Leveraging lean in healthcare : transforming your enterprise into a high quality patient care delivery system /: transforming your enterprise into a high quality patient care delivery system. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Charles Protzman, George Mayzell, Joyce Kerpchar.
• Other Names: Protzman, Charles; Mayzell, George; Kerpchar, Joyce
• Contents: Introduction to Lean -- History of Lean -- Batching vs. Lean Thinking and Flow -- Can the Toyota Model be Applied to Hospitals? -- Lean and Change Management. -- Lean Foundation -- Basic Lean Concepts -- Basic Lean Tools -- Putting it all Together -- Implementing Lean in a Healthcare Environment -- Executives and Lean -- Roles and Responsibilities of Managers and Supervisors -- Finance, Marketing, and our Hospitals -- What it Means to have a Lean Culture -- Surgical Services -- Nutritional Services -- Pharmacy -- Emergency Department -- Laboratories -- Inpatient Floors -- Gastrointestinal Outpatient Clinic -- Primary Care Clinics -- Radiology.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 371 pages)
• Subjects: 362.11068; Hospitals -- United States -- Administration; Hospital care -- United States -- Quality control; Six sigma (Quality control standard); Efficiency, Organizational; Hospital Administration -- methods; Quality of Health Care -- organization & administration; MEDICAL -- Hospital Administration & Care; Hospital care -- Quality control; Hospitals -- Administration; Six sigma (Quality control standard); United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439813867; 1439813868; 9781322615875
• Related ISBNs: 132261587X; 9781439813850; 143981385X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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