Tag: Patient Safety

Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 17, 2020

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve.  Here's a good example of use of A3 thinking to...

It’s Hard to Ask Leaders to Change the System in Which...

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The other day, I stumbled across an old article that I remember, as it was published in the Wall Street Journal in 2004. The...

Podcast #354 — Kim Hollon on the CEO’s Role in Lean...

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Joining me for episode #354 of the podcast is Kim Hollon, the CEO and President of Signature Healthcare, based in Brockton, Massachusetts. I first met...

A Hospital CEO’s Humble Reflections on His Role in Lean and...

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Kim Hollon is CEO and President at Signature Healthcare. I don't know him well, but I've heard a lot of great things about him...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 6, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Does Lean "work" in hospitals in the US?  Sort of, according to the Journal of Healthcare Management.  There is evidence...

Congrats to Mary Greeley Medical Center for Receiving the Baldrige Award!

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Today, I'd like to celebrate my friends at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Iowa for being one of six healthcare organizations to receive the...

Podcast #352 — Dr. Fred Southwick, Teaching Quality, Patient Safety &...

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Joining me for Episode #352 of the podcast is Frederick Southwick, M.D. He is a Professor of Medicine and is also Director of Patient...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 8, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "Imagine walking into a restaurant and being seated. Sometime after your meal, you receive the check and find an...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 25, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients If you set a target without providing a clear path on how you want it achieved, and then punish staff when they fail...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 11, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Transformation and quality improvement is rarely sustained without changing management behaviours and management systems. John Toussaint writes about the challenges...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 27, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Globally, at least 5 patients die every minute due to unsafe care.  For Patient Safety Week, the World Health Organization...

What This Hospital President Said About Lean, Respecting Staff, and Just...

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This article made me smile the other day -- especially the comments about Lean, front-line staff, and systems: Q & A with Art Gianelli, president...