Discount Hotel Rate Deadlines Are Approaching for ACS Quality and Safety Conference

Healthcare professionals dedicated to raising the bar on the quality of surgical care and patient safety are invited to attend the 2023 ACS Quality and Safety Conference, July 10–13 at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minnesota – register today.

A block of rooms has been secured at a selection of Minneapolis hotels surrounding the Minneapolis Convention Center, with a special rate for conference attendees, and the deadlines to receive the discounted prices are quickly approaching. Visit the conference accommodations web page for more information and to reserve today.

This year’s conference theme, The Patient Voice, will be featured prominently as surgeons, nurses, quality improvement (QI) professionals, and other healthcare providers sharing their knowledge and experience to help improve care of the surgical patient.

Sessions at this year’s conference will feature content from all 18 ACS Quality Programs, including the Quality Verification Program, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, and more.

A new track this year, Emergency General Surgery (EGS), will focus on content from the EGS Verification Program; the Quality Improvement Principles track will feature the new ACS Quality Framework and toolkit.

Plenary sessions will include:

• Recently launched ACS Power of Quality campaign
• Equity in Quality
• Moving Beyond Traditional Leadership
• Latest QI Discoveries
• Importance of Good Data

Other Conference Highlights

In this year’s Keynote Address, Oluwaferanmi O. Okanlami, MD, MS, will share his remarkable journey and perspective on being both a physician and a patient. He will explain the meaning behind his catch phrase “disabusing disability” and demonstrate that DISability doesn’t mean INability and the reason why the patient voice is so essential.

In addition, the conference will feature the return of the QI Basics Preconference, a new QI Basics Residents Preconference Workshop will focus on elements of QI that are the most important for surgical residents, expanded abstract and poster submission categories, and more. Attendees can claim educational credits for up to 90 days after the conference.