Sentences with phrase «own improvement efforts»

Despite ongoing improvement efforts, Frankenberg notes that Coke Consolidated's supply chain faces challenges every day.

«A coaching and continuous improvement effort goes into all of our processes, whether sales, marketing customer service or accounting,» Powell says.

Our continuous improvement efforts are driving us to be better every day.»

In response to this decision and to MARD priorities, IRRI has offered support to Vietnam - led rice sector improvement efforts in key areas.

The Governor said the need to scale up the road improvement efforts arose from the fact that he had received many requests on rehabilitation of roads from residents, adding that many of the roads captured for 2017 were key roads that would have positive economic impact on the people.

And hospitals should monitor unintended consequences from targeted interventions, and ensure that quality improvement efforts in patient care are not neglected.

The authors discuss other studies that have shown the success of financial incentives in engaging physicians and residents in quality improvement efforts, particularly when the incentives are combined with an educational component.

«Sending letters to institution presidents with a formal request to designate a Postdoc Coordinator and to increase institutions» participation in the postdoc data improvement efforts (2010)»

In an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement efforts.

Educational improvement efforts, Eye concludes, should focus not on correcting a nonexistent overall deficit but on improving the academic performance of the students «in the lower portion of the performance distribution,» many of whom face social and familial challenges that interfere with their education.

Likosky and colleagues note that in Michigan and northern New England, cardiac care providers and hospitals have come together across their regions to pool data and feed reports back to each hospital and provider to drive improvement efforts.

The barley genome sequence also enabled the identification of regions of the genome that have been vulnerable to genetic bottlenecking during domestication, knowledge that helps to guide breeders to optimize genetic diversity in their crop improvement efforts.

«Our analysis provides a documented baseline for their improvement efforts.

Identification of these reasons could help direct future surgical quality improvement efforts and policy decisions designed to reduce surgical readmission rates, according to background information in the article.

They were supported by people from each clinic participating in a learning collaborative, who helped guide Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy implementation through quality improvement efforts.

«Hospital administrators, policymakers, surgeons and hospital epidemiologists can use these data to make a business case for quality improvement efforts focused on SSIs,» authors noted.

«Factors associated with catastrophic malpractice payouts present opportunities for targeted risk management and quality improvement efforts,» said co-author Martin A. Makary, M.D, MPH, a surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins.

«We wanted to better understand how NSQIP could be used to drive quality improvement efforts in our hospital,» said lead study author Amber Trickey, MSc, PhD, a surgery epidemiologist and biostatistician at Inova Fairfax Hospital.

As patient - safety and quality improvement efforts continue to gain momentum throughout health care, the need for accurate sources of information is crucial, yet the question remains: Is one resource better than another?

At a cost of less than $ 500 per patient each year, this modest quality improvement effort is projected to reduce the incidence of major complications, such as end - stage renal disease, which can cost $ 44,000 per patient each year.

In response to this decision and to MARD priorities, IRRI has offered support to Vietnam - led rice sector improvement efforts in key areas.

Sometimes, though, self - improvement efforts go too far...

You could get involved in your neighborhood, possibly around an activist or community - improvement effort.

Hospitals that maintain adequate nurse staffing in this environment are likely those that have «visionary leadership,» and are investing in both nursing and quality improvement efforts, rather than coping with a lack of staff by forcing nurses to work mandatory overtime shifts, Stone says.

After a lifetime of struggling with weight AND Type 1 diabetes, learning about the effects of low carbohydrate diets on health — and then evolving my diet to a low carb approach, I am finally succeeding in my weight loss and health improvement efforts!

In turn, Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, a Republican, would be able to appoint a Cabinet secretary to oversee school - improvement efforts.

Dubbed the DPS Renaissance Plan 2012, the purpose was to engage proven charter - school operators in the district's school - improvement effort.

94, state superintendent of public instruction for Montana, discussed school improvement efforts in her state and the importance of being a leader at the Askwith Forum on Friday, March 1.

94, state superintendent of public instruction for Montana, discussed school improvement efforts in her state at the Askwith Forum on Friday, March 1.

The power of that approach was amplified by another school - improvement effort: Skandera's department had also been reworking the state's end - of - course exams and early - grade assessments, as part of its efforts to implement Common Core standards.

The Washington - based research organization, which supports deregulation and market - driven school improvement efforts, gives the United States as a whole a D - plus in its report, «The Quest for Better Teachers: Grading the States.»

Both fans and critics of San Diego's closely watched school improvement efforts are applauding the choice of Carl A. Cohn, a former superintendent of the Long Beach, Calif., schools, as the system's next leader.

Generate an explicit theory of action and first - draft action plan that connects instructional rounds within your organizational landscape and other professional learning structures and instructional improvement efforts

an understanding that professional learning is accelerated by the disciplined study of individual improvement efforts.

My goal was to create a model that integrates research - based strategies into a unified whole that provides direction and coherence to school improvement efforts.

The kind of plan I describe is a systematic plan for designing, implementing, evaluating and learning from individual improvement efforts.

These are the starting points for any improvement effort and the baselines against which a school's improvement efforts are evaluated.

School improvement efforts can benefit individuals» earnings and balance state budgets, says Hanushek.

The improvement effort began more than 20 years ago when state legislators passed a major reform law that put rigorous academic goals and well - designed assessments front and center.

Accountability provisions such as these are likely to be muted under the new NCLB waivers, which stipulate that states must focus their improvement efforts on the lowest - performing 15 % of schools, but de-emphasize performance of student sub-groups in every school.

The Wallace Foundation has funded leadership improvement efforts in public schools in 24 states and has issued more than 70 reports on school leadership, from how principals are trained to how they are evaluated.

This focus on outcomes has its roots in her experiences in Texas, where during the 1980s and 1990s she was chief lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards and worked on several education improvement efforts piloted by business leaders, including a commission headed by billionaire H. Ross Perot.

Each of these programs address a particular problem of practice — using data, observing and analyzing teaching and learning in the classroom, engaging families meaningfully — and provides proven tools, protocols, and approaches for educators to practice and implement together for school and system - wide improvement efforts.

In 2004, McCown served as lead author of the commission's bipartisan report, Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action, which recommends policies to overcome existing barriers and make improvement efforts on school issues like low standards.

Teacher leadership is also critical for school improvement efforts to succeed.

In a strongly worded letter sent this month to chief state school officers, legislators, state board of education members, representatives of the National Education Association, and publishers nationwide, the Florida leaders point to the «pervasive» influence of textbooks and other classroom materials on the educational process and say that their state's school - improvement efforts «have been impeded repeatedly by the declining...

With the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement efforts.

Repeat the assessment yearly to track progress and determine where to focus improvement efforts.

An informal survey of several state Chapter 2 coordinators last week also revealed that while many officials approve of the Reagan Administration's proposal to increase funding for the program by approximately 50 percent, they do not think it will translate into many significant education - improvement efforts at the local level.

In these projects, students will help plan, implement, or assess a significant improvement effort that is of high priority to the organization, test their own theories of change, and reflect on their own leadership styles.