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Sunday, October 12, 2014

HEALTHCARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT -CERTIFICATE COURSE



Present to you this dedicated
CERTIFICATE COURSE ON HEALTHCARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Program overview:

While quality is a common denominator and benchmark across products and services it acquires a new dimension and criticality in health care delivery in view of its direct impact on human lives and well being.

Health care providers need to constantly measure their standards in terms of internal processes and service quality to ensure that the quality of health care delivery remains right on top and is not compromised in any way.

Maintaining high standards in healthcare delivery is not only an ethical commitment but also a hard marketplace reality, patients and their families today are far more aware of their rights, privileges, availability of healthcare solutions, costing and so on than in the past and demand value for their money.

Healthcare is increasingly viewed as a service like any other and comparative evaluation is the order of the day. The Certificate Program in Healthcare Quality Management combines the theoretic and practical aspects of quality at every level of healthcare delivery and personnel involved.

The Program is being brought to you by The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, the academic wing of Sankara Nethralaya a name that is today synonymous across the country with high quality eye care services, The AHPI Institute of Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety, led by Dr Girdhar J Gyani, the acknowledged father of Healthcare Quality in India and founder of the NABH and ACME Consulting, the largest Healthcare Quality Consulting Organisation in India. 

Target Participants:

The Course has been specially tailored for healthcare professionals, both clinical and managerial including:
·         Quality managers... and all managers with a passion for quality! Patient Safety and Risk Management Managers
·         Staff involved in the NABH, NABL, JCI and other Accreditation processes
·         Clinical Directors and Heads of Departments
·         Physicians and Surgeons
·         Heads of Nursing and other Senior Nurses
·         Clinical Research Managers
·         Healthcare Informatics and IT Professionals
·         Facilities, Estates and Support Services Managers
·         Radiographers, Laboratory, Pharmacy and Scientific Staff
·         THIS CERTIFICATE COURSE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
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·         The Sankara Nethralaya Academy (TSNA):
·         The Sankara Nethralaya Academy (a unit of Medical Research Foundation, Chennai) is a forerunner and leader in the area of imparting healthcare and health management technology and draws its strength from its parent organizations, Sankara Nethralaya, the Medical Research Foundation and Vision Research Foundation, a State of the Art Research Facility.
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·         Sankara Nethralaya, meaning “The Temple of the Eye”, is a leading super specialty institution for ophthalmic care in India and was founded in 1978 as a clinical arm of the Medical Research Foundation; it is a charitable, not-for-profit institution, located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Sankara Nethralaya has grown tremendously since its inception— thanks to the unconditional and generous support received from all quarters of society — and has gained international excellence for its high quality and affordable eye care services. Its goals include providing quality ophthalmic care at affordable costs to paying patients, free eye care to indigent patients, high level teaching and training initiatives to create an army of capable eye care professionals to combat blindness affecting the population of India.  Today, the institute has over 90 eye care professionals examining around 1,500 patients and performing around 125 surgeries every day.
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·         The objective of the Sankara Nethralaya Academy is to create highly knowledgeable and skilled professionals conversant with every area of healthcare and hospital management, to meet the increasing demand for competent professionals in this segment.
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·         The AHPI Institute of Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety
·         The AHPI Institute of Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety is a subsidiary of the Association of Healthcare Providers (India) that supports the Healthcare Sector through competency based certification programs.
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·         The Association of Healthcare Providers (India), AHPI represents the vast majority of healthcare providers in India. It is registered under Society Registration ACT- 1860 as “not for profit” organization. It educates to its members and at the same time, advocates with the government, regulatory bodies and other stake holders on issues, which have bearing on enabling its member organizations in delivering of Universal Health Coverage to the community at large.
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·         AHPI’s vision is to have healthy India, encompassing society,   community and common man at grass root. AHPI strongly believes that the PATIENT as key stake holder needs to play important role in improving delivery of healthcare services. AHPI provides opportunity to patients and associates in giving objective feedback through portal and other similar avenues. AHPI undertakes advocacy for healthcare reforms, infrastructural, taxation, tariff and issues relating to the health insurance. AHPI believes in building capacity in Indian health systems with focus on safety and affordability.
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·         The AHPI Healthcare Certification Centre is other subsidiary body of AHPI, which develops standards for patient safety and quality of care for different categories of healthcare organizations and certifies the compliance to these standards as third party.
·         ACME Consulting, Chennai:
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·         ACME Consulting is today India’s leading Healthcare Quality Consulting Organization. Since its inception in 1996 the Organisation has worked with over 350 hospitals across the country, both in the Private and Government Sectors, to help them establish basic operating systems and improve their quality of services. The team comprises over 35 in-house healthcare professionals and is acknowledged as the largest in the country today. It comprises Quality Experts, Hospital trained Architects, Planners, Administrators, Project Managers, Equipment Specialists and HR Professionals, all being required today for setting up and operating large, professionally run Hospital, as per the best of quality requirements.
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·         ACME’s team of healthcare quality professionals have been providing training programs for over a decade at Hospitals to improve their functioning and aspire for meeting national and international Quality Certifications and Accreditations like the NABH, NABL, JCI and the ISO 9001. Some of the leading Hospitals worked with recently include the Apollo Hospitals at Chennai, Madurai, Vellore, Goa & Mysore, Sankara Netralaya, Adyar Cancer Institute, CHILDS Trust Hospital, Dr. Mehta’s Hospital, MIOT Hospital and the Vijaya Group of Hospitals, at Chennai, Regional Cancer Center, PRS Hospital, PVS Hospital. Elite Hospital and Holy Cross Hospital in Kerala, the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bangalore Hospital and the Mallya Hospital in Bangalore, the Indo American Cancer Hospital and Continental Hospital at Hyderabad, the Peerless and Belleview Hospitals, National Neurosciences Centre and Institute of Neuroscience at Kolkata besides Medical College hospitals like SRM Medical College Hospital at Chennai, SS Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital at Davengare  RL Jalappa Medical College Hospital at Kolar, Father Muller Medical College Hospital at Mangalore and Rajarajeswari Medical College at Bangalore.
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·         ACME Consulting has also worked extensively with Government Hospitals having assisted over 125 Government Hospitals across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh in quality improvement projects.
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·         ACME is the only Quality Council of India approved Consulting Organization for NABH in South India and the highest technically rated Consultancy by the National Rural Health Mission, Government of India.


