Podcast #336 – Gladys Bogoshi, a Lean Healthcare CEO from South Africa
My guest for Episode #336 is Gladys Bogoshi, the Chief Executive Officer at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, one of the ten central hospitals in South Africa and the main teaching platform of the University of the Witwatersrand. The Hospital is situated in Johannesburg and has a bed capacity of 1189.
Gladys is going to be a keynote speaker at this year's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, to be held in Washington, DC on June 13 & 14. I'll be there and I hope you can join us. I'll also be teaching a pre-Summit workshop on Measures of Success that I hope you can attend.
In this episode, we talk about how she got introduced to Lean, some of the improvements that her hospital has driven in surgery, pharmacy, and other areas. What is her role as CEO in a Lean journey? What are some of the fundamental behaviors that are important and how you can coach people on those? We talk about all of that and more.
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Questions, Topics, and Links:
- Can you please introduce yourself and tell the listeners about your career in hospital management
- How did you first get introduced to Lean?
- What are your experiences with Lean at your hospital?
- Success stories?
- “Implementing lean allowed her hospital to improve efficiency across the board. For example, operating room efficiency has improved by 36%.”
- How was that accomplished?
- Other examples? Prescription filling?
- Success stories?
- How did you learn more about Lean management?
- “The patient experience should be a good one.”
- How would you describe your role as a CEO and a leader of Lean transformation?
- What are your goals for Lean and how does that contribute to the goals of the hospital?
- How widespread
is interest in Lean in South African hospitals? - What else do you plan on talking about at the Summit in DC?
- Fundamental behaviors: 1) Show respect 2) Humility
- How it helps to have a “buddy” — a non-judgmental coach
Articles with Gladys Bogoshi:
- Hospitals in South Africa Benefit from Lean Management
- Transforming a pharmacy together: The Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital
- Lean in a Time of Scarcity
Thanks for listening!
Hospital photo credit:By Ekem – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33416249
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