What does car manufacturer Toyota and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University have in common? More than you might think. Hospitalists at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based children’s ...

Since the 1990s, Lean management principles have been discussed, debated and deployed in healthcare settings as a means to remove excess waste and improve quality. Paul Levy, former president and CEO ...

The transformation required of healthcare practices seeking to improve care quality while containing costs could benefit from the application of "lean" management thinking, according to a recent study ...

Changes were also made within the hospital to improve communication and share information. In 2008, the hospital established its Mark A. Watson Center for Operations Excellence, which uses Lean Six ...

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The same lean principles that help healthcare systems improve care delivery and cost can also manage population health, says the CEO of the not-for-profit ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value in ...

Norman Regional is going LEAN ... but don’t think that means the health care system and staff are reducing customer service. Quite the opposite. The point of the LEAN program is to eliminate waste, ...

Boasting a population of almost 3 million, St. Louis is America's 16 th largest city. To help safeguard its citizens' health, the metro area recently opened the doors of the SSM St. Clare Health ...

To appreciate Glenn Ballard’s commitment to Lean project delivery, ask him about the fruit trees behind his Oakland, Calif., home. The University of California, Berkeley, retired professor and project ...

In May, Akron Children’s Hospital unveiled its $180 million patient care facility, which was supposed to be its $240 million facility. Among the features of the seven-story, 368,735-square-foot Kay ...