Did you know that Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) is part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) long-standing effort to link Medicare’s payment system to a value-based system to improve healthcare quality, including the quality of care provided in the inpatient hospital setting? Also the program attaches value-based purchasing to the payment system […]
What is if you or your love one were having open heart surgery, and the surgical instruments were dirty? What if the anesthesiologist had to keep you unconscious longer than expected because the instruments that were needed to complete your surgery had to be cleaned for an additional hour or there were not enough instruments […]
Physicians love Kaizens Kaizen is a Japanese for “improvement.” When used in the business sense and applied to healthcare, Kaizen refers to activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the house keepers. For what ever reason front-line employees in healthcare are a bit apprehensive to approach physicians. No one […]
The 5 Y’s for perfect patient care. On of the greatest common sense tools of Lean is the (5Y) analysis. This tool simply ask’s Y (why) 5 times. The following is a result of me asking for the 5Y’s for perfect patient care .