{"title":"Sprint Teams Lead the Way to Rapid Improvement of Quality Indicators.","authors":"Ghazala Q Sharieff, Craig Uejo","doi":"10.1097/JHM-D-23-00017","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Patients frequently rely on Leapfrog safety grades, along with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) star ratings, when choosing healthcare providers. One Scripps Health hospital has routinely maintained an A from Leapfrog, while three have scored a C and one has fluctuated between a B and an A. The data that these programs use to grade and rate safety can be 2 to 3 years in arrears, so we decided to develop a proactive, disciplined strategy to identify areas in need of quick allocation of resources. With the rapid advancement of improvements, Scripps Health is now targeting consistently high marks throughout the organization. We prioritized several initiatives to build a systemwide approach for the five hospitals in the system. The initial results have been heartening. Recent Leapfrog ratings consisted of four A’s and one B, and the system made the Merative 2022 list of the top 15 U.S. healthcare systems.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JHM-D-23-00017","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Patients frequently rely on Leapfrog safety grades, along with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) star ratings, when choosing healthcare providers. One Scripps Health hospital has routinely maintained an A from Leapfrog, while three have scored a C and one has fluctuated between a B and an A. The data that these programs use to grade and rate safety can be 2 to 3 years in arrears, so we decided to develop a proactive, disciplined strategy to identify areas in need of quick allocation of resources. With the rapid advancement of improvements, Scripps Health is now targeting consistently high marks throughout the organization. We prioritized several initiatives to build a systemwide approach for the five hospitals in the system. The initial results have been heartening. Recent Leapfrog ratings consisted of four A’s and one B, and the system made the Merative 2022 list of the top 15 U.S. healthcare systems.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.