A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare: How to Implement Lean Principles in Hospitals, Medical Offices, Clinics, and Other Healthcare Organizations

by Tom Zidel

Book Overview

This book is an implementation manual for lean tools and principles in a healthcare environment. Lean is a growth strategy, a survival strategy, and an improvement strategy. The goal of lean is, first and foremost, to provide value to the patient/customer, and in so doing eliminate the delays, overcrowding, and frustration associated with the existing care delivery system. Lean creates a better working environment where what is supposed to happen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873897013
• ISBN13: 9780873897013
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: ASQ Quality Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"