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Profiles in Improvement: Barbara Balik of Allina Hospitals and Clinics
Who’s improving health care? People are — at hospitals and in office practices all across the US and internationally. IHI decided to share the stories of these individuals. Here is a profile of Barbara Balik of Allina Hospitals and Clinincs.
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Raising the Bar: Achieving Dramatically Better Results
Health care organizations participating in the Pursuing Perfection initiative share the ambitious goal of establishing aims that raise the bar — dramatically improve results for patients beyond the best known in health care today.
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Mentoring in the 100,000 Lives Campaign: Just a Hospital Away
Recognizing the unique value of learning from peers, IHI has identified more than 60 organizations to serve as Mentor Hospitals in the 100,000 Lives Campaign. These hospitals work with other hospitals on ways to improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients.
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Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative
The Health Resources and Services Administration's Division of Transplantation (Rockville, Maryland, USA) has built on IHI's Breakthrough Series Collaborative Model to reform organ donation in the United States.
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ESRD Network Program Where Ingrained Habits Are Giving Way to Best Practice
Thanks to a large and aggressive nationwide program to spread best practices in vascular access, more and more dialysis patients are getting the best evidence-based care. IHI supported this initiative in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the 18 regional ESRD Networks.
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Virginia Mason Medical Center Implements Lean Management Principles to Drive Out Waste
Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle, Washington, USA) routinely finds ways to improve patient care while saving money by using a management methodology they developed based on principles of lean management from the Toyota Production System.
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Profiles in Improvement: Pat O’Connor of the National Health Service Tayside
Who’s improving health care? People are — at hospitals and in office practices all across the US and internationally. IHI decided to share the stories of these individuals. Here is a profile of Pat O'Connor of the National Health Service Tayside in Scotland.
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Organ Donation Collaborative Where an Unprecedented Increase in Donations Has Saved 3,000 Lives
In 2003, the Health Resources and Services Administration began the Organ Donation Collaborative to widely spread best practices for obtaining consent from families for organ donation. This and subsequent Collaboratives have fundamentally changed the way families are approached for consent, resulting in unprecedented new levels of organ donation.
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Profiles in Improvement: Dr. Rashad Massoud from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Who’s improving health care? People are — at hospitals and in office practices all across the US and internationally. IHI decided to share the stories of these individuals. Here is a profile of Dr. Rashad Massoud of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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Improvement Tip: Find “Muda” and Root it Out
It is a scorned yet unavoidable feature of human enterprise, an impediment to productivity that quality-driven industries target scientifically and zealously for removal. Muda: a Japanese term for waste.
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