Leading Medicine with Houston Methodist

Preventing infection and enhancing recovery are metrics for surgical quality of care. In this episode, Dr. Pedro Ramirez discusses efforts to standardize patient care, including implementing surgical site infection bundles and Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) initiatives before, during and after surgery to improve and improve patient outcomes.  Expert: Dr. Pedro Ramirez, chairman of the Depa...

Houston Methodist is one of the nation’s leading health systems and academic medical centers. In this wide-ranging episode, Dr. H. Dirk Sostman, Houston Methodist executive vice president and chief academic officer and president and CEO of the Houston Methodist Academic Institute (HMAI), discusses his remarkable 20-year career at Houston Methodist advancing quality of care through academic researc...

Health care safety is a public health issue. Despite progress, preventable harm remains unacceptably frequent. In order to reduce harm in all its forms, we need to know what causes it and why. In this episode, Dr. Tejal Gandhi, chief safety and transformation officer at Press Ganey, delves deep into the latest industry insights and offers recommendations for creating safer environments for patient...

Lean management focuses on continuous improvement through making incremental process changes to improve quality and efficiency. In this episode, Dr. Eric Dickson, president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health, shares how lean management principles transformed the largest not-for-profit health care system in central Massachusetts. Expert: Eric W. Dickson MD, MHCM, FACEP, President & CEO UMass Memo...

The world of vascular surgery comprises a wide range of specialties. How does a hospital system manage quality across fields to ensure the best patient outcomes possible during surgery and beyond? In this episode, Dr. Schaal discusses generational advancements in vascular surgery and the charge to manage quality across specialties in a large hospital system with Dr. Alan Lumsden, medical director...

What are health care accreditations and certifications? Why are they important? Who conducts them? Providing the highest quality care in the safest environments possible is both the goal and the responsibility of health care organizations. But how is quality defined and measured? And by whom? On this episode, Dr. Schaal discusses health care accreditation and certification with Mr. Kelly Proctor,...