Illustrating the Course for Improvement at BW/F
Over the last year, BWH has articulated a renewed vision for Brigham and Women’s/ Faulkner Hospitals to provide the best patient care to patients, to support the growth and development of staff, and to excel in educational and teaching programs. BWH’s commitment to these goals requires continuous change and improvement; and as a result, multiple concurrent initiatives are underway throughout BW/F to support this vision.
A new BW/F Improvement Agenda logo has been created to better illustrate such initiatives. The new logo incorporates use of a “compass” that highlights the three aspects of the BW/F mission in the center: Patient Care, Research, and Teaching. The four major components of the BW/F Improvement Agenda, meanwhile, are shown in the outside quadrants: Quality & Safety, Service Excellence, Staff Development, and Financial Resources.
“The logo is a helpful visual for all staff to better understand components of our broad, all-encompassing agenda and vision,” said Cheryl Locke, BWH vice president, Human Resources. “It will also prove to be a valuable tool for department leaders to more simply communicate such activity to their respective teams.”
Look for the logo to accompany future BWH Nurse articles and other forms of communication that are associated with the BW/F Improvement Agenda.
The BWF Balanced Scorecard system, which has been implemented in Nursing Services since Sept 2003, will serve as a measurement and management framework to track progress in each of these four dimensions of performance and to identify focused opportunities for improvement.