Reducing Patient Cycle Time

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...

MSBI’s New Strategy Helps Patients, Staff and the Bottom Line

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...

1199SEIU Nurses Learn about Changing Roles at RNLMI Symposium

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...

LMP and Partners Present at National Health Care Conference

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...