Back in 2004, several  hospitals (9 being the number) in the State  of Michigan began implementing a new procedure in their intensive care units . It was called “Keystone ICU Project”  Just about overnight, most in healthcare  were stunned ( shocked more like it) with its success.

Three months after it began, the procedure had cut the infection rate of I.C.U. patients by sixty-six percent. Within 18 months, this simple one method had saved 75 million dollars in healthcare expenses. Best of all, this single intervention saved the lives of more than 1,500 people in just a year and a half. The strategy was immediately published in a blockbuster paper for the New England Journal of Medicine.

This medical miracle was also simpler that you could ever imagine….. It was a simple checklist. To make sure that when doctors or nurses were putting in a Central Line in a Patient they were to :

#1 wash their hands with soap

#2 clean the patient’s skin with chlorhexidine antiseptic , to name a few.

You get the point all it was was a simple check list to  remind the Staff of the simple things that they maybe forgot.  For most of some  of us who own a small business it is important to make a list of the simple things that have helped your business to grow.   Or sometimes in life we need to remember the ” simple ” things like conversation that means something in a relationship, or like saying ‘Thank you”  as Always it is your choice.