While in Liberal, Kansas, I presented some ideas to the board of directors and attended the public session of the board meeting. The director of maintenance made an request for an item that was not budgeted.
With winter coming, they needed to replace what they currently use to apply salt and sand to the parking lots in the winter, to prevent visitors to the hospital from slipping on ice. It’s a device that attaches to the back of a pickup truck, and it’s two parts. The first part is called an “agitator” and the other part is called a “flinger.”
No foolin’. It won easy approval.
Isn’t that just like life. To melt ice, to create change, to improve the safety of patients in healthcare, you’ve go to do a fair amount of agitation. Some people don’t necessarily like agitators, but if you don’t have agitators, no change will happen.
But it’s not just agitation. Once things are agitated a bit, you’ve got to start flinging ideas about. Otherwise the change will not spread and they’ll still be areas that don’t get the benefit of the change.
Kind of like when the proverbial you-know-what hits the fan.
If it’s not agitated and broken up before it hits the fan, it isn’t spread around enough to do good.
Got an idea to make things better for healthcare in a patient-centric way?
Get out there and agitate and then start flinging.
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