Moving Palliative and End-of-life Care Forward

May 17-21, 2010
Tory Building TB 95
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Bonnie Brossart, BA (Economics- University of Calgary), MA (Economics – McMaster)

Chief Executive Officer of the Health Quality Council of Saskatchewan, an organization developed to improve patient care for Saskatchewan residents. She has served with this Council since its launch in January 2003. Prior to her appointment as interim CEO, she served as Deputy CEO and co-lead of the Saskatchewan Chronic Disease Management Collaborative, one of the province’s largest quality improvement initiatives ever undertaken.

Before joining the HQC, she was a researcher with a health services research agency, a large tertiary care hospital in Calgary, and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health. Over the past decade, she has led or been involved in a number of ground-breaking research projects: analyses of regional variation in health service use; an evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of after-hospital home care, and an innovative examination of the impact of funding cuts to rural hospitals in the early 1990s. The Health Quality Council (HQC) is an independent agency that measures and reports on quality of care in Saskatchewan, promotes improvement, and engages its partners in building a better health system.

Topic:

• Speaking topic (Thursday afternoon keynote panel – presenting by video): Why is there a need to focus on rural people?

Presenting information about rural and remote peoples who live in Saskatchewan (one of the most “rural” provinces in Canada).