Zusatztext 80557397 Informationen zum Autor David J. Ballard, MD, MSPH, PhD, FACP is senior vice president and chief quality officer for the Baylor Health Care System (BHCS), executive director of the BHCS Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, and president and founder of the BHCS STEEEP Global Institute. Dr. Ballard is responsible for leading health care quality across BHCS. Under his leadership, BHCS has received many awards for health care quality improvement, including the 2010 Medical Group Preeminence Award of the American Medical Group Association, the 2008 National Quality Healthcare Award of the National Quality Forum, and the 2007 Leapfrog Patient-Centered Care Award. Associate Editors: Neil S. Fleming, PhD, ASQ CQE is vice president and chief operating officer of the BHCS STEEEP Global Institute, which capitalizes on the health care system's successful strategies, tactics, and tools in health care quality improvement to enable other health care organizations to improve care while reducing costs. He previously served as the BHCS vice president for health care research for seven years, evaluating clinical and financial outcomes of BHCS initiatives with a major focus on health information technology, work in which he collaborated closely with Dr. Ballard. Joel T. Allison, MHA, FACHE is president and chief executive officer of BHCS. In this role, his primary responsibility is to lead the organization in attaining its vision "to be trusted as the best place to give and receive safe, compassionate, quality health care." To do so, Mr. Allison continues developing BHCS as a patient-focused health care delivery system and clinical enterprise that emphasizes quality, safe patient care, measurable outcomes and improvement initiatives, as well as continuous medical education and health care research. Paul B. Convery, MD, MMM served as senior vice president and the first chief medical officer for BHCS from 2006 to July 2013. Under his direction, BHCS was recognized with several important quality awards, including the 2008 National Quality Forum National Quality Healthcare Award and the 2007 Leapfrog Patient-Centered Care Award. Dr. Convery is currently serving as a senior consultant for the BHCS STEEEP Global Institute. Rosemary Luquire, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FAAN is senior vice president and chief nursing officer for BHCS. She joined BHCS as senior vice president and corporate chief nursing officer in 2007, the first nurse to serve in that organizational capacity. She is responsible for overseeing both strategic and operational issues that impact nursing practice and patient care across sixteen facilities. Klappentext As a system that has served urban, rural, and suburban populations, the Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) is an excellent case study on quality improvement. BHCS has recently formalized its commitment to quality with the adoption of the STEEEP framework that supports the Institute of Medicine's call for care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered (STEEEP). Telling the story of quality improvement at BHCS, this Shingo Prize winning book presents contributions from senior leaders in diverse fields, including physician leadership, nursing leadership, and quality improvement. Like a basic scientist who takes a discovery from the bench to the bedside, Ballard and his colleagues at the Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) have taken quality improvement from hypothesis-testing to application in a large delivery system. Their description of the historical context of quality improvement at BHCS and "lessons learned" is especially authentic for health care CEOs who attempt to walk the tightrope of performance improvement without a net. At the VCU Health System, we have used the STEEEP(t) acronym for years in our own journey toward...

The stewardship and focus of Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) documented in Achieving STEEEP Health Care provides the multi-dimensional journey to sustainable quality improvement needed to address America's health system challenges. Under the clear direction of its board and senior leaders, BHCS has firmly addressed the vital components of culture, knowledge, teamwork, alignment of incentives, and change expectations to advance BHCS towards its vision. Embedding the Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement under the direction of BHCS Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer, Dr. David Ballard and his team have provided the bench strength to implement and attain such needed change. Vision driving change to better care, an important read and roadmap to follow.Arja P. Adair, Jr., MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer, Colorado Foundation for Medical CareQuality of care is the central tenet of the promise that every health care provider makes to the patient. This text is a must for all those who believe that a constant search for better ways to assure and improve quality is an important part of keeping that promise.John Agwunobi, MD, Senior Vice President and President of Health and Wellness, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.Inspiring, motivational, evidence-based, 'can do' blueprint for incorporating quality into the organizational DNA and culture of complex health care systems. Practical tips like making the chief financial officer a quality champion and creating infrastructure for sustaining quality through transforming the professional nurse practice environment make this volume a must-read.Linda H. Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, RN, Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of PennsylvaniaAchieving STEEEP Health Care is a compelling and comprehensive book on improving quality. Baylor Health Care System's commitment to better health care is unmatched, and in David Ballard they found a person who can not only lead change, but also capture and characterize the key insights that will help the rest of us get on the path to superb care.Troyen A. Brennan, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, CVS Caremark The International Society for Quality in Health Care has taken a number of initiatives in its quest to 'inspire, promote and support continuous improvement in the quality and safety of healthcare worldwide,' one of which is to seek to enhance the quality of the 'patient journey'. I was impressed therefore to reference in this excellent publication from Baylor Health Care System to meeting 'the needs of the individual patient across the continuum of care.Achieving STEEEP Health Care comprehensively guides us through the operationalizing of the delivery of safe, efficient, effective, equitable and patient-centered care and as such it provides both a welcome focus and a useful practical guide to all who want the best for those in their care.Peter Carter, Chief Executive Officer, International Society for Quality in Health Care The American health care system is undergoing much needed and dramatic change driven by the need to be more efficient and more effective in delivering high quality and safe care that improves the overall health of the population and does not bankrupt the country in the process. What will this health care system of the future look like? The Baylor Health Care System, which this book outlines in such detail that it could be a cookbook for how to create a future health care system. David Ballard is the architect, STEEEP is the foundation, and this book is a roadmap of how Baylor Health Care System has made the journey to this new destination. Any health care leader faced with this inevitable transformation of their organization will find this book an essential part of their survival guide in the rapidly changing landscape that is the American health care system.David Classen, MD, MS, Chief Medical Information Officer, Pascal Metrics Associate Professor of Medicine and Consultant in Infectious Diseases, University of Utah Schoo…