Mark’s Note: I’m away on vacation through November 6… there will be some guest posts in this post during that time. Today’s post is by Dean Bliss, a good friend of mine who has worked in Lean healthcare for a…
Mark’s Note: Today’s guest post is, again, from a great friend of mine and this blog, Dean Bliss, of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative. Check out my podcast with him. By Dean Bliss In my role as a Lean healthcare worker,…
As we study the processes we use to do our work, we see opportunities that we may not have even considered before we learned about the Toyota Production System and Lean. At St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, we…