Stanford Medicine Center for Improvement

a culture of continuous improvement across stanford medicine requires the establishment of a set of basic assumptions, values, beliefs, and norms by which improvement efforts will be governed, easily applied, and understood to consistently implement a unified approach to improving performance on all dimensions. we must develop quality and effectiveness infrastructure within clinical areas to provide the ability to execute on area-specific improvement efforts. these will be led by performance improvement leaders educated on performance initiatives. to be successful, there will need to be coordinated engagement of both faculty and non-faculty administrative and clinical staff. continuous improvement techniques must also be applied to non-clinical processes such as research and education. the goal of the stanford medicine center for improvement is to become the best at getting better – inspiring and accelerating the delivery of consistent, excellent care across stanford medicine measured