Readiness to Receive Assessment Tool
The Readiness to Receive Assessment tool helps organizations assess their readiness to implement an effective improvement project from another site or location. The tool has been slightly adapted from Kaiser Permanente鈥檚 鈥�鈥� and will support your organization鈥檚 informed decision-making to implement improvements successfully.听
The assessment should be used by your organization鈥檚 senior management, healthcare leaders, and front-line workers to address the question: 鈥淎re we ready to receive and implement this improvement from another organization?鈥�听
This tool is not a 鈥減ass/fail test.鈥� Instead, it鈥檚 intended to guide discussions and support informed decision-making, assist sites to be successful in their implementation efforts, and to help set realistic expectations. It may evoke important dialogue regarding issues of sponsorship, culture, resources or other enabling factors. The intent is to encourage critical conversations at the outset of a spread project, rather than when difficulties arise.听
In addition to using this assessment tool, organizations should ensure that the improvement itself is ready for spread, ideally by using the 鈥淩eadiness for Spread鈥� assessment tool.听
