In the early morning hours of a typical Tuesday, Sarah Mitchell, MD, an experienced radiologist, sat in the dim light of her reading room, scrutinizing a series of lung scans on her computer screen.
Organizations and broader society often emphasize individual resilience in the workplace. We saw this on display among healthcare workforces throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, as individuals on the ...
Leaders must understand and address the underlying factors that contribute to catastrophic safety risk. Four years before BP’s Deepwater Horizon became global news, ExxonMobil walked away from a $187 ...
High-reliability organizations (HROs) focus on continuous identification and improvement of safety issues. We sought to advance a large, multisite radiation oncology department toward high reliability ...
As OhioHealth came out of the coronavirus pandemic, its quality and safety team decided there was a need to do an entire reset across the health system. OhioHealth has made becoming a high-reliability ...