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  1. Develop, test, and evaluate methods for reducing variability in health care delivery processes
  2. Consult with health care providers in assessing variability and implementing changes that improve operations in their facilities and organizations





  3. Carry out research that advances and refines the application of Operations Management (OM) principles and practices and Variability Methodology (VM) to the health care delivery system

  4. Disseminate findings regarding best-practices for reducing costs and improving quality of care through:
    • training
    • publications in peer reviewed journals
    • workshops and seminars
    • continuing education programs

These initiatives are all designed to illuminate the importance — and catalyze the development—of delivery-process improvements, in order to control health care costs and improve quality of care.

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In response to growing hospital demand, the Institute for Healthcare Optimization has been created.

Click here to calculate your estimated return after implementing Phase I of OR redesign.  This worksheet will help you to understand some of the incremental benefits associated with Variability Methodology. This worksheet requires a password.  If you are interested in learning more about variability methodology and using this worksheet to see how Phase I of OR redesign could help your hospital, please fill out the form on our contact page.  Otherwise please proceed here.

Click here to learn about the April 23 to 24, 2009 IHI-sponsored seminar on Reengineering the Operating Room to Improve Hospital-Wide Efficiency and Quality. Six MVP staff/faculty conducted this first-of-a-kind seminar.  We will be repeating this program on October 5-6.  Check back soon for more details.

Click here to access the guidance document, Improving Patient Flow and Throughput in California Hospitals Operating Room Services, prepared by the Program (MVP) for the California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF) and made available through the California Hospital Association (CHA).

Click here to read about the Program's role in developing and carrying out the recommendations in the recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System.

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