Sunday, April 05, 2009

Doing "a Beth Israel"

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A friend at another non-profit in Boston related this story. The organization faces severe budgetary problems. At a small meeting of some ...
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Write back!

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We all send emails and most of us have figured out how to affix a "signature" to the bottom of them. It automatically gives our na...
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Saturday, April 04, 2009

Cleats not for sale

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Twice a year, my friend Ed ( Honora 's dad) and I run a cleat exchange for our town's girls soccer league. This started because we ...
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Reach out and open up, Globe!

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There is a very, very disturbing story in today's Boston Globe about the Globe itself. The NY Times company, which owns the paper, is d...
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Friday, April 03, 2009

Paul Solman on PBS tells the BIDMC story

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Paul Solman, on PBS' Newshour with Jim Lehrer, provided a view tonight of recent activities at a musical instrument company in Elkhart...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Peter Alexander tells BIDMC's and Rebecca's story

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I recently had a chance to meet Peter Alexander, from NBC News. He filmed the following segment about our hospital, which was broadcast ton...
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Residents learn LEAN, too

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Part of BIDMC SPIRIT is to infuse many of the LEAN process improvement principles throughout the hospital. A key constituency in this effo...
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MHQP goes for five in a row

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A note from Barbra Rabson, which I am happy to pass along: Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) today released the organization'...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Celebrating quality and safety at work

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Three years ago, our Board Chair, Lois Silverman, and her late husband, Norman, established the Silverman Institute for Healthcare Quality a...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Grand Rounds -- When things go awry

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Welcome to this week's edition of Grand Rounds, the weekly rotating carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere. (The host next wee...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Don't ever forget it

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A lovely evening event Saturday night -- a fundraising gala for the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Boston . They took ...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

And yet more birds

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Special for all the Twitter users out there. Great work, as always, by Walt Handelsman at Newsday .
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More birds of a feather

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Erin Ailworth at the Boston Globe writes a sweet story about several companies in which executives and staff, including our good friends at...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Birds of a feather

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Birders are trained to be alert for out-of-range birds passing through. Some of our neighbors noticed this Eurasian Teal in a nearby pond....
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Friday, March 27, 2009

Really, it didn't smell!

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A blast from the past this week from my good friend Steven C. Davis, President of Rackemann Strategic Consulting, Inc. Steve was head of th...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Inviting Grand Rounds submissions

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I have been asked to host medical Grand Rounds -- the weekly rotating carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere -- on Tuesday, March ...
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Tony was tops!

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I was invited to UMass-Dartmouth's Charleton College of Business today to spend time with faculty and students to discuss hospital-rela...
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Judy's hoping you will come

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Judy Kaufman is a former cancer patient who organizes occasional events to benefit the hematology/oncology patient care unit at BIDMC. This...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Er, thanks, we won't be needing that

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In today's email: I wanted to follow up on the information I sent regarding our private jet program. As you may know, Blue Star Jets h...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

At the ACHE

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Jim Conway, Senior Vice President of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , invited me to join him at the annual meeting of the America...
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