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A lean guide to transforming healthcare : how to implement lean principles in hospitals, medical offices, clinics, and other healthcare organizations / Thomas G. Zidel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zidel, Tom, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health services administration.
- Industrial efficiency.
- Just-in-time systems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin : ASQ Quality Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- 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 patient
- Contents:
- Lean principles
- Time for action
- A lean road map
- Value stream mapping
- Standard work
- 5S
- Mistake proofing
- Quick changeover
- Six sigma
- Conducting a lean event
- IV Admixtire lean event Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Becoming lean.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780873893152
- 0873893158
- 9780873893169
- 0873893166
- 9780873898997
- 0873898990
- 9786000048280
- 6000048289
- OCLC:
- 898103511
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