Sarah Patterson

Change Management | Strategic Leadership | Provider Burnout | Optimizing Flow

The Health Care Executive’s Role in Addressing Burnout

I have been a health care leader at Virginia Mason Health System for over 30 years, as well as an executive sensei to other health care organizations. It has been my experience that burnout among our health care team members is often caused by the failure of health care leaders to evolve – to advance their mindsets, management methods and systems – fast enough to keep up with the increasingly challenging complexities in health...

Recent Blog Posts

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Responding to Crisis at Virginia Mason

March 26, 2020 | Sarah Patterson

A Message from Our Executive Director, Sarah Patterson You are in our thoughts as we hear about the incredible efforts that are underway in your organizations in...

Optimizing Flow

Improving Patient Flow Helps Conquer Health Care’s Complexities

July 09, 2018 | Sarah Patterson

In 1967, renowned management consultant, educator and author, Peter Drucker, wrote that hospitals were the most complex organizations ever created. In the more than...

Selected Resources

Healthcare Improvement Insights

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

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

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

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 ...