Chris Taylor leads TIBCO Software’s Nimbus Americas Consulting practice and writes the blog SucessfulWorkplace.com. He shares examples of big wins in healthcare reform by ThedaCare and Intermountain Health Care. Highlights work of ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. To download the article, click here
https://createvalue.org/articles_and_news/the-health-care-reform-that-cant-be-stopped/
Look how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” – Anne Frank As healthcare institutions continue to increase activity around providers exiting the industry, unionization, and strikes, workplace engagement and well-being have become a key focus as healthcare institutions still try to recover from the drastic changes that COVID-19 required of healthcare […]
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Written by: Amy Mervak and Mike Radtke “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” – Wayne W. Dyer Change can be hard. This isn’t necessarily a revelation, but instead a painful reality for many of us. We make New Year’s resolutions that we don’t keep, we have health […]
Whether we aim to be a “Lean” hospital or have a culture of safety (or, ideally, both), this level of excellence is built upon a culture of continuous improvement. As Greg Jacobson, MD, an emergency medicine physician, and CEO of KaiNexus says: “We cannot have a culture of continuous improvement without a culture of learning […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/problem-solving-psychological-safety/
This is the third blog in a four-part series focused on sustaining lean transformation in healthcare organizations. To read the previous blog posts in the series, please follow the links below: Blog #1 Establishing and Sustaining a Lean Management System Blog #2 Maintaining Forward Movement The critical step for any leader interested in Lean is […]
Guest blog post from Jeremiah Hargrave – Director, Quality and Organizational Improvement at Torrance Memorial Medical Center Weapon: a thing designed or used to inflict harm or damage, a means of gaining an advantage or defending oneself in a conflict or contest. Would you categorize your PI tools as weapons? I definitely would. We use […]
This article is written by Catalysis thought partners Joseph Sluka, Jeff Absalon, and Rod Marchiando. Their organization, Level Zero, specializes in strategic and operational guidance to physicians, executive teams, and healthcare boards of directors. It is not a rosy picture. The landscape for healthcare in the United States and many countries across the globe is […]
Over the last three years, the healthcare community has found innovative and resourceful ways to not only combat challenges, but also thrive and grow. That is why the theme for this year’s Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit was Learn, Share, Connect: Accelerating change during dynamic times. Our presenters shared about developing their teams, building a resilient […]
This is the second blog in a four-part series focused on sustaining lean transformation in healthcare organizations. To read the previous blog post in the series, please follow the link below: Blog #1 Establishing and Sustaining a Lean Management System American educator and author, Reed B. Markham, once said, “If you are standing still, you […]
LOGAN, Utah, April 17, 2023 — The Shingo Institute, a program of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, has awarded John Toussaint, MD and Kim Barnas the Shingo Publication Award for their book, Becoming the Change: Leadership Behavior Strategies for Continuous Improvement in Healthcare.
https://createvalue.org/blog/shingo-publication-award-given-becoming-change/
