A multidisciplinary, collaborative approach infuses every aspect of the enterprise-wide quality initiative that is being sponsored by leaders at North Memorial HealthCare in Minnesota. Linda Engdahl, R.N., M.S.N., director of Women’s and Children’s Services at Maple Grove Hospital, shares her perspectives on data-driven innovation, as a nurse leader and key team member.
Hospitals and health systems nationwide are struggling these days to create a healthcare system of improved care quality and patient safety, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, accountability, and transparency. Yet a small number of pioneering organizations are already charting a bold, clear course—among them, North Memorial HealthCare, a two-community-hospital health system based in Robbinsdale, a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, which encompasses the 300-bed North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale and the 100-bed Maple Grove Hospital.
