Kaizen: Getting Better by Working Together

Kaizen: Getting Better by Working Together


A Team Approach to Quality Improvement

Hear administrator Bill Pierce from Heritage House in Shelbyville, IN describe how he threw his old QA quarterly (boring) meetings out the window, and in their place, redesigned three key elements:

  • Management Team daily rounding became ways to be accessible and supportive to the staff

  • Management Stand-Up expanded to include staff closest to the residents

  • QA became short, frequent, and focused QI meetings with staff teams, including on-the-spot QI for individual incidents