Recent changes to health care reimbursements policy mandate hospitals to improve simultaneously on conformance and experiential quality. Conformance quality measures the level of caregivers’ adherence to evidence-based standards of care while experiential quality measures the level of...

Despite over a decade of attention on reducing medical errors sparked by the Institute of Medicine report, medical errors in hospitals remain prevalent. A plethora of potential solutions are suggested, yet their adoption rate is slow, partly due to implementation challenges, such as the tradeoff...

The case describes an organization's use of the science of improvement to transform their process quality from below average to top 10% in their industry. The case outlines the protagonist's strategy of developing internal experts who are trained in a common methodology for making improvement...

Healthcare policymakers use wait-time metrics to encourage hospital managers to improve the patient experience. In 2002, Massachusetts mandated that hospital managers develop processes to respond to boarding crises, which occur when emergency department (ED) patients experience long waits for...

Healthcare has traditionally focused on medical outcomes and financial performance. The big question is always, "How much is it going to cost?" What would happen though if healthcare also considered the question of "How does the patient feel?" This case looks at the Cleveland Clinic's attempt to...