Scripps CMO Explains Her Six Rs for Operations Excellence

Ghazala Sharieff, MD, MBA, who is Scripps Health’s corporate senior vice president and chief medical and operations officer, acute care, has developed a handy mnemonic to help staff members focus on practices that increase operational excellence.

Her six Rs — retaining staff, reducing length of stay, reducing costs and increasing revenue, repatriation, raising money through philanthropy, and reassessing and reimaging — are designed to improve clinical care and enhance the health system’s operating margin.

Dr. Sharieff’s six Rs were recently featured in a HealthLeaders article highlighting the effort.

Read the HealthLeaders article: Scripps Health CMO Pushes 6 Rs of Operational Excellence