Pursuing Perfection Evaluation site visits
From: Irene.Cramer@med.va.gov [mailto:Irene.Cramer@med.va.gov]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: Pursuing Perfection Evaluation site visits
We are looking forward to having the opportunity to meet each of you and the
members of your staff involved in the Pursuing Perfection effort. As RWJF's
John Fiorillo and Linda Bilheimer described in their memo this week, we will
be present at the May 29 IHI meeting to introduce the evaluation aspect of
this project. We will also provide you with more specific information next
week.
The evaluation of the Pursuing Perfection effort has several aspects to it
with the first being a visit to each of your facilities, hopefully in June.
We will be on site for two full days and would like to meet individually
with senior and line staff knowledgeable and involved in the Pursuing
Perfection effort. In addition, we will want to become familiar with your
system for performance based data collection. Because each site varies, we
will need to identify the appropriate people site by site and will look to
your counsel as well to help us identify the people and set up the
appointment times prior to our visit.
At this time we are asking you to choose from the times listed below, the
three best time slots for a site visit. Please indicate your first, second
and third choices. If possible, we would like to complete the site visits in
June. We have three teams available, each with three people.
1st choice 2nd choice 3rd choice
June 3 and 4 ________ ________ ________
June 4 and 5 ________ ________ ________
June 5 and 6 ________ ________ ________
June 6 and 7 ________ ________ ________
June 10 and 11 ________ ________ ________
June 11 and 12 ________ ________ ________
June 12 and 13 ________ ________ ________
June 13 and 14 ________ ________ ________
June 17 and 18 ________ ________ ________
June 19 and 20 ________ ________ ________
June 20 and 21 ________ ________ ________
June 26 and 27 ________ ________ ________
If you cannot choose three dates in June, please indicate from among the
July dates as well.
1st choice 2nd choice 3rd choice
July 9 and 10 ________ ________ ________
July 10 and 11 ________ ________ ________
July 11 and 12 ________ ________ ________
July 15 and 16 ________ ________ ________
July 16 and 17 ________ ________ ________
July 18 and 19 ________ ________ ________
If you have questions, please give me a call or e-mail me.
Thank you for your assistance.
Irene E. Cramer, Ph.D.,
Pursuing Perfection Evaluation Project Manager
Management Decision and Research Center
VA Boston Healthcare System (152-M)
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
Telephone: (617) 232-9500 ext. 5758
Fax: (617) 278-4438
e-mail: irene.cramer@med.va.gov
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