of best practices regarding patient-centered healthcare and/or humanism in medicine.
2011/2012 GME Challenge Grant RFP
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Deadline for Picker Award for Excellence
Nominations is Monday, Feb. 8 | | Identifying and promoting best practices that lead to the advancement of patient-centered care in the United States is an important element of the Picker Institute mission. The Picker Awards recognize people and organizations who have made significant contributions to achieving thie goal, and highlight them as role models for others in the healthcare field.
The Picker Awards for Excellence are made annually to an individual(s) and/or an organization(s) in recognition of outstanding contributions to improving the lives of patients by making interactions with the healthcare system less stressful and more comfortable.
Click here for the online nomination form.
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This Month's Choice from
Our 'Conversations' Series | |
 "Community matters. There's always a tension between maximizing revenues and meeting the needs of the community. In the end, all medicine--like all politics--is local. The communities that have healthcare systems, rather than fragments of care, are getting better results at lower costs."
-- Dr. Atul Gawande, 2010 Picker Award Winner
One of the ways Picker Institute supports patient-centered care is by recognizing people in healthcare who have made significant contributions to achieving patient-centered care worldwide. Conversations with Leaders in the Field of Patient-Centered Care is a regular feature that highlights people who have promoted patient-centered care in their work or through their organizations.
Click here to continue the Conversation with Dr. Atul Gawande.
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| Picker-Planetree Long-Term Care Improvement Guide Gets Rave Reviews | 
"I became so enthused after reading the document that I came into work on a Sunday just to discuss resident-centered care with weekend staff!"
-- Kendra Spaulding, Social Services Manager,
E. Dene Moore Care Center
"There is a ton of information here and it is based on what administrators like -- a philosophy, but more importantly, what are the things I can do."
-- Orlando Bisbano, Administrator, Orchard View Manor The Long-Term Care Improvement Guide, published by Picker and Planetree, made its debut at the LTC Leadership Summit that preceded Planetree's annual conference in Denver, Colo., on Oct. 5, 2010. A follow-up to the phenomenally successful Patient-Centered Care Improvement Guide published by Picker and Planetree in the fall of 2008, the LTC Guide is a compilation of best practices culled from resident-centered care facilities ranging from stand-alone nursing homes to assisted or independent living.
Click here to download the LTC Improvement Guide. Click here to visit the Interactive LTC Improvement Guide Web site. |
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