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Lean Healthcare is the most
dominant and prevalent strategy for Healthcare to improve patient care,
employee satisfaction and dramatically impact a business' financial and
competitive strength.
Lean Healthcare started in New
England with impact in 2001 when Miriam Hospital* in Rhode Island
implemented 5S and pull systems for Pre-Admission Testing. Since then,
dozens of hospitals and
healthcare organizations have sampled with Lean and started transforming their
business.
Throughout New England, there are more than 350 hospitals
and hundreds of physician practices, visiting nurse associations, home
health businesses, surgi-centers, nursing homes and rehabilitation
facilities. If you are serving patients and facilitating the processes
that serve them then Lean Healthcare is a necessity for you.
New England dominates healthcare
nationwide with:
At each conference we will have one of
the 50 minute sessions conduct a Lean facilitators round table where topics and
tools get raised and challenged to explore the best solutions for their
organizations. Topics include:
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Lessons learned on training
internal Lean change agents |
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Culture transformation
- Gaining buy-in from department managers and executives |
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The latest products,
articles and books to learn from or give to their students of Lean |
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Kaizen hurdles. Challenges or techniques to thwart challenges in Lean kaizen events |
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We will have a life size
map of New England at the conference!
You will see a push pin at each
health care organization or company implementing Lean
Healthcare.
Make sure you come see the
map and ensure that your site is counted! |
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*Please provide evidence if an organization implemented
Lean Healthcare earlier than June, 2001.
Conference will be held
Friday, March 5, 2010 from 8am - 5pm.
Questions? E-mail the
Conference Director
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