Medication Safety and Cost Recovery: A Four-Step Approach for Executives
Chip Caldwell, FACHE
Charles R. Denham, MD
ISBN 13: 978-1-56793-154-9
Softbound, 182 pp, 2001
Imprint: ACHE Management Series Book
Order code: WWW1-1124
Price: $18.00
The core of this book is the 100-Day Plan, a step-by-step model for reducing errors and recapturing costs. Use the plan strategies to galvanize your staff to reduce errors, establish processes for attacking errors, evaluate how well interventions are working, and recover lost productivity. The book also explores the many factors that accelerate the reduction of medication errors and those that can slow improvement work.
Get your organization started by using the Organizational Assessment and Planning Guide contained in the last chapter. These tools are also available online in a workbook format that can be printed and copied for use in your organization.
Chip Caldwell, FACHE, is president of Chip Caldwell & Associates and considered a thought leader in healthcare quality and performance improvement methodology. For the past decade, he has been a leader in the quality community serving as a member of the Baldrige Foundation Board Support Team and healthcare representative on the U.S. Quality Council. A nationally recognized speaker, he has lead seminars for the American College of Healthcare Executives for over 15 years.
Charles R. Denham, MD, is CEO of HCC Corporation. Launched in 1983, it has led, developed, or supported over 300 healthcare product development teams in over 50 product categories. In 1983 he founded the Texas Medical Institute of Technology, a nonprofit research foundation dedicated to bridging the gap between basic science innovation and clinical utilization.
"While no one questions our responsibility to do everything we can to reduce the risk of injury to our patients, in such a fiercely competitive environment many worry about finding the resources. Fear no more. Savings abound, and Caldwell and Denham show you how to capture them."
-Lucian L. Leape, MD, Harvard School of Public Health (from the foreword)
"Thanks to [the authors], we all have a foundation and framework on which to start our own institutional initiatives."
-Frank Murphy, FACHE, President/CEO, BayCare Health System
