Lean Learnings

Join us for our quick, virtual, monthly events called "Lean Learnings".

From 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. each month, catch a quick presentation from one of our consultants, a member or a guest speaker on some of your favorite lean subjects and methodologies!

Topic: Lean Healthcare

Lean Healthcare is the subject of this presentation. Learn how applying process excellence can improve your patient safety, quality and throughput while increasing staff satisfaction.

With our nationwide healthcare and hospital population seeing more acute patient types along with increasing cost pressures, the need for a solution has never been greater. Charlie Protzman and Mike Hogan will review overarching opportunities for Lean in healthcare with results obtained at client hospitals over the last 20 years in areas such as Emergency Departments, Surgery, Pharmacy, Lab, Radiology, Clinics etc. utilizing the BASICS Lean® Model. 

Identify and eliminate the characteristics of your processes that don’t contribute to World Class Quality Healthcare Outcomes.

• Want to Improve Your Quality of Care?
• Want to Increase Positive Safety Outcomes?
• Want to Create Flow and Increase Patient Throughput?

Presenters

Charlie Protzman has 20 years of experience in Lean healthcare across the U.S. His Shingo Prize winning series of books called “Leveraging Lean in Healthcare”, describes how to implement Lean in every area of the hospital. 

Mike Hogan has over 17 years of Lean Healthcare implementation and design experience. Mike is the OPEX manager for Florida Cancer Specialists and former COO of Studio Plus Architecture in Fort Myers, FL and is OSHA 30 Certified. Charlie and Mike have trained thousands of practitioners worldwide in Lean concepts.

Key Messages

Increase patient and staff safety by creating Flow

• Balancing Inputs vs. Outputs
• Faster is better - reducing steps = reducing defects
• Lean applies to all areas of the hospital and healthcare. 
• Tools in combination with Human Aspect is the secret to sustaining Lean