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Welcome to our web site and the initiative to improve health care and public health through enhanced scale-up and spread of effective health programs. This website was established in conjunction with the July 2010 Conference to Advance the State of the Science and Practice on Scale-up and Spread of Effective Health Programs, an event funded by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, Commonwealth Fund, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Donaghue Foundation and John A. Hartford Foundation. The initiative seeks to envision – and trigger – a new era of rapid and broad scale up of effective practices in health care and public health, to achieve improvements in health and quality of life through more rapid diffusion and uptake of effective, innovative practices.

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Friday, August 27, 2010

News

I wanted to share with you all that, after almost nine terrific years of work in association with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, I will be taking a new position at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. I will be based in Washington, DC.
Given my passion for improvement and dissemination, this seems like a terrific opportunity, and it's one I'm eager to take. Having said that, I will need to step down from my position as chair of the conference and our learning community. Marie Schall, who you all now know from her role as a working group chair at the conference, will take over as the point person from IHI, joining the conference co-chairs, Brian Mittman and Wynne Norton.
Happily, they will shortly initiate the VA-sponsored webinar series which should help sustain the momentum from our gathering (more information to come on that shortly). I know I speak for Brian, Wynne and Marie when I say that our shared hope is for this group to continue to come together regularly to build will and tools for the field, and to actively study and support ongoing scale-up efforts.
I am still awaiting my ethics orientation, at which point I will better understand the boundaries of my future involvement, but I fully intend to stay as involved with the group as possible.
Thank you very much for you ongoing involvement with this important work.
All the best,
Joe McCannon

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