We had a great first day at our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Seattle (with lots of tweets from attendees you can follow along with). The Summit concludes with Day 2 today.
One of the plenary presenters was Dr. Michel Tétreault, President & CEO of St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg. In his talk, some of the key themes were the dual purpose of using Lean to help create perfect patient care AND a better workplace environment for their staff and employees.
I don't have video of the presentation to share, but here is a YouTube video that he shared during his session. As the process is improved, previously wasted time is redeployed to patient care. Nurses get more time for patient care, which is rewarding for nurses and better for patients.
Later in the day, Chief Medical Officer Bruce Roe shared video of representatives from their “Patient and Family Advisory Council” talking about participating in Lean improvement events, lending their voice, ideas, and efforts to improvement – it was described as “rewarding” and “transparent” by these patients. It's very exciting and inspiring to hear stories like this from so many hospitals that are presenting and attending this event…
Updated – here is the patient video that Bruce showed:
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