Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management
Product Description
Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management
--BOB SPROULL, author of The Ultimate Improvement Cycle: Maximizing Profits through the Integration of Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints
Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management lays out an integrated approach for using three improvement methods that have proven to be the most effective way to transform hospital operations in terms of patient outcomes and experience, financial viability, and employee satisfaction. This pioneering guide presents a strategy for managing bottlenecks, eliminating waste, reducing errors, and containing costs in healthcare organizations, as well as sustaining the gains achieved. Real-world case studies illustrate successful performance improvement implementations that have realized breakthrough operational and financial results in the U.S. and abroad.
The book is an in-depth guide for healthcare leaders and includes topics such as:
- Assessing your organization's readiness for adopting a best-of-breed performance improvement strategy
- How to deploy an integrated performance improvement program and get far better results than with traditional methods
- Using Constraints Management to identify leverage points and break constraints that exist in all healthcare organizations
- Building a program that consistently meets milestones on time and on budget
- How to begin thinking at the system-level of complex healthcare organizations and target high-impact opportunities
- Preventing common issues with sustaining improvement initiatives
Technical Specifications
You might also like
The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools, Third Edition
Practical Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare - Using the A3 and Lean Thinking to Improve Operational Performance in Hospitals, Clinics, and Physician Group Practices
Nursing Informatics And The Foundation Of Knowledge
Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers (Health Care Finance (Baker))
Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Improving Patient Safety, Patient Flow and the Bottom Line, Second Edition (Mechanical Engineering)
Health Policy And Politics: A Nurse's Guide (Milstead, Health Policy and Politics)
Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Simple Steps to Fast, Affordable, and Flawless Healthcare
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation (Business Books)
Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing (6th Edition) (Legal Issues in Nursing ( Guido))