A Kaizen from East Tennessee Children’s Hospital and their PICU. Here is an example that is good for patients and staff (less delay) and is good for the organization (better charge capture). Before there were multiple methods of informing Central Supply of …
CVL / Airway Cart Restocking for Patient Charge Items Read more »
Shared by the L&D department at the University of North Carolina Health Care. This kaizen improvement was managed through the KaiNexus software system and was then documented in the Quick and Easy Kaizen format. This was a small improvement reduces cost for …
Shared by the L&D department at the University of North Carolina Health Care. This kaizen improvement was managed through the KaiNexus software system and was then documented in the Quick and Easy Kaizen format. This was a small improvement that benefitted visitors …
A nurse voiced her concerns about the time it takes to access Ativan, a medicine used for seizures. PICU and Pharmacy worked together to get to the root cause of the problem and created a process to cut down the …
From Tom Byrne, MD: Here is an idea card for improving pt intake into practices. They have started sending out the forms for pts ahead of time and are tracking how many bring them in filled out, how many not …
Idea Card Example: No Time for Patients to Fill Out History Read more »
This is a Kaizen I implemented at the ASQ Lean and Six Sigma conference. Read more here at LeanBlog.org.
This is a kaizen from an ultrasound tech at Franciscan St. Francis (co-author Joe’s organization).
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