Pursuit of High Reliability Amid Diverging Hospital Priorities: Perspectives for 2015

CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwired - May 4, 2015) - Compass Clinical Consulting published a report today titled High Reliability Amid Diverging Priorities: Perspectives for 2015 that is a result of an ongoing dialogue with hospital accreditation and quality champions across the country about safety, quality, and clinical compliance.

WHAT IS A HIGH RELIABILITY HOSPITAL?
Hospitals are creating processes that are routine and repeatable with the goal of increasing reliability. Yet, routine and reliable have become somewhat synonymous. In a culture of high reliability, routine and reliable are very different and arguably opposing notions. Routines have variation -- and to ensure variation is limited, it must be better understood what deviations take place and why, and adapt accordingly.

CHALLENGES
In the face of healthcare reform and changing reimbursement, leaders are focusing efforts on population health, cost control, and value. These initiatives seek to create more efficient systems of care that use evidence-based pathways to reduce unnecessary services. They also aim to make the healthcare system easier for patients and clinicians to use. Yet data shows that in hospitals across the country are still experiencing unwanted and unanticipated variances in care, as well as inconsistent experiences.

ACHIEVING HIGH RELIABILITY
But there is a lot more to achieving a high-quality, consistently safe patient care environment than aspirations.

DOWNLOAD THE REPORT
Download "High Reliability Amid Diverging Priorities: Perspectives for 2015" to learn more about improving operations management for clinical care to deliver the highest standard of care with each and every patient encounter. And, how to better define what it means to achieve high reliability amid diverging priorities in a hospital environment.

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ABOUT
Founded in 1979 and based in Cincinnati, OH, Compass Clinical Consulting helps hospitals and health systems deliver safe, quality patient care through operational performance improvement, clinical management systems, and accreditation and clinical compliance readiness and response services. Compass also places change-agent interim healthcare executives and clinical managers.