Ms. Peach used Kaizen, a process improvement strategy within lean manufacturing, within her division’s hospitals. Kaizen encompassed a three-day workshop in which front-line workers in the emergency ...
However, one flaw in the Lean strategy is that Lean is predicated on the assumption of a stable, contained process in which variation has little significance. In the manufacturing industry, this ...
Peter L. Gosline, president and CEO of Monadnock Community Hospital, was at a crossroads in 2009. The 25-bed critical access hospital faced a huge deficit as a direct result of an unexpected ice-storm ...
The objective of this work is to improve the quality of patient care in the admission office service of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío (HUVR) by standardizing and systematizing its ...
Any credible Lean presentation, including application in healthcare and hospitals' EDs [emergency departments], should clearly state what key Lean concepts were used and, specifically, how these ...
Editor's note: This version of the story was edited to appear in the print edition of Modern Healthcare. View the full feature and video at modernhealthcare.com ...
How did the number one ranking academic medical center in patient survival save $46 million in financial benefits last year? Denver Health has committed to 400 rapid-improvement projects and ...
Four years ago, the leaders of Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital faced a pressing question as they began planning a new facility to house their neonatal intensive-care unit, outpatient surgery and ...
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