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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 12, December 11, 2008

• Red Alerts for Dashboards

  In a car or an airplane cockpit, the most important information is presented to the driver or pilot...

Issue 11, November 14, 2008

• PSOs: The Power of Aggregation of Data

  Recent changes in the laws at the federal level have established the ability to submit your...

Issue 10, October 9, 2008

• Patient Safety Organizations: Why should we join?

  In our June issue, we discussed what the Patient Safety Act is and that it called for the...

Issue 9, September 11, 2008

• Solutions to Help Facilitate Your Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEAs)

  The work that is done every day in our hospitals and healthcare facilities relies on the safety and...

Issue 8, August 14, 2008

• Red Alerts for Dashboards

  This month’s article was written by Ken Rohde, senior consultant at The Greeley Company. In a...

Issue 7, July 17, 2008

• Ask simple questions to manage your data

  Ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) struggling to keep up with increasing demands to collect, analyze...

Issue 6, June 12, 2008

• Patient safety organization

  Introduction Many healthcare organizations continue to struggle with the reluctance of physicians...

Issue 5, May 15, 2008

• Rapid cycle improvement

  What is rapid cycle? Rapid cycle is the use of standard quality tools with skilled facilitators to...

Issue 4, April 14, 2008

• Why Data is So Important

  Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the book Making Your Data Work by Ken Rohde...

Issue 3, March 13, 2008

• The Culture of Safety Transformation

  Note: This e-newsletter is based on a segment of The Greeley Company seminar Breakthrough to...

Issue 2, February 14, 2008

• Incident reporting: A key to improving patient safety

  Reducing medical errors has become a prime focus of healthcare organizations and external agencies...

Issue 1, January 11, 2008

• New Service FMEA: Developing high reliability

  As a former director of quality and risk management, and in my current position as a quality...