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In its sixth year as a Lean organization, MemorialCare in Southern California refers to Lean as its management system, not a quality improvement method, says Diana Hendel, Pharm.D., CEO of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Miller Children's Hospital and Community Hospital both also of Long Beach.
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It was a summer of crime in Washington, DC, and area police agencies collaborated to implement a crime prevention program called All Hands On Deck. Washington Hospital Center was having a problem with falls. Would a program based on the idea of putting everyone to work to prevent falls help keep patients safe?
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Most organizations that are looking for what went wrong after an error are familiar with the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) method.
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News: A 32-year-old woman presented to the hospital following a planned home delivery with the assistance of a midwife.
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This is a portion of the Elective Delivery Policy use at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville to minimize unnecessary deliveries before 39 weeks gestation:
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Hospitals are taking a closer look at visitor access, especially in units such as obstetrics where visitors should be monitored closely, and one hospital is finding success with a key card similar to those used in hotels.
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News: In one of the largest verdicts handed down in recent Florida history, a hospital was ordered to pay $178 million in damages for permanently disabling a 38-year-old patient during gastric bypass surgery.
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Replacing the American medical liability system with a no-fault patients compensation system would create at least $2.6 trillion in savings over 10 years, according to a new study by the German economics firm BioScience Valuation in Grainau.