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Strengthening Safety Culture By Leveraging The Daily Management System, Suneela Nayak, Mark Parker, Erin Graydon Baker, Amy Sparks, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik, Sydney Green
Strengthening Safety Culture By Leveraging The Daily Management System, Suneela Nayak, Mark Parker, Erin Graydon Baker, Amy Sparks, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik, Sydney Green
Operations Transformation
STRENGTHENING SAFETY CULTURE BY LEVERAGING THE DAILY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
There is abundant evidence that links a strong culture of safety with improved patient and staff experience. However, there has been no clear avenue identified as to how to achieve this metric.
A team in a large academic tertiary teaching hospital set about leveraging their daily managing system (DMS) to attain improvement in their institution’s safety. The goals of this quality improvement project were to use DMS to identify and report safety concerns and increase frontline team knowledge and comfort with reporting safety concerns during Gemba walks.
A root cause analysis …
A Coaching And Team Performance Evaluation Model To Build Capacity For High-Impact Lean Improvement, Ruth Hanselman, Mark Parker, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks
A Coaching And Team Performance Evaluation Model To Build Capacity For High-Impact Lean Improvement, Ruth Hanselman, Mark Parker, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks
Operations Transformation
There is abundant evidence that links a strong culture of safety with improved patient and staff experience. However, there has been no clear avenue identified as to how to achieve this metric.
A team in a large academic tertiary teaching hospital set about leveraging their daily managing system (DMS) to attain improvement in their institution’s safety. The goals of this quality improvement project were to use DMS to identify and report safety concerns and increase frontline team knowledge and comfort with reporting safety concerns during Gemba walks.
A root cause analysis identified 5 areas for improvement and several countermeasures were …
Sustaining Daily Management With Gemba Walks: A Scheduling Model, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks
Sustaining Daily Management With Gemba Walks: A Scheduling Model, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks
Operations Transformation
SUSTAINING DAILY MANAGEMENT WITH GEMBA WALKS: A SCHEDULING MODEL
At an academic tertiary care medical center, there are 110 Operational Excellence teams across 4 campuses. Every weekday, 10 GEMBA walks occur with the 11th on Wednesdays. The expanding program has made daily leadership visits to all KPIs challenging. As a result, consideration of reduced gemba walks to departments who have met specific maturity/performance criteria.
The scope of the eight-week pilot consisted of 13 pre-identified teams that have weekly workflows. The teams must have met a baseline level of performance. Performance was scored for 9 variables measuring engagement, PDSA, use …