Becker's Hospital Review: 5 Tips for Improving Quality & Cutting Costs at Hospitals
Becker's Hospital Review: Putting patients first: A characteristic all lean hospitals share
The American Journal of Managed Care: Hospitals’ Strategies to Reduce Costs and Improve Quality: Survey of Hospital Leaders
Hospitals pursue a broad range of efforts to improve quality, with those participating in bundled payments attempting to reduce postacute care to a greater degree than nonparticipants. Objectives: ...
Hospitals’ Strategies to Reduce Costs and Improve Quality: Survey of Hospital Leaders
Kaleido Scope: The Relationship of Lean Implementation and Patient Satisfaction (HCAHPS) Scores in Acute Care Hospitals
Background: The purpose of the study was to better understand the relationship of Lean implementation and patient satisfaction (HCAHPS) scores in acute care hospitals. Hospitals are under significant ...
The Relationship of Lean Implementation and Patient Satisfaction (HCAHPS) Scores in Acute Care Hospitals
MedCity News: 3 Things Hospitals Must Remember to Drive Better Quality & Safety
Riz Hatton recently moderated a panel discussing quality improvement projects that add the most value to hospitals. The panelists included: – Charleen Tachibana, DNP, RN, Senior Vice President and ...
Five key principles of lean: value, value stream, flow, pull, and perfection, can be applied to any business process that contains wasteful steps, in any industry.
Lean manufacturing has been around for decades. The implementation of lean tools and techniques usually results in impressive gains in efficiency and production. These eight real-life examples show how lean methods improve operational performance and reduce costs.
Lean seeks to improve manufacturing operations via Takt Time, Standardized Work, Continuous Flow, Poka-Yoke, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, and Six Big Losses.