For leaders who want to make progress in improvements across an organization, the challenge can seem insurmountable. How can you get executives, providers and staff to adopt a mindset of continuous improvement? How do you even get started? A good place to begin is to reflect on your organization’s culture. What would it take for you to have a culture that puts the patient first? Are you thinking it would be too hard on your...
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Using the Nemawashi Gauge to Guide Improvement in...

A culture in support of safety is inextricably linked to a culture where continuous improvement thrives. Leaders drive values, values drive behaviors, and the...

The Beauty of Intrinsic Motivation

“For me, leadership here is a vocation and I think that’s true for many of us.” – Charleen Tachibana, RN A lot has been written lately about burnout among health...

Cutting Cost of Care While Improving Quality

“From my perspective, we all have a common purpose, and that is to return healthy and satisfied employees to work faster and more affordably.” Robert Mecklenburg,...

Improving New Patient Visits

A large health care organization wanted to transform its patient and provider experience by improving new patient visits, the imaging process and electronic...

Using Lean Ideas in Our Everyday Work

“The most common types of Everyday Lean Ideas involve shaving time off a process. And when you think about the cost in health care one of our most valuable...

Are Your Leaders, Doctors and Board Members...

“The compact serves to ensure alignment with a shared vision.” – Diane Miller At Virginia Mason, the physician compact has been crucial to the organization’s...

Improving Your Organization’s Relationship With...

“What matters is living by [the physician compact] and sticking to it over time. That’s how the culture is changed.” – Dr. Joyce Lammert Getting at the intrinsic...

The Waste Epidemic: How Do You Deal With It in...

“It works. It’s sustainable. It’s continuous.” – Carolyn Corvi Carolyn Corvi spent 34 years in manufacturing commercial aircraft at Boeing, where she served as...

A Doctor’s Courage

For generations the cultural norm in medicine has been that mistakes were discussed in private circles within the hospital or physician practice — if at all. It is...

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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 ...