teams

Some of the brightest stars in the UBT constellation are at the San Diego Medical Center and its many satellite facilities. At a recent San Diego UBT fair, co-leads from departments throughout the medical center proudly displayed storyboards explaining their teams’ goals and their most up-to-date results on performance improvement. UBT fairs have truly become a best practice for sharing of ideas and allowing the people who do the work to explore with their fellow workers what’s working and what’s not.

I’ve been away from the blog desk.

Not really.

Too much to absorb; writing seemed to be irrelevant somehow. Observing, reflecting, making notes, all seemed more important, more respectful of the occurrences in our world.

It really is about the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Dr. Shawn Dufford, medical director of peri-operative services in Colorado, knows about teams. Through his performance improvement work in the OR, he has learned that every member of the team needs a voice to make sure the patient’s interests are paramount. In this guest blog, Dr.