ACT-Solutions Collaborative Healthcare Dialogues Project Director, Kathleen Clark
chosen to participate in the first
Leadership Summit for Patient Activists
and Partners in Quality and Safety
by The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Kathleen Clark

ACT-Solutions Collaborative Healthcare Dialogues Project Director, Kathleen Clark, was recently chosen by The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to participate in the first Leadership Summit for Patient Activists and Partners in Quality and Safety.

The formal session, to be held on Sunday, December 5, 2010, will gather 50 patients and patient activists for a half-day formal session at the 22nd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Orlando, FL, to change the care dialogue.

This novel, invitation-only event will bring together patients, family members, and patient activists to form a coalition with a shared agenda including:

• Examining the role of patients, families, and the public in health reform
• Realizing the possibilities, power, and synergy of coming together
• Outlining the key messages that advocate organizations collectively want to convey
• Imbedding patients and patient activists as integral ongoing partners in the work of IHI

Institute for Healthcare Improvement webpage

YouTube VIDEO: 2010 IHI Forum

PDF of video transcript

Bringing Healing to Law and Medicine

ACT-Solutions Collaborative Healthcare Dialogues Director Kathleen Clark Convenes
Civil Collaborative Law Symposium at
National ABA Dispute Resolution Meeting

More than 100 legal, medical, mediation, insurance, patient safety, hospital accreditation and allied professionals traveled from around the US and the world, for a series of panels on non-adversarial collaborative conflict resolution processes in healthcare, business, employment, estates, trusts and probate matters on April 7, 2010 in San Francisco.

Actor James Woods, his family’s attorney, Mark Decof, and Sandy Coletta, MBA, CEO of the Kent Hospital in Warwick, RI debriefed how they used collaborative dialogue, disclosure, apology, compensation to settle a heavily litigated medical error case brought after James Wood’s brother, Michael J. Woods, died following a medical error at Kent. Chaired by Kathy Clark, JD, PhD, MAM, the Symposium was co-sponsored by three sections of the American Bar Association and provided attendees an opportunity to participate in an afternoon collaborative medical error case role play. ACT-Solutions’ Collaborative Eldercare, Estates Trusts & Probate Project Co-Director, Bill Andrews, JD, LLM; ACT-Solutions Collaborative Workplaces Director, Jeanne Fahey, JD, and ACT-Solutions’ President & CEO, Claire Spector, JD also participated as presenters.

PDF of ABA Announcement

More than 200 attendees and significant volunteer, financial and in-kind support from the Sonoma County Collaborative Practice, legal, business, mediation and arts communities made the Collaborative Families Pilot Project benefit screening of Antonio Iturrioz's critically acclaimed new film, The Buddha of the Piano: Leopold Godowsky, a great success.

ACT-Solutions’ Collaborative Families thanks critically acclaimed filmmaker/pianist, Antonio Iturrioz, Mary Jacobson, Ky Boyd and Melissa Hatheway of Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, Dr. Charles Sepos, KRCB 91-FM, Transcende.com Graphics, the Sonoma County Superior Court Family Law Judges & Family Law Facilitator, Legal and Community Agency Execs and a host of individual donors from Sonoma County and across the country who contributed in support of our work.

All funds raised are dedicated to making sliding scale collaborative professional support accessible to income-eligible self-represented Sonoma County families committed to raising emotionally healthy children and achieving sustainable family incomes.

PDF of Program