·         For More Details and Registrations contact:

Mr A Mahalingam
Assistant Registrar
The Sankara Nethralaya Academy
Phone : 4908 6000 (10 am – 5pm)
Mobile : 0 97104 85295 .
Fax No : 044 2825 4180
eMail : mahali@snmail.org / snacademy@snmail.org
Web: www.thesnacademy.ac.in / www.sankaranethralaya.org


Sunday, September 14, 2014

Certificate Course in Hospital Management - The Sankara Nethralaya Academy




Senior healthcare administration professionals shower praise on Sankara Nethralaya Academy’s “Certificate Course in Hospital Management (CCHM)”

 

The event was conducted to present Certificates to the sixth batch of The participants of this course belonging to mid and senior level management positions from a broad spectrum of health care institutions ranging from single specialty to multi-specialty hospitals found the course to be of great relevance to their vocation in terms of enhancing their skill sets, equipping them to handle direct and related healthcare issues and to organize their departments much better.

While the course won overall praise for its holistic approach to hospital management, in-depth, wide and well researched content and professional levels of tutoring by the faculty, TSNA staff members won praise and admiration for their efforts in making the entire learning experience very pleasant and memorable.

The certification awarding ceremony of the 12 weekend certificate program in Hospital Management conducted by the Sankara Nethralaya academy, an education wing of the Sankara Nethralaya, a unit of Medical Research Foundation was conducted successfully on 13.09.2014 at Sankara Nethralaya main campus, College road, Chennai 6.

 

On their successful completion of their course the students had the good fortune of having an interactive session with the Founder & Chairman Emeritus of Sankara Nethralaya & the SN Academy Padma Bhushan Dr SS Badrinath, they shared their experiences with him and received their certificates from him.

 

The Senior Management Executives from premium health care institutions like Vhasantha Hospital and Wellness Research Center,Tiruvannamalai,Apollo Hospitals, Chennai

byantra Technologies,Pvt Ltd,Medicare TPA services (I) Pvt. Ltd,Govt Hospitals,Tirupattur,Lions Cancer Hospital,Eagle Medical Systems, PVT Ltd,Krishna Eye & ENT Hospital,Vipul Med Corp TPA, Pvt Ltd,Venkateswara Hospitals,Agada Diabetes Care,SM Consortium, Chennai

RG Eye care, Chennai,Sinus & Nose Hospital,,Narayana Dental College, Andra Pradesh other renowned Healthcare institutions who participated in this weekend Certificate Course in Hospital management shared their feedback about this session most enthusiastically.

