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Change Management Implementation Strategies For Small Businesses, Oneeka Rena' Rivers
Change Management Implementation Strategies For Small Businesses, Oneeka Rena' Rivers
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Most organizational change initiatives fail because managers lack effective change management strategies. The purpose of this single case study was to explore change management strategies that outpatient care facility managers used to positively affect process improvements. The population consisted of 6 managers who completed change initiatives at a military, outpatient medical facility in Texas and 6 of their team members. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and organization documents, then analyzed based on the conceptual framework of Lewin’s change theory. Rowley’s 4-step process for analysis—organizing; getting acquainted with; classifying; coding and interpreting; and presenting and writing up the data—was used …
Evaluating The Discharge Process Improvement Initiative In Reducing The Length Of Stay, Maria Reina Ventura Siazon
Evaluating The Discharge Process Improvement Initiative In Reducing The Length Of Stay, Maria Reina Ventura Siazon
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Extended hospital length of stay (LOS) causes increased health care costs and incidence of never events, such as hospital-acquired infections, pressure ulcers, and falls, which are not reimbursed by Medicare. This study examined if there would be a statistically significant decrease in the LOS of patients after the implementation of a discharge process improvement initiative (DPII), The model for improvement and small tests of change concept were used to guide the DPII at a hospital in northern California. Sources of data included archival data obtained from the hospital's quality improvement department that showed LOS prior to and after the implementation …