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Leveraging Improvement Capacity For Organization Strategy Deployment, Suneela Nayak, Natalia Johnson, Rebecca A. Brookes, Andrew Levine Oct 2021

Leveraging Improvement Capacity For Organization Strategy Deployment, Suneela Nayak, Natalia Johnson, Rebecca A. Brookes, Andrew Levine

Operational Transformation

Every three years, Maine Health releases a Strategic Plan that outlines the organization’s strategic priorities and guides decision making and resource allocation through promoting our mission, vision, and values. Operational Excellence at Maine Medical Center aims to create a culture of continuous improvement that promotes quality and value in our healthcare system in alignment with our strategic priorities. Through our improvement efforts within the hospital, we want to ensure we are disseminating and promoting the goals set forth by the Strategic Plan in our daily management system.


Pandemic Pearl: Innovations In Virtual Improvement Coaching, Suneela Nayak, Natalia Johnson, Rebecca Brookes, Andrew Levine Oct 2021

Pandemic Pearl: Innovations In Virtual Improvement Coaching, Suneela Nayak, Natalia Johnson, Rebecca Brookes, Andrew Levine

Operational Transformation

The success of local performance improvement efforts depends on the engagement of clinical care teams in a culture of continuous improvement. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many teams at Maine Medical Center (and across the globe), transitioned to remote work to stop the spread of the virus. While some are returning to office, a significant amount of work is still being done remotely. For continued success, we need to understand how we can best coach clinical care teams in a hybrid or remote environment.