Stuff I’m Reading, April 4, 2012: Staffing Levels, Death Rates, Student Projects

Here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest on a number of Lean related topics:

• THE MORE THE MERRIER (The New Yorker) – “But there's a strong case to be made that corporate America's fetish for cost-cutting has gone too far.”
• Hospital performance rewards fail to cut death rates (Journal-Sentinel) – “Measuring outcomes is more difficult than measuring processes, but measures of outcomes are becoming more common.”
• Student Aid: Class works with Union Hospital on student projects (Indiana State) – “An ISU operations management class teamed with hospital employees for multiple projects that helped the students become green belt certified in Lean Six Sigma, an industry-recognized method for problem-solving and continuous improvement.”
• Plan for a new children's hospital  (IrishTimes.com) – “Other world-class hospitals such as Seattle Children's in the US concentrated on patient flow when constructing the design of its new hospital, incorporating Lean Thinking into their plans.”