past events

Presented by: Jeff Weinrach, PhDUNM Medical Group Lobo Quality Improvement Process (LQIP) Team Thursday, March 28: Jeff Weinrach, PhD, of the UNM Medical Group Lobo Quality Improvement Process (LQIP) Team, will guide a hands-on workshop looking at two quality tools used well in tandem – brain-writing and bubble-sorting – to facilitate the identification and prioritizing of process improvemen...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019. Raúl Torrez was sworn in as Bernalillo County District Attorney on January 1st, 2017. Raúl Torrez is a former federal prosecutor and senior adviser in President Obama’s Department of Justice. During his time in Washington, District Attorney Torrez served as a White House Fellow and Special Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Working for nea...
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CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Structured Feedback Presented by: Randy SimonsJanuary 17, 2019 UNM Continuing Education1634 University Blvd. NEAlbuquerque, NM 87102 Download Brochure Click Here
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Thursday, November 15: Allison Burnett, PharmD, PhC, CACP and Gail Hammer, CQA, CMQ/OE, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. We will describe our three-year journey towards meaningful reductions in hospital-acquired patient harm events using data to drive cycles of improvement. We will discuss our ground up approach of empowering frontline staff to develop and drive process improvement...
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Thursday, October 25: Janet Abernathy, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. The Bowtie Method is a visual risk assessment that can be used to describe causal relationships between threats, hazards, and consequences. It is a picture that incorporates actions that can prevent the hazard from occurring as well as actions that can be put in place to reduce the consequences if a hazard occu...
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Thursday, September 27: Joan Tafoya, Sandia National Laboratories. Quality principles are a solid foundation from which to be practicing effective leadership. Combining these with other critical leadership behaviors will enable you to leave a lasting legacy in your organization. The speaker will show how she has applied both quality and leadership principles and thinking to achieve results while m...
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Thursday, August 23: Katie Snapp, Sandia National Laboratories. When entering into interactions with internal customers, your goal is to develop a stong connection and a clear path to how you can add value. But that doesn't always happen, It takes some savvy, some awareness, and a bit of patience. An approach called the Collaborative Influencing Process can help you hit that taget for success with...
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Thursday, July 26, 2018, we'll be taking a break from our monthly seminar series and instead will have an evening networking event to relax and enjoy a happy hour mingle with colleagues and quality professionals. 5:00 - 7:30 pm Tomasita's Albuquerque 4949 Pan American Freeway Northeast Albuquerque, NM 87109 Reservations are requested by Wednesday, July 25, 2018 $10 Non-Members AQN Members F...
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Thursday, June 21: Lee Butler, Quality Director/Customer Relations Manager, Don Chalmers Ford. Attendees will learn how Chalmers Ford used a systems and process focus to increase performance and achieve the 2016 Malcolm Baldrige award. These systems helped the organization continue to perform at a high level during the transition to new leadership after the passing of their founder Don Chalmers in...
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