Huddle Up - Streamlining Laboratory Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In a laboratory setting with fast-paced changes and heavy demands on staff, day-to-day communication across departments is challenging, yet paramount to resource sharing and real-time problem solving. To improve communication across departments, the laboratory at Seattle Children’s Hospital has been using daily huddles for several years, explains Dr. Joe Rutledge in this CAPcast. Daily huddles have been valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Dr. Rutledge, ensuring efficient communication among the laboratory staff and across the Seattle Children’s enterprise. Until his recent retirement, Dr. Rutledge was a pediatric pathologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital.