Journey to Excellence: How Baldrige Health Care Leaders Succeed
Health reform is making it clear: healthcare organizations improving to great clinical, financial, and experience outcomes will win and thrive for the communities they serve. Yet research teaches us that most change fails. Journey to Excellence, through brutal truth, inspirational storytelling, courageous journeys, disciplined research, and sustained results, shows us the way, the very hard way, as well as the awesome possibility. --Jim Conway, SVP, Institute for Healthcare ImprovementW. Edwards Deming spoke of consistent, business-driving quality as arising from a system of production. At best, health care delivery in most places today is bubbling chaos. The Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award supplies the only practical, comprehensive outline for health care as a system of production in existence today. It s about time that health care leaders had a comprehensive guide. Taught by experts, this volume is drawn from careful analysis of those who have succeeded. You hold the future in your hands at least, for those who will not only survive, but thrive in the coming turmoil of health care reform. --Brent James, MD, Intermountain Health CareJourney to Excellence is an insightful synthesis of the powerful Baldrige framework and the real life journeys of the healthcare award winners. Their stories will deepen understanding both for those new to and experienced with the Baldrige Criteria. This book is a major contribution to achieving healthcare excellence! --Louise Liang, MD, Former Chair, Institute for Healthcare Improvement