Performance improvement for healthcare: leading change with lean, six sigma, and constraints management

Performance improvement for healthcare: leading change with lean, six sigma, and constraints management

Inozu, Bahadir

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PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR REVOLUTIONIZING HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS "If I had to sum up this book in one word, the word would be 'brilliant'! This is one of the most insightful books on TOC, not just for healthcare, that I have ever read." --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 industrially based methods to transform hospital operations in terms of patient outcomes andexperience, financial viability, and employee satisfaction. This pioneering guide presents a scalable strategy for managing bottlenecks, eliminating waste,reducing errors, and containing costs in healthcare organizations, as well assustaining the gains achieved. Real-world case studies illustrate successful performance improvement implementations that have realized breakthrough operational and financial results. COVERAGE INCLUDES: Constraints Management applications in healthcare The NOVACES SystemCPI--an integrated performance improvement deployment approach Three-part assessment--strategic gap analysis, system-level value stream analysis, and system constraint analysis Planning a performance improvement program deployment to ensure timely and consistent execution Applying the right tool to the right problem from a system perspective Sustaining gains achieved by the performance improvement team Defining a path to self-sufficiency. INDICE: Chapter 1. Performance Improvement in Healthcare Chapter 2. Constraints Management Applications in Healthcare Chapter 3. An Integrated Approach to Deploying Performance Improvement Chapter 4. Assessment Chapter 5. Planningfor Deployment Chapter 6. Application of the Right Tool to the Right Problem Chapter 7. Sustainment Appendix. Reliability and Validity of Assessment Measures

  • ISBN: 978-0-07-176162-8
  • Editorial: McGraw-Hill
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 352
  • Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés