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Richard E. Berlin (1894–1986) was the president and chief executive officer of the Hearst Foundation.
Jan 29, 1986 · Richard E. Berlin, who served as top manager of the Hearst Corporation for 32 years, died yesterday at his home in Rye, N.Y. He was 92 years old and had worked for Hearst for...
Jan 31, 1986 · Richard E. Berlin, president and chief executive officer during much of the financially troubled years of the Hearst Corp., has died at his home here. He was 92.
Feb 2, 1986 · Richard E. Berlin, president and chief executive officer during much of the financially troubled years of the Hearst Corp., has died at his home here. He was 92.
- Introduction
- Setting
- CRM Tools
- Results
- Examples
- Environmental Factors
- Protocol Development
- Briefing Information
- Tunnel Vision
- Staff Empowerment
Despite continuous improvements in surgical and anesthesia techniques, including the use of less invasive surgical approaches,1 preventable medical errors account for more deaths annually than breast cancer, automobile accidents, or drowning.2 Poor communication among health care workers is widely recognized as the most common cause of these errors...
Memorial Healthcare System (“Memorial”), the fifth-largest public health care system in the nation, has a reputation for providing advanced medicine and technology, and high quality health care services to South Florida residents through its 6 hospital facilities. Memorial and its facilities have earned many awards and accolades including the Ameri...
CRM training was introduced within Memorial in late 2007 with the goals of creating a culture for patient safety through improved communication, teamwork, and decision making among professionals in its operating suites. The assistance of a hospital consulting group with considerable experience in CRM Patient Safety programs was enlisted to help imp...
Through CRM training that emphasizes communication and standardized processes, Memorial has experienced outcomes that include improved quality, improved safety, reduced untoward outcomes and sentinel events, improved patient experience, and improved patient satisfaction. Although it is a natural and inevitable human condition to revert back to poor...
To further demonstrate how debriefing works to facilitate teamwork and promote a better culture for patient safety, we present several examples—some fairly straightforward and some that address the very core of teamwork and communication issues within the operating suite. It is our intent to demonstrate how the actions generated from debriefing can...
During open-heart surgery, a monitor measures brain function and blood flow to the brain during cardiopulmonary bypass procedures. In one such procedure, the view of this monitor was obstructed by other equipment. Since the monitor’s information was not visible to all the staff, appropriate adjustments during the surgery were not made as quickly as...
After separating a pediatric patient from cardiopulmonary bypass and experiencing difficulty ventilating the patient, the anesthesia team recognized that they should perform more frequent blood gas analysis to ensure that the patient is appropriately ventilating and oxygenating post bypass. In the debriefing that followed, the anesthesia team devel...
In one cardiac debriefing session, the team identified that by routinely addressing the type of anticoagulant the patient is taking during the presurgical briefing sessions, each team member would be more alert as to how it might affect the patient’s response to surgery. By incorporating information about the type of anticoagulant the patient has b...
A female patient was to receive a tracheostomy as a palliative measure. As is typical the surgical team expected a 30-minute procedure. However, the surgeon encountered difficult anatomy and consequently performed a major neck dissection and at one point considered aborting the procedure. After 90 minutes of surgery, convinced that he had identifie...
Upon arriving to the OR at 6:30 a.m., the anesthesia attending was greeted by 3 agitated nurses who had assisted with a combined neurosurgery, plastics, and ENT case that had begun the previous morning, approximately 22 hours ago. While obtaining a report from the departing night nurses, they were concerned about surgeon fatigue, the need to assess...
Feb 3, 1986 · Richard E. Berlin, 92, who for three decades was president and chief executive officer of the Hearst Corp., died Jan. 28 at his home in Rye, N.Y. The cause of death was not reported.
Richard E. Berlin, American Publisher. Recipient Henry Johnson award, 1966. Board of directors Boys Clubs American; trustee Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, American Heritage Foundation, Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge; commissioner Saratoga Springs commission With United States Navy, World War I. Member Knights of Malta, Book Club ...
