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QICID: 24199
Title: Eyes on the Dashboard at Mercy Health System
Copyright: ASQ
Author: Daniels, Susan E.
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Subject: Healthcare industry, Customer satisfaction (CS), Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, Baldrige Award (MBNQA), Organizational improvement initiatives;
Series: Quality Progress, Vol. 41, No. 4, April 2008, pp. 42-44
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Abstract: For six years Baldrige award-winning Mercy Health System in Janesville, WI, had relied on the dashboard system to determine patient satisfaction, so when emergency department satisfaction dipped below 93%, it set off an alarm. An improvement team created by the executive council identified the source of patient complaints as increased volume due to the intermingling of urgent care and emergency room patients. Separating the two units and upgrading both facilities resulted in a 15% increase in patient satisfaction. The plan-do-check-act (PDCA) process was used throughout the action planning cycle, as it has been for all of Mercy’s improvement projects.
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