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Lean Laboratory: Lean Coach vs Technical Supervisor
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The diary of a lean process. Wednesday, December 22, 2010. Lean Coach vs Technical Supervisor. I was talking with a CFO from a Midwestern hospital today about transforming supervisors into Lean coaches. Dave Krebs (http:/ www.leanhealthcareexchange.com/? When I worked at Allina Health System in Minnesota, we had technical consultants that filled the technical supervisor role and then we had Site Managers that were in charge of hiring/firing, evaluating, and scheduling the staff. In this environment, ...
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Lean Laboratory: Is the Answer Right There in Front of You?
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The diary of a lean process. Monday, October 12, 2009. Is the Answer Right There in Front of You? A couple of weeks ago, I was looking at our workload data and noticed that 47% of our stat testing was coming from our attached nursing home. This seemed like an oxymoron to me. How could nearly half of our requests for stat testing be coming from a long term care unit that should not have patients with acute illness issues? Posted by Nancy and DogThunder. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Womack, James, P...
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Lean Laboratory: Lean Just Keeps Popping Up!
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The diary of a lean process. Wednesday, September 14, 2011. Lean Just Keeps Popping Up! Our Lean project had detoured the last year or so due to a change in hospital leadership. Remodeling in the Lab was stalled and our Lean project began to drift. We began to discuss the next steps in improving our culture of patient safety and guess what, 'Lean' was mentioned! Posted by Nancy and DogThunder. There was an error in this gadget. Lean Just Keeps Popping Up! Lean Improvements in Population Health. Rother, M...
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Lean Laboratory: It's About the Worker
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The diary of a lean process. Tuesday, September 29, 2009. It's About the Worker. The thing that I like the best about Lean thinking is that it is all about the worker. They are the ones that can see what needs to be improved because they are at the front line where all the good and bad parts of a process are glaringly obvious. Lean celebrates this by empowering the entire organization to listen to the worker. It is time that organizations value the worker for what they are: the heart and soul of their co...
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Lean Laboratory: Is this the Right Patient??
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The diary of a lean process. Friday, October 2, 2009. Is this the Right Patient? My first step was to benchmark our problem, and luckily the College of American Pathologists offered a Q-Track(TM) (. Http:/ www.cap.org/apps/docs/q probes/past studies/1993/wristband identification error reporting.pdf. I believe that this is one parameter that we can never stop measuring. We need to measure what matters and patient safety is at the top of the list. Posted by Nancy and DogThunder. Our Lean Effort Has the Flu.
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Lean Laboratory: September 2011
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The diary of a lean process. Wednesday, September 14, 2011. Lean Just Keeps Popping Up! Our Lean project had detoured the last year or so due to a change in hospital leadership. Remodeling in the Lab was stalled and our Lean project began to drift. We began to discuss the next steps in improving our culture of patient safety and guess what, 'Lean' was mentioned! Posted by Nancy and DogThunder. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Lean Just Keeps Popping Up! New York, NY: Free Pr...
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Wait Time & Delayed Care: Parkland Hospital ER Death - More Details
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008. Parkland Hospital ER Death - More Details. I have a soft spot for Parkland Memorial Hospital. It is a county hospital that sees all-comers regardless of their ability to pay or legal status. I also did an externship there and can say from first hand experience that the ER is amazingly busy and they see about as much trauma as any other hospital in the country. Gives a more detailed description of events, a time-lapse of his wait as well as the coroner's report. There are a num...
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Wait Time & Delayed Care: Proud to be a Member
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Sunday, October 5, 2008. Proud to be a Member. I was accepted into the Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics. Group this week. Follow the link in the bottom corner of the blog for more information. Posted by Ian Furst http:/ www.waittimes.blogspot.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). List of Wait Times Links. Definition of Health 2.0. The Host of Wait Times and Delayed Care. Cancer care wait time. Diagnostic imaging wait times. Excel Tips and Tricks. Health care wait times. NHS ED Wait Times. The Healthy...
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Wait Time & Delayed Care: The Effect of Too Many Doctor Days
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Monday, November 3, 2008. The Effect of Too Many Doctor Days. Nothing creates more panic in the eyes of office managers than holes in the schedule. While doctors may complain about too much work and not enough time with a patient, the corollary is a lack of work. The natural tendancy is to try and fill the day. If the day is filled by increasing sevice levels to patients that's great. However, the common approach is to add time to existing appointments. 1 List appointment types and expected length. The d...
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Wait Time & Delayed Care: Online Six Sigma Support
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Friday, October 10, 2008. Online Six Sigma Support. In any continuous improvement project I've found one of the major hurdles. To be keeping all of the team members on the same page. Grouputer. Has come up with an online six sigma tool for everyone to use. Interesting tool - the link is to the screen shots. Posted by Ian Furst http:/ www.waittimes.blogspot.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). List of Wait Times Links. Definition of Health 2.0. The Host of Wait Times and Delayed Care. NHS ED Wait Times.
