Lean Healthcare – Cleaning up the laundry processImproving Laundry process for OR materials ·       Most hospitals in a large non-profit system had on-site laundry facilities, which were aging and in need of replacement.  Instead of further investments in these individual hospital laundry facilities, system leaders saw an opportunity to gain efficiencies through centralizing laundry services

Lean Healthcare – New Facility DesignOptimizing flow and layout for a new Healthcare facility ·       When a healthcare organization has committed to constructing a new building, it represents a unique opportunity to design the physical layout of a facility to be integrated with and facilitate process efficiencies (see Figure 1). The process of Lean/TPS facility

Lean Healthcare TransformationImproving Operating Room Availability Operating Rooms (OR’s) represent the greatest opportunity for margin and profit impact (positive or negative) of any hospital department, but also represent the greatest expense and risk. Between OR cases (same room/same surgeon), the rooms must be turned over, which includes cleaning, restocking, preparation for the next case, pulling