ABSTRACT
BHCS is committed to providing physicians, nurses, and other health care leaders with the knowledge and the tools needed to deliver STEEEP care. This commitment requires teaching health care providers the appropriate methods and necessary skills to improve health care quality. In 2004, BHCS founded the “ABC Baylor” course (now called STEEEP Academy), based on the Intermountain Healthcare mini-Advanced Training Program led by Brent James,1 to teach internal health care leaders theory and methods of rapid-cycle quality improvement. Course participants learn general principles of continuous quality improvement as well as health care-specific quality improvement tools and finish the course by designing and implementing a quality improvement project. STEEEP Academy training is an important part of BHCS’s work establishing the culture and infrastructure to support quality improvement and
has substantially contributed to its success in this area.2 STEEEP Academy training fits within the seventh Institute for Healthcare Improvement Leadership Leverage Point-to build improvement capacity.3