 

Prof S Ramani – Principal of the academy informed that our academy also in the process of introducing few new programs with Madras University collaborations.

 

Mr A Mahalingam – The Program Director and Assistant Registrar of the Sankara Nethralaya Academy take this opportunity to wish the participants for their cooperation and successful completion and also thanked the candidates sponsored organization and highly commented about our dedicated management faculty members for their excellent support to run this course very successful and he also announced that the next batch of this program( 8th batch) to be commencing from 4th October 2014, for details & registrations www.thesnacademy.ac.in to be visited.

 

Mr A Mahalingam also highlighted the importance of Quality Assurance in healthcare management and told that Academy will be launching another 12 weekend - Certificate Course in Healthcare Quality Management in collaboration with AHPI (Association of Healthcare Providers –India), New Delhi  and ACME Consulting Ltd, Chennai

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

The Sankara Nethralaya Academy’s 2days Nationa Seminar on Emerging Trends in Hospital Administration Dates: 09 & 10th May 2014


The Sankara Nethralaya Academy (TSNA)

(A Unit of Medical Research Foundation)
 
Phone: 044 4908 6000                         Fax No: 044 2825 4180

The Sankara Nethralaya Academy’s

2day Topical Seminar

On

“Emerging Trends in Hospital Administration”

Dates: 09 & 10th May 2014

Venue:            Sri. V.D. Swami Auditorium, Sri. T.S. Santhanam floor,

 KNBIRVO Block, Sankara Nethralaya Main Campus

No 18, College Road, Chennai – 600 006

 

About us:

 

The Sankara Nethralaya Academy (a unit of Medical Research Foundation, Chennai) is a forerunner and leader in the area of imparting healthcare and health management technology and draws its strength from its parent organizations, Sankara Nethralaya, the Medical Research Foundation and Vision Research Foundation, a State of the Art Research Facility.

 

Sankara Nethralaya, meaning “The Temple of the Eye”, is a leading super specialty institution for ophthalmic care in India and was founded in 1978 as a clinical arm of the Medical Research Foundation; it is a charitable, not-for-profit institution, located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Sankara Nethralaya has grown tremendously since its inception— thanks to the unconditional and generous support received from all quarters of society — and has gained international excellence for its high quality and affordable eye care services. Its goals include providing quality ophthalmic care at affordable costs to paying patients, free eye care to indigent patients, high level teaching and training initiatives to create an army of capable eye care professionals to combat blindness affecting the population of India.  Today, the institute has over 90 eye care professionals examining around 1,500 patients and performing around 125 surgeries every day.

 

The objective of the Sankara Nethralaya Academy is to create highly knowledgeable and skilled professionals conversant with every area of healthcare and hospital management, to meet the increasing demand for competent professionals in this segment.

 

Healthcare management is emerging as a boom industry, thanks to myriad factors like increasing health awareness among the general public, a disturbing increase in lifestyle and environment related ailments and debilities and the recent entry of corporate entities into the domain of healthcare.

 

About the Seminar “Emerging Trends in Hospital Administration’’:

We are sure you would agree with us that a well conducted seminar is a great way to enhance the understanding and scope of any subject or field of activity among both the target audience and the general public. Seminars provide the ideal platform for a vibrant exchange of ideas, experiences and expertise and the much needed real time learning through reviews from a cross section of people.

The overwhelming response that we received for the recent seminars conducted in the critical areas of Healthcare Management like HR in Healthcare, Customer Care in Hospitals, Materials Management for Hospitals, Quality Accreditations for healthcare providers, Impact of Law on Healthcare Delivery and the resultant learning have come as a major boost and encouragement to us to conduct this highly topical and relevant seminar on Emerging Trends in Hospital Administration’’ on 9 & 10th of May 2014

An Overview:

 

Emerging Trends in Hospital Administration’’ is a two-day conference that would bring together senior level healthcare experts from various regions to share their thoughts, observations and steps taken by them to improve patient flow and enhance safety and work flow processes leading to a great patient experience.

 

The Seminar will also focus on successful healthcare strategies, proven patient-care techniques, quality standardization tips, new hospital management trends and an overall road map to an effective healthcare system.

