Tag: "better hospitals"

Changing Attitudes: The Key to Achieving Hospital Productivity Gains

Changing Attitudes: The Key to Achieving Hospital Productivity Gains

In today’s hospitals, it’s not uncommon to encounter defensiveness from inpatient unit managers who miss their productivity targets.

Apr 09, 2010 | 3 comments | View Post
Low-Cost, High-Quality Healthcare Can Be a Reality

Low-Cost, High-Quality Healthcare Can Be a Reality

with Smart Workforce Planning

Apr 01, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Helping Your Board Ensure Patient Safety

Helping Your Board Ensure Patient Safety

Your quality team has studied the new standard changes, updated policies, and conducted tracers to monitor compliance. What else can you do as an executive to help …

Feb 05, 2010 | 1 comment | View Post
Early Detection: Stop Small Problems before they are Big Problems

Early Detection: Stop Small Problems before they are Big Problems

Bringing minor regulatory problems to light before they have a chance to grow is the most important step toward preventing big problems that could diminish quality and patient safety .

Nov 04, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Sitting Ducks Get Shot … Especially While Waiting for the Inevitability of Healthcare Reform

Sitting Ducks Get Shot … Especially While Waiting for the Inevitability of Healthcare Reform

By Kate Fenner, RN, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Compass Clinical Consulting.

Oct 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
How Could This Happen?

How Could This Happen?

By Cary D. Gutbezahl, MD, President, Compass Clinical Consulting. Although many factors may contribute to an avoidable injury, investigations often reveal that the policy and procedures were in place, the staff was trained on and understood the policy and procedures, staffing was adequate to do the work, but people didn’t follow the policy.

Oct 09, 2009 | 1 comment | View Post
Resignation Without Notice Leads to Process Discovery

Resignation Without Notice Leads to Process Discovery

On the Lean Blog, Jesus “Chuy” Ellin, HT PA andPeter P Patterson, MD MBA noted that the histopathology laboratory at their hospital recently had a breakthrough in the lean journey begun in 2007. The monthly defect rate in the order entry process has fallen precipitously from 33.5% to 2.5% over the past five months, after [...]

Jun 30, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Every Hospital — Even the Best — Can be Better

The same problems plaguing Operating Rooms today were at work 15 years ago. I found a scholarly document on operating room management written in 1992 that goes into detail on these problems: “multiple surgical specialties, anesthesiology and nursing — have different motivations and cultures that frequently do not work well together on a team. Strong personalities, long work hours, interpersonal coflicts and many critically ill patients make the O. R. an area of high stress.”

Feb 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
AHA Report: Hospitals in Trouble

AHA Report: Hospitals in Trouble

Health care is not immune to changes in the economy. In its “Reports on the Economic Crisis: Initial Impact on Hospitals” issued by the American Hospital Association last November, several startling trends were identified: Uncompensated care is increasing at the rate of 8 percent nationwide. Hospital operating margins are declining 1 percent or more on [...]

Feb 15, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post