http://www.readinessrounds.com We make hospitals safer. Wed, 22 May 2013 21:28:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/05/21/find-readiness-rounds-at-the-cleveland-clinic-quality-patient-safety-innovation-summit-may-22-24/ http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/05/21/find-readiness-rounds-at-the-cleveland-clinic-quality-patient-safety-innovation-summit-may-22-24/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 16:08:50 +0000 Anne http://www.readinessrounds.com/?p=5530

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The bombs at the Boston Marathon were designed to maim and kill, and they did. Three people died within the first moments of the blast. More than a hundred and seventy people were injured. They had their limbs blown off, vital arteries severed, bones fractured, flesh torn open by shrapnel or scorched by the blasts’ heat. Yet it now appears that every one of the wounded alive when rescuers reached them will survive. Medically speaking, [...]]]> http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/04/29/why-bostons-hospitals-were-ready/feed/ 0 http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/03/20/hospital-ratings-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/ http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/03/20/hospital-ratings-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:37:15 +0000 Angie Soden http://www.readinessrounds.com/?p=5352

How good a hospital is St. Mary Mercy Livonia Hospital? Depends on whom you ask. The Leapfrog Group, a respected nonprofit that promotes patient safety, gave an “A” to this Michigan hospital. The company Healthgrades named it one of America’s best 50 hospitals. But the Joint Commission, a nonprofit organization that accredits hospitals, and U.S. News and World Report omitted St. Mary from their best hospital lists. Consumer Reports gave it an average safety score [...]]]> http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/03/20/hospital-ratings-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/feed/ 0 http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/03/08/medical-errors-preventable-deaths-the-case-for-high-reliability-in-us-hospitals/ http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/03/08/medical-errors-preventable-deaths-the-case-for-high-reliability-in-us-hospitals/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:32:44 +0000 Angie Soden http://www.readinessrounds.com/?p=5296

Hospitals arguably have the most critical need than any organization to become High Reliability Organizations (HROs). What is a High Reliability Organization?  Many definitions have been advanced.  What is clear to most in the hospital industry is that working in a system that needs to make significant improvements in safety and quality results in disorganization and patient care that is less than satisfactory. The breadth and depth (10 miles wide and a hundred miles deep) [...]]]> http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/03/08/medical-errors-preventable-deaths-the-case-for-high-reliability-in-us-hospitals/feed/ 0 http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/02/07/quality-of-care-how-good-is-good-enough/ http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/02/07/quality-of-care-how-good-is-good-enough/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:43:27 +0000 Angie Soden http://www.readinessrounds.com/?p=5232

Israel has made impressive progress in improving performance on key measures of the quality of health care in the community in recent years. These achievements are all the more notable given Israel’s modest overall spending on health care and because they have accrued to virtually the entire population of the country. Health care systems in most developed nations around the world find themselves in a similar position today with respect to health care quality. Despite [...]]]> http://www.readinessrounds.com/2013/02/07/quality-of-care-how-good-is-good-enough/feed/ 0