title: Performance improvement: the organization's quest.
abstract: In today's health care marketplace, quality has become an expectation. Stakeholders are demanding quality clinical outcomes, and accrediting bodies are requiring clinical performance data. The Roosevelt Institute's quest was to define and quantify quality outcomes, develop an organizational culture of performance improvement, and ensure customer satisfaction. Several of the organization's leaders volunteered to work as a team to develop a specific performance improvement approach tailored to the organization. To date, over 200 employees have received an orientation to the model and its philosophy and nine problem action and process improvement teams have been formed.
authors.affiliation: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, GA, USA.
authors.forename: C O
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: McKinley
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Parmer
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Saint-Amand
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Harbin
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Roulston
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Ellis
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Buchanan
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Leonard
mesh_terms: D005845:Georgia; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*