Apr 11, 2018
An average visit to a doctor at Maimonides’ 9th Avenue Women’s Primary Care Center used to take about three and a half hours. That is no longer the case. Working with consultants from the Labor Management Project (LMP), a process improvement (PI) team was able to cut...
Jan 12, 2018
How can labor and management collaboration help transform a large healthcare system? We all know that the New York healthcare landscape is encountering many challenges, including closures, consolidations and increased competition. In January 2016, Mount Sinai...
Jan 10, 2018
Eva James, an RN and 1199SEIU contract administrator for Mount Sinai Beth Israel, walked down the hall at the Brooklyn Marriott with a smile on her face. “The RN Symposium was great,” she said. “I learned so much about how hospitals are shifting to larger healthcare...
Jan 10, 2018
Three storyboard presentations that show projects from the Labor Management Project (LMP) and its partners were selected to be displayed at the prestigious Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 2017 National Forum in December. The projects were the work of Montefiore...
Sep 15, 2017
Thanks to recent quality improvement initiatives, staff and patient relationships and staff’s ability to solve problems have improved significantly at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center (BLHC), according to recent surveys. The improvements are the result of the...
Jul 14, 2017
When staff from the KP5 unit in Mount Sinai Hospital’s Women and Children Services Department gathered to be a part of a new process improvement project, the unit was known as a bit of an underdog, according to KP5 Manager Ann Clampet. “Our unit was having...