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  • Title: Self-audits. First step in TQM.
    Author: Davis VS.
    Journal: HRMAGAZINE; 1992 Sep; 37(9):39-41. PubMed ID: 10130745.
    Abstract:
    In the fall of 1987, West Paces Medical Center (WPMC), a 294-bed hospital in Atlanta, made a commitment to a new way of management, one that would make it a learning organization. The commitment would not be just to a higher quality of service, but would be a change in the way of doing business. The three components included in the hospital's quality improvement process were customer mindedness, process mindedness and statistical mindedness. West Paces employees concentrated on understanding customers and their needs, learning how they should perform each day to satisfy those needs, and routinely measuring the improvements made in daily processes. Led by Vicki S. Davis, director of quality resources, WPMC implemented, in November 1987, a program based on W. Edwards Deming's quality management method. One year later, 54 department managers had been trained in quality improvement. Davis shares her account of the quality improvement process on the following pages.
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