Leveraging Lean in Outpatient Clinics - Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation (Paperback)

This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System. Each book in the series focuses on a specific aspect of healthcare-including emergency departments, medical laboratories, outpatient clinics, ancillary services, and surgical services-that has demonstrated significant process and quality improvements after a Lean implementation. Because ambulatory care settings play a significant role in the healthcare delivery system, it is important to understand how Lean concepts and tools can be used to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care. Leveraging Lean in Outpatient Clinics: Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation provides a functional understanding of Lean processes and quality improvement techniques in an outpatient clinic environment. This book is an ideal guide for healthcare executives, leaders, process improvement team members, and inquisitive frontline workers who want to implement and leverage Lean in outpatient clinical settings. Supplying detailed descriptions of Lean tools and methodologies, it identifies powerful Lean solutions specific to the needs of outpatient facilities. The first section provides an overview of Lean concepts, tools, methodologies, and applications. The second section focuses on the application of Lean in the outpatient clinic environment. It presents illustrative examples of Lean deployments in primary care, GI, and preadmission testing clinics. The examples provide broad content which can be readily transferable to other outpatient clinic settings. Illustrating leadership's role in achieving departmental goals, this book will provide you with a well-rounded understanding of how Lean can be applied to achieve significant improvements throughout the complete continuum of care.

General

Imprint:	Apple Academic Press Inc.
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	December 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Charles Protzman • Joyce Kerpchar • George Mayzell
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	360
ISBN-13:	978-1-4822-3423-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Hospital administration & management
LSN:	1-4822-3423-8
Barcode:	9781482234237

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