Title: A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare
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.
Subjects: Health services administration, Just-in-time systems, Industrial efficiency, Delivery of Health Care, Organization & administration, Organizational Efficiency, Health Care Reform, Methods, Teams in the workplace, Management, Self-directed work teams, Performance, Psychological aspects, Leadership, Evaluation, Organizational effectiveness, Gezondheidszorg, Kwaliteitszorg, Efficiëntie, Sjukvårdsadministration, Driftsorganisation, Arbetsformer, Total quality management, Industrial productivity, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Case studies