Author Arvind Singhal writes about his day with Dr. Robert A.Lindberg, who guides his internal medicine practice with complexity science principles. Dr. Lindberg, who is listed in The Best Doctors in America and Guide to America's Top Physicians, uses insights about complexity science when he thinks about biology, nature, and the rythms of life, as well as heatlh and illness. It also influences his thinking about the doctor-patient relationship, and the relationships among individuals in the medical commmunity. .
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Hundreds of people at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia have joined SMASH, the organization-wide effort to fight Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). Using Positive Deviance, an innovative social change process, a broad cross section of employees have worked together to forge new solutions, new relationships and some very encouraging results in declining infection rates. . .
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Read about how Henri Lipmanowicz thinks about leadership and complexity science. His approach to leadership and his understanding of life in organizations are illuminated by memorable stories from his successful career at Merck and his work as with Plexus Institute, where he serves as Chair of the Board. The author of this story, the first in a new series of Plexus publications called Deeper Learning, is the distinguished communications scholar Arvind Singhal, PhD, Professor and Presidential Research Scholar in the School of Communication Studies, Ohio University. .
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This story is about the use of Positive Deviance played in efforts by the staff the VA hospital in Pittsburgh to eliminate MRSA transmissions. MRSA is a virulent pathogen that cannot be killed by most commonly used antibiotics. Many authorities recognize tht the fight against MRSA is more of a behavioral and cultural challenge than it is a technical and medical problem. .
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This story is about the quest at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) to eliminate the transmission of deadly healthcare associated infections, specifically Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus or MRSA. Using the social and behavioral change process Positive Deviance, the facility was able to engage the innovativeness and energy of hundreds of hospital staff members to uncover and create practices to prevent transmission of MRSA and to spread these practices to their colleagues. .
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Author Arvind Singhal converses with complexity scholars Reuben McDaniel and Ruth Anderson about how complexity inspired management principles impact the quality of patient care as well as the bottom line in nursing homes. .
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