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  • Title: Development of a business plan for women's health services, using Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria.
    Author: Caramanica L, Maxwell S, Curry S.
    Journal: Semin Nurse Manag; 2000 Jun; 8(2):81-5. PubMed ID: 11249281.
    Abstract:
    A new process for business planning at Hartford Hospital was needed to achieve critical business results. This article describes the Hospital's use of the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria as a way to standardize and improve business planning. Women's Health Services is one of Hartford Hospital's "centers for excellence" and one of the first to use these criteria to improve its service. Staff learned how to build their business plan upon a set of core values and concepts such as customer-driven quality, leadership that sets high expectations, continuous improvement and learning, valuing employees, faster response to market demands, management by fact, and a long-range view of the future.
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