Instruction
(1) Looking at the six focus areas of the Virginia Mason Production System, how is your organization preparing for the future of healthcare and lean thinking?
In the same post, in a separate paragraph, provide an example of the best description of either "Continuous Improvement" or "Lean Culture" that you can find. What makes this particular example/description so compelling to you?
(2) In the IHI Framework for Leadership for Improvement, setting the direction is the first key step. As a leader in your organization, how do you live the mission, vision and strategy of the organization to make sure it creates a foundation that supports a culture of innovation, creativity and change?
(3)Discuss the validity of the quote “What gets measured gets improved.” Will a culture of incessant measurement and benchmarking help improve healthcare, or will it make stakeholders work to improve numbers without improving overall care?
(4)Quality of care and patient safety should be priority throughout the care of a patient, including to the moment of life's end. Based on the first few chapters of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, how do independence behaviors by patients, the aging population itself and dependence behaviors help shape quality of care, whether positively or negatively?
my organization is UCLA Health- Ronald Reagan Hospital.
Each question should be about 150-200 words!