Healthcare

Performance Excellence for Healthcare Organizations

Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease and cancer. The Sterling Framework builds the leadership systems that prevent them.

Reliability, by design

For healthcare organizations to cut down on medical errors, they have to build an environment of high reliability and performance excellence — not hope for one.

The Sterling Framework equips leaders with the tools and strategies to create that environment, and to make improved patient safety a durable part of how the organization runs, not a one-time initiative.

Using the Sterling Criteria

What Healthcare Organizations Improve

Patient safety and loyalty

Healthcare outcomes

Workforce engagement

Financial and market performance

Community services

Leadership accountability

Results Follow Leadership Accountability

Training culminates with a leadership system that establishes organizational culture, defines values, and hardwires reliability and accountability to drive performance excellence. Sterling helps leaders build the culture that makes high reliability the default, not the exception.

In their words

Hear From Healthcare Leaders

Reliability Does Not Happen by Accident

John Kueven, President, WellStar Paulding Hospital Georgia

Be the Best Leader for Your Healthcare Organization

Roland J. Martinez, Deputy Director, Florida Department of Health in Broward County

High reliability doesn’t happen by accident. The Sterling/Baldrige Criteria framework provides leaders with a proven approach to drive high reliability and hardwire excellence.

John Kueven

President, WellStar Paulding Hospital Georgia

Leadership is a skill. It’s developed over time and practiced deliberately, consistently, and responsibly.

Roland J. Martinez

Deputy Director, Florida Department of Health in Broward County

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