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Organizational Health Care with N2Growth: When was your Last Check-up?

N2Growth Blog

IT’S TIME TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH! Schedule an appointment with your organization’s health care provider (you do have one right?) to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them. Your operations deserve a longer, healthier life.

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Why Better Planning Can Save Millions Of Dollars In Operating Rooms

The Horizons Tracker

The tremendous importance of the work that is undertaken in hospital operating rooms would perhaps lend one to think the work is optimized to within an inch of its life. However, with increasing pressure on health care organizations, they are trying to find ways to jointly increase quality and reduce costs.”. Unplanned costs.

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To Improve Health Care, Focus on Fixing Systems — Not People

Harvard Business Review

When efforts to improve health care, the failures are often blamed on leadership and culture. To generate better outcomes, increase safety, and improve efficiency, health care organizations should shift their focus to designing systems that facilitate delivery of the highest-quality care.

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The Ecosystem Economy

Leading Blog

Sectors like construction, real estate, automotive manufacturing, financial services, and health care have been thought of as distinct categories, each operating in its own spheres. McKinsey partners Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz illuminate that change in The Ecosystem Economy. The borders between sectors are dissolving.

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What Space Exploration and Health Care Can Teach You About Navigating Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Space exploration and health care have cornered the market in this level of preparation. From the takeoff and landing of a space shuttle to managing uncontrollable bleeding in the operating room, there are vital lessons to be learned from these industries and adapted into others.

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Helping New Employees Into Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

The program, operated by Inspira in partnership with the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, aims to provide job seekers with employability skills and practical work experience. The program guarantees a job interview for a Health Care Assistant position at the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Trust upon completion.

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Managing Change in Health Care

Coaching Tip

For example, many hospitals are now engaged in making changes to improve their performance and the quality of care they provide. One approach has been to empower any member of the surgical team to call a halt to the operation so the team can reassess how the procedure has been handled and to point out deficiencies.