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Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Join us for inspiring conversations with healthcare leaders and improvement experts. Virginia Mason Institute partners with organizations and executive leadership teams to develop and adopt a patient-centered management system to dramatically improve quality, safety and efficiency – with the goal of enabling and supporting the creation and evolution of a sustainable culture of continuous improvement. We seek to help organizations dramatically elevate the patient experience, eliminate waste and…
Episodes
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Women’s Health Care
Host Chris Backous speaks with East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust’s Amanda Rowley and Mona Modi about transforming maternal healthcare. Featured in this…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Culture of Care
Join host Brenda McLeod in conversation with Kuldeep Singh, Helen Cyrus, and Alice Forsythe about NHS England’s multi-strand Culture of Care Programme…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Bridge to Excellence with Three Rivers Hospital
Join host Brenda McLeod in conversation with Jamie Boyer, German Meza, and Karen Gifford about implementing a management system at Three Rivers, a rural…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Building connections in the operating theatre - with hats!
In our first-ever video episode, host Chris Backous chats with Liz Fitzhugh and Danielle Checketts about how reusable surgical hats are saving the environment…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Connecting Vision, Technology and a Structured Management Method to Accelerate Improvements at Foundation Health Partners
Host Chris Backous in conversation with Dr. Angelique Ramirez (Foundation Health Partners), Robbi Bishop (Virginia Mason Institute), and Ian Petersen (Stat)…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Engaging the Board
Host Brenda McLeod is joined by VMI Executive Director Wendy Korthuis-Smith and three guests to talk about engaging boards in process improvement. Featured in…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Engaging Physicians
Host Chris Backous is joined by three guests to talk about engaging doctors in process improvement. Featured in this episode: Wendy Korthuis-Smith…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
LEIPA - the Leadership Emotional Intelligence Performance Accelerator
Host Brenda McLeod is joined by three guests to talk about one of Virginia Mason Institute’s newest service offerings, the Leadership Emotional Intelligence…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Leeds Teaching Hospital - Using CI to solve a budget crisis
Earlier this year Leeds Teaching Hospital managed to save £16M ($20M USD) in the space of 2 weeks. Featured in this episode: Wendy Korthuis-Smith Chris…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
4. Systematizing Equity at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
Advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare has become a strategic imperative for all leaders in healthcare. But to make lasting progress, we can’t…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
3. Evolving Daily Management with Neha Patel
Leading with Daily Management is an important and foundational component of ensuring patients receive quality, timely care, while providing frontline staff the…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Webinar | Executive Roundtable: Lessons from the NHS-VMI Partnership Evaluation
Developing a culture of continuous improvement is an imperative as healthcare organizations face unprecedented challenges and strive for sustainability. Join…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
2. Lessons from SuperVax with Dana Nelson-Peterson
In our second episode of Better Never Stops, Virginia Mason Institute Senior Partner Melissa Lin interviews Dana Nelson-Peterson, Vice President of Nursing…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
1. Scaling and Spreading a Management System with Chris Stewart and Jackie Hartke
Chris Backous, Executive Partner of Transformation Services, interviews two of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health’s improvement experts, Chris Stewart and Jackie…
Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute PodcastWebinar | Embedding Equity in Continuous Improvement Systems and Leadership
In this session we explore what it means to take a systems approach to healthcare equity by purposefully embedding equity concepts in improvement methods…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Webinar | Fundamentals for Improving Flow in the Ambulatory Setting
Improving flow in the ambulatory setting can help you tackle backlogs and increase patient access, all while improving the staff and patient experience. Learn…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Webinar | The Role of Leadership in Addressing Burnout on the Frontline: A Systems Approach
Workforce burnout on the frontline is an urgent challenge that leaders must understand and directly address. It is imperative leaders understand the root…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Webinar | Developing Modern Leaders for a New Era in Healthcare
This is an audio recording of our webinar originally broadcast January 27, 2022. Today’s healthcare leaders face immense challenges that require a modern…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Webinar | Increasing Access and Throughput with a Unified Improvement Approach
[US Broadcast] Challenges with access and capacity are leading to increasingly long wait times for patients and exhaustion and overwhelm for our teams. With…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
UK Webinar | Addressing the Backlogs Crisis: Increasing Access and Throughput with a Unified Improvement Approach
[UK Broadcast] Challenges with access and capacity are leading to increasingly long wait times for patients and exhaustion and overwhelm for our teams. With…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Webinar | Improving Patient Safety & Care Quality Through Cultural Transformation
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center went from “good to great” by ditching standalone improvement projects and spearheading an entire cultural…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Webinar | Moving Forward Through Transition – Lessons to Stay Nimble in 2021
Learn about leveraging an improvement system to manage ongoing transitions due to COVID-19 with our panel of experts discussing key learnings from the crisis…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Webinar | Leadership Through Crisis Interview Series – Sue Anderson and Eli Quisenberry
A live interview webinar with audience Q&A – the second in our “Leadership Through Crisis Interview Series” featuring Virginia Mason President, Sue Anderson…
- Better Never Stops - The Virginia Mason Institute Podcast
Webinar | Leadership Through Crisis Interview Series – Gary Kaplan and Chris Backous
The first webinar in our “Leadership Through Crisis Interview Series” featuring Virginia Mason CEO, Gary Kaplan, interviewed by our Senior Transformation…