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Ken Rohde, Senior Consultant for The Greeley Company with over 25 years of experience in quality management. His roles in performance improvement and project management make him uniquely qualified to assist medical staffs and hospital leaders develop solutions to their toughest challenges. He instructs, speaks, and consults in the areas of error reduction strategies, root cause analysis, improving performance through process simplification, error reduction through effective procedure writing, apparent cause analysis, engineering effectiveness and error reduction, failure modes and effects analysis, effective data collection, analysis and trending, patient safety evaluation and improvement, change management, corrective action program evaluation and redesign, human performance evaluations, and procedure error reduction. Mr. Rohde also specializes in technology-based approaches to preventing human errors.

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Patient Safety Quality Monthly

Issue 10, November 8, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

Issue 9, October 15, 2006

• Does your medical staff have a comprehensive physician performance framework?

  At the Greeley Peer Review for Today seminar in Chicago a few weeks ago, we tried something new. We...

Issue 8, September 15, 2006

• Renewed Interest in Proctoring

  While proctoring has historically been part of our medical culture to create and verify physician...

Issue 7, July 15, 2006

• The One that Got Away

  Last month I wrote about the importance of the new JCAHO 2007 Patient Safety goal to increase...

Issue 6, June 15, 2006

• The 2007 JCAHO Patient Safety Goals: Patient Involvement

  The JCAHO recently announced the new 2007 patient safety goals and requirements. As usual they...

Issue 5, May 15, 2006

• Patient Safety and Memorial Day

  Memorial Day has brought thoughts of safety to mind in different way. While we take steps in our...

Issue 4, April 15, 2006

• Creating a Roadmap for

  At the beginning of this year, Mr. Ken Rohde joined The Greeley Company as Senior Consultant for...

Issue 3, March 15, 2006

• Why We Need to Do Peer Review Well

  This month's column is actually a speech by Dr. Michael McNamara given at a High Point Regional...

Issue 2, February 15, 2006

• Applying Medical Staff Quality Incentives

  Last month, I wrote on the topic of providing quality incentives for physicians as part of a...

Issue 1, January 27, 2006

• Providing Quality Incentives for Your Medical Staff?

  How can I provide incentives to my medical staff for quality performance and not go to jail under...