Large scale performance improvement projects can boost profitability by 3-5% of revenue. Despite so much real upside, most ...

Harbor Freight sells a lot of affordable tools, and while some of them are worth avoiding, plenty will make for great ...

The Building Safety Regulator has a new plan to fix its long-standing problem with delays. Peter Apps examines whether these ...

Setting out on an accreditation journey can seem daunting. Success requires aligning diverse stakeholders, investing in quality tools and education, and prioritizing process improvement. Over the past ...

Quality improvement (QI) methods have been used extensively to support the delivery of safe, timely, effective, equitable, and cost-effective health care. While QI initiatives have demonstrated ...

New research from Cleveland Clinic highlights the benefits of giving nurses a voice in administrative decisions. To assess how participation in shared governance models was associated with job ...

Michigan's child care quality measurement and improvement system, Great Start to Quality, aims to help create a stock of high-quality programs for parents and help them find options. While nearly half ...

A major milestone has been reached in the Sharon Lake improvement process on Friday, with the lake once again starting to refill with water.Sharon Lake was first drained back in the spring of 2024, ...

In 2012, after completing her medical training at George Washington University, Jessica Logan, MD, FACP, was selected to be a chief resident for quality and safety at the Washington, D.C., Veterans ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, ...

Elissa Tucker is Principal Research Lead, Human Capital Management (HCM), at APQC. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in human resources research, writing and advising, Elissa develops and ...