Patricia Morrill

Patricia Morrill

PMP, EDAC

WI, US
Spark the change agent inside you and your healthcare team with motivational, action-oriented sessions that equip you to lead change.

With 30 years of experience in healthcare, Patricia Morrill is the President of PM Healthcare Consulting, LLC and has lead change initiatives of various magnitude. Her experience in healthcare operations, performance improvement, project management and Lean facility design gives her a full-spectrum view of the challenges and the accelerated pace of change.

Patricia is the author of "The Perils of Un-Coordinated Healthcare: A Strategic Approach toward Eliminating Preventable Harm," a forthcoming book in early 2017.  

Patricia's training and extensive experience enable her to coach executives and their leadership teams in strategic change readiness, performance-driven prioritization, and call to action planning.

She earned certifications in:

Lean Healthcare
Six Sigma Green Belt
Project Management
Evidence-Based Design

Patricia enjoys serving as faculty at national conferences, panelist, and instructor for customized workshops. She is the Education Chair for ASQ's Lean Enterprise Division, and a Professional Affiliate with the Center for Health Design.

As your speaker, Patricia will ignite the change agent in you and your healthcare team!

With 30 years of experience in healthcare, Patricia Morrill is the President of PM Healthcare Consulting, LLC and has lead change initiatives of various magnitude. Her experience in healthcare operations, performance improvement, project management and Lean facility design gives her a full-spectrum view of the challenges and the accelerated pace of change.

Patricia is the author of "The Perils of Un-Coordinated Healthcare: A Strategic Approach toward Eliminating Preventable Harm," a forthcoming book in early 2017.  

Patricia's training and extensive experience enable her to coach executives and their leadership teams in strategic change readiness, performance-driven prioritization, and call to action planning.

She earned certifications in:

Lean Healthcare
Six Sigma Green Belt
Project Management
Evidence-Based Design

Patricia enjoys serving as faculty at national conferences, panelist, and instructor for customized workshops. She is the Education Chair for ASQ's Lean Enterprise Division, and a Professional Affiliate with the Center for Health Design.

As your speaker, Patricia will ignite the change agent in you and your healthcare team!

Injecting the Fundamentals of Change into Healthcare

This session is intended to spark the change agent inside you!

Why do we tolerate preventable medical errors being the third cause of death in the U.S.?
Learn how to inject the fundamentals of change to raise the level of urgency of performance improvement.  First, makes the change itself discussable before launching teams to work on improvement solutions.  This will expose the impact of the change on the organization and various stakeholders.
ChangeEducational / Informative

Create Capacity for Improvement: Accelerate Pace

1. Theory: Leadership Structure: A new leadership model is necessary to realize the depth of change required in healthcare delivery. Adopting new behaviors and new thinking is critical to the development of people and building their capacity to solve problems and improve processes.

Application within a health system will be shared by my co-presenter.

2.     Theory: Continuous Learning: Developing a culture of...

Performance ImprovementEducational / Informative

Lean A3 Problem Solving

The Lean A3 Problem Solving process provides a systematic approach to investigating the real (vs. assumed) problem. To avoid jumping to solutions prematurely, the A3 process helps in identifying strategies to eliminate or at least mitigate the problem. This course leads participants through the A3 process while demonstrating the power that
assumptions, observation, and communication have on problem resolution. With a combination of Plan/Do/Check/Act (PDCA) and project management...
Lean Kaizen / TPSEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Risk Assessment for Healthcare Decision Making

Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a valuable risk assessment process that should be used more often in healthcare problem solving and decision making.  Proactively assessing potential risks can help you prevent or lessen harmful, costly consequences to your organization or patients.  The Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) risk assessment promotes discussion by providing a step-by-step process for teams to analyze what could happen, and to assign values...

HealthcareEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Integrating Lean and Project Management to Lead Change in Healthcare

Starting with a brief overview of Lean and project management basics, this presentation delves into leadership commonalities.  The value of integrating these methodologies for a more robust, problem-solving approach for  leading change will become evident.  Participants will learn action-oriented steps to drive performance in their fast-paced healthcare environments.

HealthcareEducational / Informative

Strategic Plan Alignment

How do we understand the priority of projects unless we link them to the strategic plan?  Planning for realistic capacity of human resources, budgets and schedules needs strategic alignment.  This session shares helpful processes for bridging the divide between projects and strategic level information to achieve successful outcomes.

Project ManagementEducational / Informative