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For
immediate release
REVERE
AND BLACK TO RECEIVE ACHE’S HAYHOW AWARD
CHICAGO,
February 14, 2005—Lee Revere, Ph.D., and Ken
Black, Ph.D., are the winners of the American College of Healthcare
Executives 2005 Edgar C. Hayhow Award for their article “Integrating
Six Sigma with Total Quality Management: A Case Example for
Measuring Medication Errors.” The article appeared in
the November/December 2003 issue of the Journal of Healthcare
Management.
The
award will be presented on March 16, 2005, at the Wednesday
Hot Topic Session #2 during the American College of Healthcare
Executives 48th Congress on Healthcare Management at the Hilton
Chicago.
ACHE
grants the Hayhow Award annually to the author(s) of an article
judged the best from among those published in the Journal
of Healthcare Management, ACHE’s official journal.
Named
in honor of ACHE’s 14th Chairman, the Edgar C. Hayhow
Award recognizes outstanding contributions to healthcare management
literature. The article was selected by ACHE’s Article
of the Year Awards Committee.
In
their article, Revere and Black demonstrate the unique application
of Six Sigma—a management philosophy that seeks a nonexistent
error rate—to the healthcare management field. They
point out that while Six Sigma requires investment of significant
time and resources for other organizations, healthcare organizations
can easily “piggyback” Six Sigma onto their current
total quality management efforts. Revere and Black highlight
several healthcare organizations that have successfully implemented
Six Sigma and identify how these organizations integrated
Six Sigma with existing quality management programs. Finally,
Revere and Black present a framework for including Six Sigma
in an organization’s total quality management plan;
they provide a concrete example of how this is done using
medication errors. They conclude that the application of Six
Sigma makes TQM efforts more successful.
Revere
is assistant professor and Black is professor of Decision
Sciences in the School of Business and Public Administration
at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, TX.
The
Article of the Year Awards Committee recommends two additional
articles: “The Roles of Senior Management in Quality
Improvement Efforts: What Are the Key Components?” by
Elizabeth H. Bradley et al., and “The Long-Term Costs
of Career Interruptions,” by Patricia G. Ketsche and
Lisette Branscomb. Both articles were published in the January/February
2003 issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management.
CONTACT:
Douglas A. Klegon, Ph.D., (312) 424-9420
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