Ellen Noel


Our healthcare partnerships across the globe have afforded us a broad and relevant perspective on how diverse healthcare systems have responded to the challenges of COVID-19. These challenges include unprecedented inventory management variations, rapid testing and surveillance processes, virtual visit expansions, safe elective surgeries and future surge planning. However, within these challenges lie the seeds for successful...
Learning Through Crisis: After Action Review and...
Recent Blog Posts
Gain Strategic Alignment on Population Health...

A few years into their transition to a population health model, one of our recent clients – a Midwest healthcare system serving 200,000 people – felt the wheels of...

What Is the Cost of Not Having a Strategic...

When you think about costs in health care, what costs do you think are hurting us the most? EN: To me, the cost of a broken care system to patients and families is...

How a Value Stream Can Help You Produce...

What is a value stream? A value stream is an improvement philosophy, a systemic way of thinking about the flow of delivering quality health care. Providing value to...

The Best Way to Approach Never Events

An interview with Ellen Noel, faculty member at Virginia Mason Institute When you think of never events, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? EN: I look at...

Pain Huddle Leads to Less Medication, Lower...

From the front line to the boardroom, nurses are a valuable resource in solution-oriented health care. Their unique professional training and their role as...

Selected Resources

Healthcare Improvement Insights

Explore articles, case studies, and research that help healthcare leaders drive sustainable improvement.

Mistake Proofing in Ambulatory, Procedural, and ...

Mistake Proofing in Ambulatory, Procedural, and ...

Welcome to our blog miniseries: Transforming Healthcare, featuring some of the biggest takeaways ...

Mistake Proofing in Ambulatory, Procedural, and Inpatient Care

Welcome to our blog miniseries: Transforming Healthcare, featuring some of the biggest takeaways ...

Culture of Care

Culture of Care

Explore how equity-focused improvement, coaching and lived experience can strengthen staff ...

Culture of Care

Explore how equity-focused improvement, coaching and lived experience can strengthen staff ...

Bridge to Excellence with Three Rivers Hospital

Bridge to Excellence with Three Rivers Hospital

Join host Brenda McLeod in conversation with Jamie Boyer, German Meza, and Karen Gifford about ...

Bridge to Excellence with Three Rivers Hospital

Join host Brenda McLeod in conversation with Jamie Boyer, German Meza, and Karen Gifford about ...