Sprint Team Approach Yields Rapid Improvement in Leapfrog Quality Indicators.

Goal: Patient safety and quality care are two critical areas that every healthcare organization strives to grow and improve upon. At Scripps Health, specific efforts reviewed for this article were implemented to reduce hospital-acquired conditions and hospital readmissions that are components of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services programs and Leapfrog Hospital Survey scores.

Methods: Sprint teams, a novel approach to rapidly develop a checklist for lower-performing care improvement areas, were implemented after an internal review of existing tools and an evidence-based literature review.