ACS Quality and Safety Conference 2023: Don’t Miss It.

The handwriting is on the wall: Quality improvement (QI) is here to stay in the ACS Cancer Programs. Between the Commission on Cancer (CoC) and the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), Cancer Programs has supported five national-level cancer QI projects and it must be said, they are very popular. There is no doubt that national-level QI projects are here to stay and so now is a good time to learn more about QI at this year’s ACS Quality and Safety Conference (QSC), which will be held in Minneapolis, July 10-13. The theme of this year's conference is “The Patient Voice” and you will hear from patients, surgeons, physicians, and other healthcare professionals who directly and indirectly influence patient outcomes.

In case you are wondering, there is something for everyone at the QSC, from basic workshops on conducting QI projects to strategies for overcoming access to care barriers and tactics for making projects patient centered. For those of you who are participating in the smoking cessation QI projects there is a session on How You Can Move Beyond ASKing Through Collaborative Learning and for NAPBC programs working on timeliness of care, a session on How QI and Patient Interviews Can Make Your Practice PROMPT. Or perhaps you and your colleagues will want to hear the latest about Building a Solution Shop to Break Barriers to Cancer Care or hear the experts talk about Using Root Cause Analysis to Achieve Operative Standards Compliance.

We look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis in July. There is much to learn and to experience so don’t miss it.