 

The Seminar will thus bring a complete set of proven solutions that would help healthcare providers enhance the quality of service and productivity of their hospital.

 

This highly interactive seminar would witness in-depth presentations on the following topics by experts and industry leaders from across the country.

 

Proposed Topics:

 

·         Empowering the internal customers through continuous teaching training and development in organizations.

·         Assessing ever-changing role and responsibilities of a hospital CEO.

·         Healthcare Disaster Management

·         Using lean management to reduce waste and improve efficiencies of hospitals.

·         Accreditations for Hospitals & Retaining quality advantage - post accreditation.

·         Revenue cycle management excellence - easily improving bottom-line.

·         Discussing pros and cons of outsourcing facilities management in healthcare organizations.

·         Clean It… Then Prove It! Cleaning control as a tool to reduce hospital acquired infections.

·         Innovations in Health Insurance.

·         Enhancing patient-centered care by increasing speed of patient service.

·         Implementing quality Improvement tools and strategies within your organization.

·         Do Hospitals need to build themselves as a “Brand”? How to build a brand in Regional and Global Healthcare?

·         Transforming Healthcare Delivery through Information & Communication technology.

·         Medico Legal Issues in Healthcare Management.

·         Panel Discussion on “’Emerging Trends in Hospital Administration’’.

 

Proposed Speakers (Confirmation awaiting for a few faculty):

 

Ms Akila Ganesan
Senior General Manager – Sankara Nethralaya
Registrar – The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, Chennai
Dr John Punnose – Management Consultant, Mentor & CEO – Hospitals and Health Systems.
Shri M V Verma – Commandant, National Disaster Response Force, Tamil Nadu.
Sri C.S. Ramakrishnan - Chief Operating Officer & Chief Consultant – QMS & IS / MS - ACME CONSULTING, Chennai.
Ms Lallu Joseph, Quality Manger, Directorate of Quality Management, CMC Vellore.
Shri PR Ravindran - Chartered-cum-Cost Accountant, Former CGM,Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai.
Prof Hanna Priya – I/C Hospital Inspection Control Committee, Sankara Nethralaya & Faculty – The SN Academy.
Representative from TTK Health Insurance, Chennai.
Dr Dr. R.R. Sudhir - Head Dept of Preventive Ophthalmology & Senior Consultant in Cornea & Refractive Surgery, Sankara Nethralaya.
Dr TV Subramaniam (Dr TVS) - Professor Emeritus – IIFMR Chennai & IIM – Ahmadabad & Chairman Board of Studies at Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy.
Shri N J Gowri Shankar – CEO & Chief Consultant – HSB Consulting, Chennai.
Dr.Sumanth Raman, Head-Healthcare Innovations, Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai.
Medico Legal Expert from Apollo Hospitals/ SRMC, Chennai.
Dr Preetha Reddy – Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.
 
Dr S Aravind – Administrator & Director for Projects – Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai.
 
Mrs Mallika Mohandas – Chairman, MIOT Hospitals, Chennai.
 
Dr Sunil Chandy – Director, Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore.
 
Dr S S Badrinath – Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Sankara Nethralaya, Medical Research Foundation, Chennai

 

Who should attend the Seminar?

 

CEOs, MDs, Presidents, General Managers, Heads of Strategic Planning from the Hospital / health Sector, Risk Management professionals, Executives in charge of Service Quality, Managers of Operation, facilities management, Nursing Administrators, students of Management programs and others with an interest in hospital administration.
 

 

Registration details:

 

Delegates:

  • Individual Delegates: Rs 4000/- Head.
  • Group Registration (3 + from One Hospital / Organization): Rs 3500 /- Head.
  • Hospital Management students: Rs 3000/- Head

Registration FEE includes:

·  Seminar  participation - 2 Days

·  Lunch and Tea - 2 Days

·  Certificate of Participation

·  Knowledge Material (PPTs of the Speakers)

·  Pictures of the Conference (web Link).

Last date to receive filled in Registration Form with Registration fees: 31st of March 2014.

Mode of Registration:

 

The Registration fee is to be paid by Demand Draft in favour of MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION payable at Chennai.

 

Organizing Secretary:

A. Mahalingam

Assistant Registrar

The Sankara Nethralaya Academy (TSNA)
Mobile : (0) 97104 85295/E Mail : mahali@snmail.org


 

 

 

-      Proposed Agenda-

The Sankara Nethralaya Academy

(Unit of Medical Research Foundation)

Agenda – Day 1

(09.05.2014, Friday)

 A Seminar On

Emerging Trends in Hospital Administration

Venue :  Sri V.D Swami’s Auditorium, 7th Floor, KNBIRVO Block,

Sankara Nethralaya, 18 College Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai – 600006.

