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Quality As A Business Strategy To Address National Healthcare Crisis

Chief Executive

It is time to shift from approaching quality as compliance to quality as a driver of excellence. As healthcare organizations seek progress on goals and improving patient outcomes, many executives have failed to recognize quality as a long-term strategic priority, rather than a regulatory and compliance function. Why quality?

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Director of People and Culture Job Description and Salary

AIHR

Legal compliance and risk management: Ensuring that HR practices comply with labor laws and regulations. Here are three distinctions: HR Director Director of People and Culture Focuses on the operational and traditional HR functions like recruitment, benefits administration, employee relations, performance management , and compliance.

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Focus HR on Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Exactly how can HR accelerate process improvement? Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience.

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How We Transformed Emergency Care at Our Hospital

Harvard Business Review

The emergency department (ED) is no longer just the hospital’s often-overcrowded front door for medical emergencies, accidents, and trauma — or a safety net for people who lack access to care. Many hospitals have responded to crowding by building larger EDs. That’s a very broad-based responsibility.

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What is the Deming Cycle (PDCA) in change management?

Walk Me

Process pacing and suitability for urgent tasks Despite its simplicity, the PDCA model can be demanding in execution. It segments process improvements into smaller steps, leading to a potentially slow pace. These interventions led to a notable decrease in hypoglycemia rates in our hospital.

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Why Doesn't HR Lead Change?

Harvard Business Review

It's hard to find leaders of the human resources (HR) function who are active in helping their organization improve the way it works. I asked dozens of people who are in HR or in process improvement to share examples of HR change leaders, and I only found a few. Though it's rare, here's an indicator of what is possible.

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When Learning at Work Becomes Overwhelming

Harvard Business Review

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments.