Performance Excellence Framework: Key Questions for Rural Hospitals Assessment
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework can be used as a systems-based framework for rural hospitals to develop and support critical success factors in key areas leading to performance excellence across the organization.
Key areas of the framework include:
- Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Patients, Partners, and Communities
- Measurement, Feedback, and Knowledge Management
- Workforce and Culture
- Operations and Processes
- Impact and Outcomes
Assess your organizations’ current capacity in each of these key areas to help identify opportunities for growth and development of system-based capacity for excellence.
Consider having a team of 6 - 8 people from across your organization complete this assessment independently, then use it as a tool for discussion to bring in perspective from across the organization, to understand varying perceptions, gain buy-in and identify opportunities and priorities for action.