 

08.30am To 9.00 am :Registration
9.00 am
To
09.15 am
Introduction and welcome address
Ms Akila Ganesan
Senior General Manager – Sankara Nethralaya
Registrar – The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, Chennai
09.15 am
To
09.45 am
Empowering the internal customers through continuous teaching training and development in organizations.
By Ms Akila Ganesan
Senior General Manager – Sankara Nethralaya
Registrar – The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, Chennai..
09.45 am
To
10.30 am
Assessing ever-changing role and responsibilities of a hospital CEO.
By Dr John Punnose – Management Consultant, Mentor & CEO – Hospitals and Health Systems.
10.30 am – 11.00 am : Coffee Break
11.00 am
To
12.00N
Healthcare Disaster Management
By Shri M V Verma – Commandant, National Disaster Response Force, Tamil Nadu.
 
12.01pm
To
01.00 pm
Using lean management to reduce waste and improve efficiencies of hospitals.
By Sri C.S. Ramakrishnan - Chief Operating Officer & Chief Consultant – QMS & IS / MS - ACME CONSULTING, Chennai
1.00 pm To 2.00 pm : Lunch Break
2.00 pm
To
2.45 pm
Accreditations for Hospitals & Retaining quality advantage - post accreditation
By Ms Lallu Joseph, Quality Manger, CMC Vellore.
2.45 pm
To
3.30 pm
Revenue cycle management excellence - easily improving bottom-line.
By Shri PR Ravindran - Chartered-cum-Cost Accountant, Former CGM,Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai
 
03.30 pm To 4.30 pm – Coffee Break
4.30 pm
To
5.30 pm
 
Discussing pros and cons of outsourcing facilities management in healthcare organizations.
By C/O SRMC, Chennai



The Sankara Nethralaya Academy

(Unit of Medical Research Foundation)

Agenda – Day 2

 

(10.05.2014, Saturday)

 

08.00 am
To
09.00 am
Clean It… Then Prove It! Cleaning control as a tool to reduce healthcare acquired infections.
By Prof Hanna Priya – I/C Hospital Inspection Control Committee, Sankara Nethralaya & Faculty – The SN Academy
9.00 am
To
09.45 am
Innovations in Healthcare Insurance
By C/O TTK Health Insurance.
09.45 am
To
10.30 am
Enhancing patient-centered care by increasing speed of patient service.
By Dr Dr. R.R. Sudhir - Head Dept of Preventive Ophthalmology & Senior Consultant in Cornea & Refractive Surgery, Sankara Nethralaya.
10.30 am To 11.00 am : Coffee Break
11.00 am
To
11.45 am
 Implementing quality Improvement tools and strategies within your organization.
By Dr TV Subramaniam (Dr TVS) - Professor Emeritus – IIFMR Chennai & IIM – Ahmadabad & Chairman Board of Studies at Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy
11.45 am
To
12.30 pm
Do Hospitals need to build themselves as a “Brand”? How to build a brand in Regional and Global Healthcare?
By Shri N J Gowri Shankar – CEO & Chief Consultant – HSB Consulting, Chennai( to be confirmed)
12.30 pm To 1.30 pm : Lunch Break
01.30 pm
To
02.15pm
Transforming Healthcare Delivery through Information & Communication technology.
By Dr.Sumanth Raman, Head-Healthcare Innovations, Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai
2.15pm
To
3.00 pm
Medico Legal Issues in Healthcare Management
By
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm : Coffee Break
03.30 pm
To
5.00 pm 
Panel Discussion on Emerging Trends in Hospital Management
Moderator : Ms Akila Ganesan – Sr General Manager – Sankara Nethralaya.
 
Panel Members:
Dr Preetha Reddy – Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.
Dr S Aravind – Administrator & Director for Projects – Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai.
Mrs Mallika Mohandas – Chairman, MIOT Hospitals, Chennai.
Dr Sunil Chandy – Director, Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore.
Dr S S Badrinath – Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Sankara Nethralaya, Medical Research Foundation, Chennai.
5.00 pm 
To
5.30 pm
Vote of Thanks
By A Mahalingam, The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, Chennai.
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