title: Simplicity is best: the learning experience of Good Shepherd Home.
abstract: Quality improvement efforts need not be expensive and can produce positive results almost immediately if a systemic, comprehensive model is used and if top-level management is truly supportive. The following article presents a case study of a successful quality improvement process mounted at Good Shepherd Home, a rehabilitation hospital in Allentown, PA. It discusses the key items of the systems approach and looks at how the items have been implemented and integrated and the future of the process.
authors: Good Shepherd Hospital, Allentown, PA, USA.
authors: M E
authors: ME
authors: Place
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Roth
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D009042:Motivation; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D013597:Systems Analysis; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016526:Workload