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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

You have to watch your competitors and seek to always adapt to changes in the market, and innovate for solutions. Additionally, companies with high turnover of skilled employees, such as health care workers and hi-tech positions, may have to wait some time to fill that vacant spot.

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How Whole Foods Market Innovates in Employee Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Providing employee health care has become a real challenge for businesses, especially in the United States, where costs keep rising inexorably. The fact that we are self-insured — the company itself pays their health claims, not an outside insurance company — makes us prudent about our costs.

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Proving It Through your Actions – a Guest Post from Steve Farber

Kevin Eikenberry

There is still time to vote for Steve or our other great nominees for the Best Leadership Blog of 2011. He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote. Are you showing by your example that you are a continually learning leader? Do it now !

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Maybe free markets, maybe capitalism, maybe the opportunity to earn a living through business, maybe that is part of the solution. Hunter: an Innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement.

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The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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To Radically Redesign Health Care, Start with One Unit

Harvard Business Review

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Leading Change in Health Care.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.