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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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Issue 12, December 13, 2007

• Are you a hero for patient safety?

  On December 6, I read a newspaper article about five of the remaining survivors of Pearl Harbor...

Issue 11, November 15, 2007

• Measuring process vs. outcome: Is the pendulum swinging back?

  At our recent seminar about public accountability for quality in Palm Beach, I was teaching the...

Issue 10, October 23, 2007

• Creating a culture of data acceptance and external accountability

  The two common and related themes affecting our healthcare culture today are accountability and...

Issue 8, August 23, 2007

• What is the medical staff's role in hospital patient safety training?

  As more hospitals train their staff members in specific safety tools and behaviors, the question...

Issue 7, July 31, 2007

• July Ezine

  This month's column is written by Marla Smith, MHSA, associate consultant with The Greeley Company...

Issue 4, May 24, 2007

• Have you heard of the

  Creating a positive culture for patient safety is a goal of many hospitals today. One method...

Issue 3, March 28, 2007

• How much Physician Performance Data should a Board Receive?

  I recently received the following question: "How much detail on physician performance should go to...

Issue 2, February 16, 2007

• How do we Respond to Physicians' Classic Critique to Data?

  A major shift in peer review for medical staffs across the country is a lessening of dependence on...

Issue 1, January 19, 2007

• Should we pay physicians for performing peer review?

  As physicians are more pressed for time to devote to medical staff responsibilities, the burden...