Workforce performance is critical for 2011 Baldrige Award recipient, Henry Ford Health System. Encompassed by their professional work ethics, they do a superb job of answering the Baldrige Criteria question in section 5.2, “How does your workforce performance management system support high-performance work and workforce engagement?” Henry Ford Health System’s work improves daily with technology advancing throughout the healthcare industry. Doctors use this new technology to treat diseases like prostate cancer more efficiently. Studies are then practiced to show how effective these new innovations can be.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in U.S. men. Robot assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a new procedure that has been pioneered by the Henry Ford Health System in order to minimize the risks associated with what was typically such an invasive surgery. HFHS executed the first ever RARP and was globally recognized for their achievement. With the robots’ help, doctors can now make tiny incisions using minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. Before this, doctors were making long incisions into the lower abdomen to remove the prostate gland utilizing a procedure called open radical prostatectomy (ORP).
HFHS scientists performed a nationwide population sample in which RARP’s success rates were compared to traditional prostate removal surgical methodologies. 19,278 patients were tested at 647 medical institutions. 11,889 patients were treated with RARP and 7,389 patients were treated with ORP. RARP patients were less likely to have a blood transfusion, less likely for a…
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