LOVELAND, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new two-day workshop designed to help healthcare organizations accelerate on the path to high performance will soon be available from two recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Poudre Valley Health System, a 2008 recipient, and the Monfort Institute, part of 2004 recipient Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado, will offer the workshop on March 10-11 and again on June 9-10, 2011 in Loveland, Colorado.
“The High Performance Healthcare workshop is packed with new insights from the Monfort Institute’s research on Baldrige Award recipients and best practices from Poudre Valley Health System,” said Priscilla Nuwash, MBA, CLM, President of Poudre Valley’s Center for Performance Excellence. “This hands-on experience will give participants the essentials they need for a successful journey to performance excellence. It will also give those interested in the Baldrige Award process a jump start.”
Topics covered in the workshop include the following:
- Leading a sustainable organizational transformation
- Developing a focused strategy and strategic management process
- Understanding stakeholders’ needs and building relationships
- Developing a compelling directive
- Enabling, empowering, and engaging your people
- Developing a measurement system and scorecard
- Comprehensive organizational performance analysis and review
- Developing and deploying action plans
A highlight will be a site visit to Poudre Valley’s state-of-the-art Medical Center of the Rockies and a question-and-answer session with Rulon F. Stacey, PhD, FACHE, President/CEO of Poudre Valley Health System and Chair of the College of American Healthcare Executives.
John Latham, PhD, Director of the Monfort Institute, and expert in leadership and organizational excellence, will lead the workshop along with Priscilla Nuwash and others at Poudre Valley Health System and the Monfort Institute.
To learn more contact the Monfort Institute at 970-351-2632 or visit the website at www.MonfortInstitute.org/STP_HC_Main.html. The cost for the two-day workshop is $1,995 per person. An early-booking rate is available at $1,795 per person.
About the Center for Performance Excellence at PVHS
The Center for Performance Excellence is part of Poudre Valley Health System — the 2008 Recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Health Care. From the unique perspective of a Baldrige Award Recipient and with all the resources that earned PVHS the nation’s top quality award, the Center for Performance Excellence provides consulting, coaching, and presentation services to organizations in pursuit of performance excellence.
About the Monfort Institute
The Monfort Institute is part of the Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado – the first and only business program to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (2004). As a member of the Baldrige Award Recipients Consortium the Institute collaborates with other recipients to continue the journey to even higher performance. Participants in the Institute’s workshops gain key insights from research amassed on these high-performing organizations and are able to apply nationally-recognized best practices to their organizations. Visit www.MonfortInstitute.org.