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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

Ambiguity prevents organizations from operating with focus, discipline, and engagement. Karen’s broad understanding of work system design and business management stems from her experience building and managing operations for several rapid-growth organizations that each grew into multi-billion-dollar companies.

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Lessons from Mayo Clinic’s Redesign of Stroke Care

Harvard Business Review

At the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Stroke Center Practice, we conducted a project to design and deliver care more customized to the needs of individual patients while reducing cost and resource constraints. However if one could predict a patient does not need such care, this could save the system, as well as payers, a lot of money.

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How Mayo Clinic Is Simplifying Prenatal Care for Low-Risk Patients

Harvard Business Review

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. In 2016 it was added as a standard care option at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

Health care systems are transforming themselves to deliver the “Triple Aim” of providing better care and a better patient experience, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care. Mayo was the first care-delivery group to receive this delegated authority. Authority and Structure. Review and approve QIPs.

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Bank of America: Yesterday and Today

Coaching Tip

Many investors are trying to put their arms around Bank of America’s problems and have been left fluttering in the wind,” says Mike Mayo, a bank analyst with Crédit Agricole in New York. Countrywide also saddled Bank of America with many more homeowners in default than its system could possibly handle.

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

The challenges of combining and managing the resources and operations of the different organizations and aligning their cultures may actually make the goal of integrated, patient-centered care much harder to achieve. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. What’s the alternative? What’s the alternative?

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

When redesigning the new and expanded emergency room at the Mayo Clinic’s Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo leaders didn’t just want to add more rooms and square feet. They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs.