Walter Bilgram, the now retired former Vice President of Operational Excellence at BJC Healthcare in Missouri shares his thoughts and reflections on his career and over 30 years of work in quality and improvement. Related Items Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit Catalysis Healthcare Value Network
Dr. Pierre-Luc Fournier, Professor of Operations Management at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, and a contributor to our partner CLEAR (the Center for Lean Engagement and Research) at the University of California – Berkeley School of Public Health, shares about the results of a study done on the psychological barriers to problem-solving and agility […]
Pete Knox and Ted Toussaint from Prospect3 share about their work with health system leaders to accelerate their journey to population health by redesigning primary care and building internal capability for redesign and new care model development. Related Items White Papers Customized Transformation Roadmap Services
Matt Pollard, a former ER doctor and now Vice President of Continuous Improvement at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City discusses the importance of closing the loop and constant diligence in maintaining and examining your systems to keep them moving forward. Related Items Creating a Lean Management System Overview Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit Catalysis Healthcare […]
We hear from the team from UMass Memorial Health System about their operating room preference cards improvement project. Related Items Catalysis Healthcare Value Network White Papers from Catalysis
Dr. Lee Erickson, Senior VP & Chief Quality Officer with Tufts Medicine in Massachusetts shares about Integrated Daily Management Systems and Tiered huddles and how they are all interconnected to improve all outcomes. Related Items Catalysis Healthcare Value Network Creating a Lean Management System Overview workshop Customized Services
By: Felicity Pino, MS, MPA, Director of Performance Improvement at Children’s Mercy Throughout 2021, more than 47.8 million American employees voluntarily left their jobs, an all-time record, and 12 million more than in 2020 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022). The year saw so many resignations that the trend became known as “the Great Resignation.” Currently, […]
We are joined by Jeannine Grinnell, CEO of UW Medicine – Valley Medical Center, who presented a keynote at the 2022 Catalysis Lean Healthcare Summit in Salt Lake City, sharing about their journey and work to “build a better boat.” Related Items Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit Catalysis Healthcare Value Network Customized Services
Daily huddles are an important element in a lean management system. Shelcy Kamrud and Natalie Bergstrom, from Mount Sinai Morningside, share with us about how they implemented and adapted their daily huddle standard to their Patient Care Liaison team, virtually. Related Items Article “Adapting Daily Management Huddles for a […]
Co-written by Shelcy Kamrud and Natalie Bergstrom The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic swept through New York City in March of 2020. At Mount Sinai Morningside, teams across the hospital were also in the beginning stages of implementing both communication and improvement huddles by utilizing large dry erase boards in their departments. While many frontline clinical […]
