A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare
Subtitle: How to Implement Lean Principles in Hospitals, Medical Offices, Clinics, and Other Healthca
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: ASQ Quality Press
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780873897013
Subjects: Health Care Delivery; Hospital Administration; Industries - Manufacturing Industries; Leadership; Medical / Health Care Delivery; Administration; Medical; Business / Economics / Finance; Medical / Nursing; Health services administration; Industrial efficiency; Just-in-time systems
Description: "This book is an implementation manual for lean tools and principles in a healthcare environment. Lean is a growth strategy, a survival strategy, and an improvement strategy. The goal of lean is, first and foremost, to provide value to the patient/customer, and in so doing eliminate the delays, overcrowding, and frustration associated with the existing care delivery system. Lean creates a better working environment where what is supposed to happen does happen. On time, every time. It allows clinicians to spend more of their time caring for patients and improves the quality of care these patients receive. A lean organization values its employees and encourages their involvement in organizational initiatives which, in turn, sustains hospital-wide quality improvements. The opportunities for lean in healthcare are limitless."--Book cover.