By Mark Graban
Building at the good fortune of the Shingo Prize-Winning first version, Lean Hospitals: enhancing caliber, sufferer security, and worker Engagement, moment Edition explains tips to use the tilt administration process to enhance safeguard, caliber, entry, and morale whereas decreasing expenses. Lean healthcare specialist Mark Graban examines the demanding situations dealing with today’s overall healthiness platforms, together with emerging bills, falling compensation charges, worker retention, and sufferer security.
The new version of this overseas bestseller starts off with an outline of Lean equipment. It explains how Lean practices comparable to price move mapping and strategy commentary can assist decrease wasted movement for caregivers, hinder delays for sufferers, and increase the long term overall healthiness of your company. as well as a brand new creation from John Toussaint, this up-to-date version includes:
- New and up to date fabric on deciding upon waste, A3 challenge fixing, worker advice administration, and approach deployment
- New case studies—including a brand new Kanban case research (Northampton normal clinic) and one other that ties jointly the topics of standardized paintings, Kanban, 5S, visible administration, and Lean management for the prevention of sufferer harm
- New examples and up-to-date information all through, together with revised chapters on sufferer security and combating clinical errors
Detailing the stairs wanted for a winning transition to a Lean tradition, the ebook presents the certainty of Lean practices—including standardized paintings, errors proofing, root reason challenge fixing, and day-by-day development processes—needed to minimize universal clinic mistakes. The balanced technique defined during this e-book will advisor you thru the method of enhancing caliber of carrier whereas lowering charges on your medical institution.
*The Lean Certification and Oversight Appeals committee has licensed Lean Hospitals as suggested analyzing for these in pursuit of Lean Bronze Certification from SME, AME, Shingo Prize, and ASQ.
Check out a video of Mark Graban discussing the recent variation of his Shingo Prize-Winning Book.
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Who actually understand the problems and can craft the best solutions. This book lays out the nuts and bolts of the Lean methodology and describes the more difficult challenges, which have to do with managing change. Lean Hospitals is full of wins—these are the same type of wins that are happening at ThedaCare every day. I wish I could have read this in 2004, as it might have prevented some of the mistakes we made in our Lean transformation journey. Lean thinking changes all “conventional healthcare thinking,” and that is good because we need a complete transformation in our industry if we have any hope of improving patient value.
Informative, understandable, and timely, Mark Graban’s book will leave you with an appreciation for what Lean is and what it can do for your hospital. ” Jim Adams Senior Director, Laboratory Operations, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas “It’s obvious that Mark Graban has spent time in the trenches of healthcare and understands the complexities of applying the Lean philosophy and tools to that environment. ” Dean Bliss Improvement Advisor, Iowa Healthcare Collaborative “Graban provides a helpful translation of the terms, practices, and tools of Lean thinking into hospitals’ everyday situations and challenges.
15 The motivation was clear that hospitals had to look beyond their peers to find solutions to widespread systemic problems. There are now many examples of the positive impact Lean is having in hospitals throughout the world. As a sample, Lean methods have resulted in Reduced turnaround time for clinical laboratory results by 60% in 2004 without adding head count or new instrumentation; further reduced times by another 33% from 2008 to 2010—Alegent Health, Nebraska16,17 Reduced instrument decontamination and sterilization cycle time by 54% while improving productivity by 16%—Kingston General Hospital, Ontario18 Reduced central-line-associated bloodstream infections by 76%, reducing patient deaths from such infections by 95% and saving $1 million—Allegheny Hospital, Pennsylvania19 Reduced readmission rates for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients by 48%—UPMC St.