Best in Healthcare Getting Better with Lean

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Best in Healthcare Getting Better with Lean PDF

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https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/best-in-healthcare-getting...

Creator:

Taninecz, George

Publisher:

Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc.

Description: The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN., is one of America's elite organizations and world famous for the quality of healthcare that it provides. Even though Mayo Clinic is at the pinnacle of patient care, leadership keeps looking for ways to improve and now they're looking to lean. Dr. Hayes became aware of lean through initiatives within Mayo's radiology and pathology departments, where movement of materials and inventory (e.g., film and samples, respectively) is core. The Division of Cardiovascular Diseases was faced with the added complexity of processes tangled with people, information, and material. Priority projects included: cardiovascular health clinic (CVHC), ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), inpatient admission and triage, cardiac catheterization laboratory, echocardiography laboratory, complex ablation access, warfarin safety, outpatient appointment redesign.

"The unified focus has been 'process improvement' or how we do our work" says Dr. Ting. Initiatives for CVHC and STEMI have been in place the longest and each, in different ways, has helped to advance Mayo's mission to " provide the best care to every patient every day through integrated clinical practice, education and research."

LC Classification:

Medicine -- Public aspects of medicine -- Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine -- Primary health care
Technology -- Manufactures -- Production management. Operations management -- Control of production systems
Technology -- Manufactures -- Production management. Operations management -- Control of production systems -- Inventory control

GEM Subject:

Science -- Engineering
Health -- Technology
Vocational Education -- Trade and industrial

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Reference Material
Instructional Material
Instructional Material -- Instructor Guide/Manual

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Document -- PDF

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Higher Education
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education

Language:

English

Rights:

Lean Enterprise Institute

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Free access

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