With looming provider shortages, hospitals need to reconsider management strategies now more than ever. Here are four considerations for implementing lean management in a hospital system, along with ...

Lean is a holistic continuous improvement approach for maximizing value for customers and eliminating waste. Many healthcare organizations have adopted Lean to improve efficiency and patient care. We ...

While it might seem that everyone is doing lean these days, there are many organizations that are still looking to get started. And within the companies doing lean, there are many groups that are ...

2 tertiary-care hospitals in Massachusetts were following a Lean process to mitigate patient handling injuries among nursing staff. The project leaders needed better involvement of front-line staff ...

In today's business environment, each department of an organization has to balance various important tasks with increasingly limited resources. For example, as the chief operating and financial ...