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#TBT: #Lean & #Baldrige at Mary Greeley Medical Center; Upcoming Webinar on Their Journey

I'm really happy to be playing the role of host for this free webinar that's being presented next Friday, March 30th:

Engaging Leaders and the Baldrige Framework to Advance Excellence
A Look into the Extraordinary Work at Mary Greeley Medical Center

The webinar is being presented by Karen Kiel-Rosser and Ron Smith from Mary Greeley Medical Center.

If you can't attend the live session, we'll send you the recording if you register.

The throwback component of this post is a look back at a podcast that I did with Karen three years ago this month:

Another “Bad 5S” Example

leanblog.org | Lean Blog: Bad Lean/5S Hits the UK Media I presented yesterday and had a great day (meeting people and learning) with the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative and their annual Lean conference. I’ll write more about their story later and…

Iowa Healthcare Leadership and Lean

Leadership Symposium (Iowa) It sure seems like Iowa gets mentioned here on the blog quite a bit, for lean manufacturing and lean healthcare. John Touissant, of ThedaCare (in Wisconsin), is speaking at an Iowa healthcare symposium April 22 (unfortunately, it…

Toyota plan aids U of I hospital efficiency

DesMoinesRegister.com More good lean news coming out of Iowa, this time in the “lean healthcare” world there. University Hospitals is among at least a dozen Iowa hospitals using or considering using Lean Manufacturing, a zero-waste process developed by Toyota, the…

Iowa and Lean, Once Again

Making Iowa more business friendly a goal for lawmakers Iowa sure pops up quite a bit in the lean news, between Maytag and Pella, and Gov. Tom Vilsack’s promotion of lean. In this case, the Governor is trying to help…

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