Mercy Hospital St. Louis Leans into Labor & Birth Improvements

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Mercy Hospital St. Louis Leans into Labor & Birth Improvements

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Heather Thompson, MSN, RN, CENP , Women's Services, Mercy Hospital St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Tony Vago, MBA, MPA, CSSBB , Performance Improvement, Mercy Hospital St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Ashley M. Bell, MSN, RN , Performance Improvement, Mercy Hospital St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N), Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • By attending this presentation, the learner will be able to relate the importance of daily metrics to upholding process improvement sustainment.
  • By attending this presentation, the learner will be able to identify key components of a successful Rapid Improvement Event.
  • By attending this presentation, the learner will be able to explain the value of LEAN daily huddles in the workplace.

    • Submission Description:
    Through LEAN daily huddles and rapid improvement events, Labor and Birth has increased coworker engagement and patient satisfaction while seeing an 51% increase in on time induction call ins and a 22% increase in on time starts for OR cases. This LEAN approach has dramatically improved team understanding of accountable metrics, ideas to improve those metrics and communication across the organization. It has fundamentally changed how we operate our business for the better.

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    The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.