Using TQM Strategies A major contribution . . . an authoritative, comprehensive overview of health care TQM accessible to executives and practitioners alike.
--Glenn Laffel, editor, Quality Management in Health Care
Drawing on the lessons they learned in their own hospital, the authors show you how to utilize the philosophy of continuous improvement in all business and clinical functions, employ teams for problem solving, and continually strive to meet and exceed customer needs. The authors provide guidance for realizing broad-scale organizational change, and describe how to improve speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in a hospital environment.
ELLEN J. GAUCHER is senior associate hospital director and chief operating officer of the University of Michigan Hospitals in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is coauthor, with Richard J. Coffey, of Transforming Healthcare Organizations: How to Achieve and Sustain Organizational Excellence (Jossey-Bass, 1990), which received the 1992 James A. Hamilton book of the year award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. RICHARD J. COFFEY is director of management systems at the University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, and an adjunct assistant professor in industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan.