the groundwork strategy

Excellent piece on an amazing hospital that reached outside its walls. We happen to have personal experience at Nationwide and can say that the quality inside the walls is stellar as well!

Why this hospital treats its local neighborhood like a patient The doctors at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, realized that they couldn’t make progress with their patients’ health until they improved their lives outside the hospital, as well.

Excellent innovation! Very reminiscent of South Central Foundation and their goal of specialty access in 5 min (via phone consult) - nice pursuit of 2nd order vs 1st order change. One question that wasn't addressed is that of remuneration of the physician time for those in a FFS model. Anyone in Ontario know how that is addressed?

A made-in-Ottawa solution to get around long wait times to see medical specialists About a decade ago, two Ottawa doctors were puzzling over a common problem for family physicians trying to get answers for their patients: long waits for consultations with a specialist.Patients so…

Dealing w bias

Helen Bevan on Twitter “Very good article from the USA on the issue of unconscious bias at work. Tackling this kind of bias not only helps improve diversity, it elevates our leadership practices and improves outcomes https://t.co/34mvX4DX0l Via Graphic by ”

Indeed

Helen Bevan on Twitter “Why won't people change? There can be no sustainable organisational or system change without individual change. Change happens one person at a time & there are no shortcuts to this: https://t.co/ZDmRhvxrtQ By ”