SAN DIEGO– The Mentor, Train and Evaluate (MTE) program, led by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), brought their knowledge and capabilities to the West Coast for the first time, with a visit to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) from Aug.14-18, 2023. The primary goal of MTE is to strengthen […]

Author: Paul Dean, NOVACES (Washington, D.C.) Amidst the uncertainty of the current environment, the currency of information expires within a few short weeks, sometimes merely within days.  Indeed, the global outlook in February 2020 is entirely alien in the context of what we now know two months later.  However volatile our predicament may seem though, […]

After seeing the benefits of becoming a High Reliability Organization (HRO) in other industries, Military Healthcare System (MHS) is transforming into an HRO, as mandated following a  Secretary of Defense ordered review of safety, access, and quality in 2014.  This review stated that, “The foundation for improving performance in the MHS rests on combining the concepts […]

NOVACES presented on Wednesday, June 11 at the 2014 Project Management Symposium, sponsored by The Project Management Institute’s Silver Spring Chapter. Their presentation, Taming the Chaos in the Annual Capital Budgeting Process with Multi-Project Critical Chain, was presented by Hilbert Robinson and covered the use of project portfolio management and critical chain concepts to improve […]

The Emergency Department improvement team began developing their current state process map and found out very early on that imagining their process and getting it down on paper was not an easy task.  There were disagreements for sure on how the actual process looks, but the most difficult thing was deciding how to map out […]

Today Many put the start of the quality revolution with the NBC Television’s show “NBC White Paper.” On June 24, 1980 Lloyd Dobbins introduced W. Edwards Deming to America in an episode entitled: If Japan can… Why can’t we? The show addressed how Deming’s advice on continuous process improvement and recognizing that manufacturing is a […]

NOVACES Awarded Contract with Department of Veterans Affairs Acquisition Academy to Provide Training for the Supply Chain Management School The Veterans Affairs Acquisition Academy (VAAA) will receive Principles of Inventory Management Training from the NOVACES and APICS DC Metro team under this five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement. NOVACES, a leading management consulting and training firm for […]

Yesterday How does an integrated approach to performance improvement in healthcare differ from historical quality improvement? First let’s do a quick look back at quality improvement. Within healthcare we could go all the way back to Hippocrates, but let’s stay a little more contemporary. Most people like to start with Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis or Florence […]

What is my role as the Lean Six Sigma Project Champion? The Champion for your organization will be utilizing key resources to fulfill the project requirements and will need to ensure that each project is an organizational priority and that it has leadership support at the executive level. Champions must have an understanding of the […]

I have great news to report since our last post about the Patient-Centered Medical Home initiative with our client on the west coast. There were 10 facilities that still being evaluated as of that post. We were just notified that all 32 facilities are now accredited for Level III NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home. NCQA ’s Patient-Centered […]