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Educational Events Monthly Brown Bags The quality brownbag sessions will continue into 2011 (4th Thursday every month except for November and December on 3rd Thursday). We haven’t come near our attendance goal of 100 per month, averaging 30 attendees. Although we have not met our attendance volume goal, we have been meeting our “balanced participation” goals across multiple dimensions: • Rural vs Urban • Healthcare System, Hospital, Clinic, Insurance, etc. • Quality Professional vs.Clinician wanting to develop Quality as a Core Competence. The brownbag “classroom” is provided by Winona State as part of the HealthForce Minnesota initiative, our team-mate in this effort to spread quality education throughout the region. Access the classroom at https://breeze5.metnet.edu/hcq with the slides posted each month on the HealthForce web site at http://www.healthforceminnesota.org/pages/Programs/courses.html. We are now planning the content for the brownbag sessions in 2011 and 2012 and we encourage your interest in attending or perhaps being a presenter in your area of expertise! Contact Skip at SkipValusek@comcast.net. Upcoming Events: Click here to download a comprehensive list of upcoming regional Quality Education Events (Excel file). Updated frequently!   MN Council for Quality MHQP has formally joined the Minnesota Council for Quality as a sponsoring organization. As such, MHQP members are able to access all benefits as if they were members themselves of the MN Council for Quality. Who is the Minnesota Council for Quality? This organization is a non-profit corporation that advances improvement and performance excellence within organizations, individuals, and communities. The Council helps leaders identify strengths and improvement opportunities and builds networks that bring information, resources, knowledge, and best practices to organizations desiring to improve. The Council has not, to date, had a strong presence in health care so partnering with MHQP gives them an opportunity to enlarge their scope in the quality arena. To check out future Council quality continuing education, view their Improvement Events page http://www.councilforquality.org/improve_events.cfm?search=1.   Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS) MHQP recommends the 2011 patient safety educational activities sponsored by the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety. Information about these can be accessed through their Web site's Calender page http://www.mnpatientsafety.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=38.   Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) ICSI sponsors local and national conferences on quality topics. One of the best is the ICSI Colloquium in May which attracts attendees from all over the world. Details about this year's conference can be accessed on the ICSI website: http://www.icsi.org/calendar/.   Education Event questions can be directed to Skip Valusek at SkipValusek@comcast.net.