State Hospital Association Work
Achieve better health outcomes, strategically plan, and enhance competency in quality for healthcare systems in every state.
We have worked with State Hospital Associations across the country to innovate and enhance patient safety.
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associations we have collaborated with
Our Services
High Impact
Events
Digital
Hubs
The
Workshops
Design
Sprints
Our Areas of Focus
DEI &
Health Equity
We believe our ability to facilitate conversations that inform real strategies for improving diversity and health outcomes is the best way that our team can contribute to addressing systematic disparities in healthcare.
High Reliability
Organizations
We apply tried and tested principles of high reliability organizations to your healthcare organization to align teams on a process to minimize harm.
Clinician Burnout
& Wellbeing
We have developed a high-touch process aimed at identifying the pain points for clinicians in your organization, building a plan to eliminate those pain points.
Quality Improvement
Skills Training
We have developed a course which marries human centered design techniques and adult learning principles with the science of improvement. Quality Improvement Skills Training has been approved for 5 contact hours and is ready to deploy to your organization.
Nurse
Staffing
We aim to bring hospitals together to design, prototype, and test new innovative models for nurse staffing. Hospitals that engage in our nurse staffing offerings leave with fresh ideas on how to redesign their work and curate strategic models that are ready for implementation.
Fostering Community
Based Partnerships
We are adept at inviting the community to be part of the partnership and not just be a beneficiary. We use design methods to help build powerful business models and services that truly address social determinants of health and the fundamental challenges which hospitals and communities face.
Improving Clinical
Outcomes
We work with hospitals, health systems, and community-based organizations to move the metrics that matter. If your team is tasked with improving a clinical outcome, needs to spread a best practice from one setting to another, or needs help framing out your clinical quality improvement approach, then talk with us about how we can help align teams to achieve those outcomes.
Quality Advocacy
Showcase
We work with teams to create quality + advocacy showcases to demonstrate the value of quality improvement initiatives across your state. Highlighting your member’s efforts and sharing their projects with peers and key legislators helps you invest in the enhancement of quality and patient safety in your state.
Executive Strategy
Sessions
Since our inception, helping organizations design new business models, create compelling strategic plans, and fostering a ‘culture of innovation’ has been at the heart of our work.
About Us
We are a collection of strategists, entrepreneurs, artists, marketers, software developers, data scientists, public health professionals, sustainability fanatics & human centered designers. We enjoy living at the center of Design Thinking, Visual Thinking, Business Model Innovation & Sprinting Techniques. This equips us as a team to bring creativity, speed & rigor to the table for ourselves and our customers.
Our healthcare lead has over a decade of experience in state association work, leading quality improvement initiatives, workshops, trainings and high impact events.
FAQ
Our DNA: We yearn to impact this world through our work; we value creative thought partners and embrace the freedom to think boldly beyond the box. IMPACT: We exceed expectations and delight. We are strategic “dot connectors” that drive at speed and product quality. CREATIVITY: We are highly experimental. We are always curious. We respect, help, and push each other. FREEDOM: We have the freedom to learn and share. We love to laugh and be ourselves.
Yes! We love playing the role of subcontractor and “hero-maker”. Our team is adept at delivering for state and federal grants (CMS, CDC, etc.). We know you have deliverables and deadlines to meet and we are here to partner with you to do so in any scale. We have partnered with state associations and the AHA on varying length of terms, sometimes for years and sometimes for just a few months or one-off engagements.
Your organization and your members will be upskilled in human-centered design techniques. We will de-silo communication. We will get your members to think differently. We will challenge them, we will be thought partners with them, and through it all, we will have fun! We are a group of big, bold thinkers who value tackling wicked problems. We have experience globally and across many sectors and value sharing our deep and wide knowledge with all our partners. Most importantly, we will get things done. We will set clear objectives at the onset of our engagement, and we will work together with you to execute them in a timely, professional, and quality manner.
There is quite a variance in the range of costs for our offerings. Each project and each budget we curate is bespoke. It is based on the hours of our team on the programming, visual and digital fronts to create and deliver the work. Bottom line: If you have a budget, we will figure out a way to deliver value for you within it. We value openness and transparency around cost and always encourage having a conversation with us so we can figure out what we can deliver for you within the budget you are operating in.
We have partnered with state associations of all sizes and on all scales. We value your work above all else and view each engagement as a true partnership. No work is too big or too small for us. Reach out if you want to chat, and we can discuss it!
Absolutely! Your organization will always receive association-branded materials when we engage with you. These materials will be made available to you in both digital and paper form for use at your discretion post-event.
Contact Us
Let’s talk about design thinking. Get in touch with us to share your ideas and hear more about our human-centered approach to innovation.
We are business designers. We help you respect the past and invent your future. We love uncertainty, constraints and culture challenges. Let’s go on an adventure together.
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