When Six Sigma and other Improvements Come from the Leadership

Posted by: meikah | 25 August 2008 | 8:44 pm

Inspired by Six Sigma and Toyota model of management, Windber Medical Center President F. Nicholas Jacobs has mandated quality healthcare.

One good thing about this is that the Johnstown, PA government is also helping out the healthcare industry in the area by launching a three-pronged approach to improve quality in healthcare:

1. Pushing quality through public reporting.
2. Enforcing quality through the False Claims Act.
3. Incentivizing quality through payment reform.

Supplementing this approach is the “pay for performance” for physicians and hospitals. In other word, the government will be rewarding people for good performance. Read more…

In a related story, because of what Mr. Jacobs did, he was credited for being innovative. Here are a list of improvements that he has done:

1. Expanded emergency and obstetrics departments
2. Construction of “the ultimate education center�
3. Transforming the small town hospital into a showcase of state-of-the-art medicine and holistic alternatives
4. Extensive training for medical practitioners
5. Focus on patient control and preventive medicine

When improvement comes from leadership, a lot can be achieved.

Source:
The Tribune-Democrat

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