Leading Your Healthcare Organization to Excellence: A Guide to Using the Baldrige Criteria

Patrice L. Spath

Softbound, 2004
  • Print: $84.00

Book Description

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Are your quality and patient safety initiatives stalled? Have you tried the latest quality improvement trend and been disappointed in the results?

Leading Your Healthcare Organization to Excellence can help you focus your efforts to achieve real improvements. This book uses the well-known Baldrige Criteria as a road map for increasing care quality at your organization. Rather than an ill-defined management fad, the Baldrige Criteria provide an efficient outline for quality improvement that has delivered proven results across many industries, including healthcare.

The criteria can help you pinpoint trouble spots and prioritize improvement activities. Use the book's many helpful tools, including key points, self-assessments, and reflections, to adapt the Baldrige model to the specific needs of your organization. Positive changes in the attitudes, services, processes, measurement, planning, leadership, and patient satisfaction at your organization can all be inspired by the Baldrige Criteria

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What Readers Are Saying

"This book is excellent for anyone who wants to know theory but really needs practical, day-to-day tools for implementing the concepts. Patrice has the ability to put complex ideas into straightforward language that executives can easily grasp. I recommend this book for anyone wanting to move their organization to the next level of excellence."

—Virginia Bynum, PhD, CHE, vice president Sioux Valley Hospital and Health System

"Every healthcare organization that wants to improve its performance should read this book. What is particularly appealing about the book are the case studies and examples that demonstrate to readers how organizations can use the concepts presented."

—Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, FAAN editor, Journal of Nursing Care Quality