Tag: Patient Safety
Babies and Kittens and Monkeys, Oh My! This Improves Patient Safety?
The more I visit different hospitals, the more I tend to roll my eyes at the different signs that aim to remind staff and/or...
World Series Defect: Wrong Pitcher
People in healthcare know that miscommunications are a major cause of errors and patient harm. There was a strange footnote to game 5 of...
Paul O’Neill on Lean Leadership for Healthcare
Hat tip to Dan Markovitz for pointing out this excellent post on John Toussaint's blog: "The Key Leadership Behaviors in a Lean Organization?"
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Infographic – The Hazards of Hospitals
Some people might find this graphic inflammatory, if they are feeling defensive about the state of healthcare and if they feel like they are...
Dramatically Reducing Infections & Errors – Why Not Your Hospital?
When I recently interviewed Paul O'Neill and Dr. Richard Shannon about the amazing improvements in patient safety that had been made in the Pittsburgh...
Podcast #127 – Dr. Richard Shannon, on Lean, Quality & Patient...
Podcast #127 is a very special conversation with a leader and a hero of mine in the world of patient safety, Richard P. Shannon,...
ThedaCare’s CEO: “The Goal is Zero – The Target is Improvement”
On his blog, John Toussaint shared this letter from ThedaCare CEO Dean Gruner to all employees. Toussaint said the letter is inspired by Paul...
Case Study: Standardization of Anesthesia Carts Across Multiple Sites
Today's post is a case study submitted by Abdul N. Mansour, Director Lean & Process Improvement at Scottsdale (AZ) Healthcare. The material here and...
Interview With Former CEO Paul O’Neill on Safety for Workers and...
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I have a very special guest for Podcast #124 - he is Paul O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury Secretary from 2001 to 2002 and former...
Collected Quality & Cost Results from Healthcare Value Network Members
I was at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value office a few months ago when Dr. John Toussaint reported that he had gotten a...
What Makes a Hospital Great? Culture
This has been sitting in my "to blog about" queue since March, but I wanted to catch up and post this article: "What Makes...
Denver Health’s Lean Patient Safety Improvements on PBS’ NewsHour
On June 30, the PBS NewsHour program did a 7-minute story on healthcare improvement (featuring Lean and Toyota methods) at Denver Health.
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