Monday, May 20, 2002

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 1:19:02 AM

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