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ISQIC Newsletter
October 2014 Issue 6
Surgical Clinical Reviewer (SCR) Training
For hospitals newly reporting to NSQIP, once your SCR is hired, he/she will need to enroll in NSQIP
SCR Training. NSQIP holds SCR training on a monthly basis. The final NSQIP SCR training classes
for this year will be held on November 3, 2014 and December 8, 2014. The deadline to register
your SCR for the November training class is October 20th and the deadline to register for the
December training class is November 24th. For further information regarding registering your SCR
for either class please contact the ISQIC Coordinating Center.
ISQIC Survey and QI/PI Curriculum
Over the next couple of months each hospital will receive information regarding the ISQIC Safety
Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). The survey will gauge each hospital’s teamwork and safety climate,
physician engagement, perceptions of management, and the role of the hospital’s Surgeon
Champion. Each hospital will be provided with their results, which will allow for objective
measurement of the hospitals baseline quality improvement culture. The goal is to administer the
SAQ upon initiation of ISQIC and then again at the end of the 3 years to determine if results for
these areas improve.
ISQIC is also in the process of finalizing the QI/PI Curriculum modules. It is necessary that each
hospital’s ISQIC Team (Surgeon Champion, Surgical Clinical Reviewer, and QI Designee) complete
the modules prior to the January 23rd ISQIC Kick-Off Meeting. Further information regarding the
modules will be available within the next few months.
ISQIC Staff
Steve Reinhart is the ISQIC Process Improvement Leader. Steve is an Industrial Engineer with over
20 years of healthcare experience and leadership of Lean/Six-Sigma
ISQIC Small-Rural
projects. Over the years he has worked on
Contract Deadline:
projects to reduce surgical site infections, improve
October 31, 2014
on-time surgical starts, and increase the efficiency
NSQIP SCR Training Class:
of sterile processing. Previously, Steve worked for
November 3, 2014
a contract research organization focused on
December 8, 2014
health economics and outcomes research. Since
May 2014, he has been working with the ISQIC
ISQIC Kick-Off Meeting:
Friday, January 23, 2015
team to develop the online Quality and Process
NIU-Naperville Conference Improvement Curriculum1 and prepare sites for this
Center
important quality-improvement initiative.