By: Debra Hadfield (RN, MSN), Shelagh Holmes (RN), Sue Kozlowski, Todd Sperl, and Don Tapping
The New Healthcare Pocket Guide XL is a collection of input from healthcare professionals and Lean Sensei. It provides easy-to-use and easy-to-understand tools, methods, and concepts based on the world-class Toyota Motor Company (i.e., Lean). The New Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide XL in this larger format is design for use as a quick and easy reference as you learn and implement Lean tools. The tools of 5S, continuous flow, cycle time, document tagging, error proofing, goals and outcomes, Just-In-Time, takt time, standard work, pitch, plus all the other Lean tools are thoroughly explained. This "newer" version includes additional case studies, actual photos, an index, as well as compliments the Value Stream Management for Lean Healthcare book. This book will assist any healthcare facility in the enabling them into a Lean environment where the focus is on both driving strategic change and meeting operational goals.
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By: Todd Sperl Activity Doesn’t Mean Achievement: Identifying Waste in Healthcare provides a practical approach to educate and communicate to healthcare staff on the various types of wastes that may exist in their processes as well as provide guidance in possible ways to eliminate those wastes. Subsequently, individuals and teams can work to eliminate those specific wastes through Kaizen or Rapid Improvement Events. The purpose of this book is to provide:- A standard communication platform for defining the 12 wastes for an individual as well as a team
- EXAMPLES of healthcare waste that may “trigger” ideas of wasteful processes in your facility
- Questions to help DETECT wastes in current processes
- Suggestions of Lean and Six Sigma methods to ELIMINATE wastes
- Innovative ways to conduct a Waste Walk
- An example of a Waste Audit and Waste Walk
- Space in the book to document current wasteful processes as well as ideas for eliminating those wastes
- Definitions for the basic Lean and Six Sigma tools
- A case study on how one facility used the simple concept of waste to engage staff in their Lean journey