The New Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide: Tools for the Elimination of Waste in Hospitals, Clinics, and Other Healthcare Facilities
- 2h 11m
- Debra K. Hadfield, Shelagh Holmes, Susan F. Kozlowski, Todd Sperl
- MCS Media, Inc.
- 2012
The New Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide is designed for use as a convenient and quick reference as you learn and implement the Lean tools as they apply to those challenging situations in healthcare. You can put your finger on any tool within a matter of seconds! It is an enhancement to the best selling and most widely used healthcare improvement book, The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide. The New features of this book are: more case studies, actual photos, a detailed case study using EMR in a Physician's Group, an index, as well as this being a compliment to the newly released Value Stream Management for Lean Healthcare book.
About the Authors
Debra K. Hadfield, RN, MSN, CFPN has worked in the clinical, hospital, and educational fields applying Lean Healthcare principles for over ten years. Ms. Hadfield has held positions at Michigan State University, The University of Michigan, Andrews University, Michigan Capital Medical Center, and Battle Creek Family Practice.
Shelagh Holmes, RN, has 22 years of nursing experience. Ms. Holmes has held a wide range of healthcare positions, including: emergency room nurse, nurse manager, consolidation program manager, university instructor, labor coach, and medical clinic manager.
Todd Sperl is a Master Black Belt/Lean Sensei and led the deployment of Lean-Six Sigma across St. John Health. His experience ranges from facilitating large, complex organizational transformation initiatives to achieve significant and measurable results, as well as participating on numerous smaller engagements. Currently Todd is Managing Partner at Lean Fox Solutions, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm where their vision is to improve the patient care experience. Todd can be contacted at tsperl@leanfoxsolutions.com.
Susan F. Kozlowski, MSA, MT(ASCP)SBB DLM, CSSBB(ASQ) was one of the first Lean Six Sigma Black Belts at St. John Health completing numerous projects in areas of inpatient flow, bed management, the Emergency Department, Surgical Services, and Registration. Sue is currently the Manager of Performance Improvement at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Certified as a Black Belt by ASQ, Sue is an active member and has served as a judge for the International Team Excellence Awards.
In this Book
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5S in Healthcare - Why You Need it
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Continuous Flow
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Cycle Time
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Document Tagging
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Error Proofing
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Goals and Outcomes
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Goal Card
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Healthcare Case for Lean
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Interruptions and Random Arrivals
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Just-In-Time (JIT)
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Kaizen Events
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Kanbans for Supplies
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Leveling
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Measurement Techniques
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Paper File System
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Physical Layout
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Pitch
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Predictable Output
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Problem Solving
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Pull Systems
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Reporting and Communications
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Resistance to Change
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Runners
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Six Sigma
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Standard Work
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Takt Time
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Value Stream Mapping
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Visual Controls
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Waste
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Work Load Balancing
