When I blogged a summary of my recent Brazil trip, I said I’d write more about my visit to a hospital… so here’s that post. Thanks again to my hosts, Gemba Group, the consulting and training firm that has been helping the hospital that I visited — Hospital Mackenzie in Curitiba, Brazil. Specifically, this was the Evangelical University Hospital, a large 600-bed academic hospital (one of the largest in the city). The Mackenzie name was … Continue reading A Gemba Visit to a Hospital in Brazil: Huddles, Lean Improvement, and More