Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

LAOP 2019 · No. 19

Standardization is Foundational

Teri Fontenot

From the recording

To me, standardization is just foundational. It is the place that you start, because there's a routine, a pattern, best practices.

Teri Fontenot

About this episode

Teri Fontenot, CEO emeritus of Woman's Hospital, refused to treat standardization as a dirty word. It is where you start, she said, because best practices and safe handoffs depend on it. But the people most affected by a decision belong in the room, which is how her hospital designed its replacement campus with patients, community leaders and frontline staff. Her warning to healthcare: don't let good reasons become excuses for not changing.

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