The Institute for Healthcare Improvement and  the British Medical Journal with support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and others have developed a very useful site, QualityHealthcare.org, for anyone working on healthcare improvement. If you have not seen this, log-in and take a look around. It is free.

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"Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shall hear, among the uproar of empires and nations, the faint fluttering of wings, the gentle stirrings of life and hope. Some will say this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. Each and every one, on the foundations of their own suffering and joy builds for all." --Albert Camus -

On June 9th 2001, on another site http://marpie.weblogs.com/2001/06/09 I posted the above quote from Albert Camus. I like it so much I am reposting it.

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The Bureau of Primary Health Care has successfully jump started the 100% Access 0 Disparity movement in America. Spokane, WA area is implementing a similar approch.

There is a summary of the BPHC experience that is very enlightening, if you wish to switch from projects and programs to "movements". I highly recommend reading it if you need to scale up some initiative to include more stakeholders.

A remarkable overview of the journy and the liberating concepts is chronicaled by John Scanlon in "Extrordinary Results on National Goals: Networks and Partnerships in the Bureau of Primary Healht Care's 100%/0 Campaign". The PDF file can be downloaded from THIS LINK on IBM Center for The Business of Government site. The site section is "New Ways to Manage". I agree that it is a real revolutionary way to think about how to manage large scale change.

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