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Article Abstracts St. Luke’s Hospital Breaks Out of the
Pack to Improve Patient and Physician
Satisfaction Faced with declining in-patient satisfaction scores, St. Luke’s Hospital implemented an organization-wide strategic initiative to improve performance by changing the culture. The hospital selected the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence as an improvement framework and subsequently introduced its “breaking out of the pack” strategy to accomplish the organization’s improvement goals. Utilizing lean tools along with behavioral-based initiatives, St. Luke’s saw its in-patient satisfaction scores quickly rise from the 49th percentile to above the 90th percentile while physician satisfaction scores rose from the 81st to the 95th percentile. As a result of its performance improvement initiatives, the hospital was named a Press Ganey Success Story recipient in 2007 and a Silver Award winner in the Iowa Recognition for Performance Excellence program. Registered Users - Read full article (PDF, 238 KB) |
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