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Author Kerpchar, Joyce, author.

Title Leveraging lean in the emergency department : creating a cost effective, standardized, high quality, patient-focused operation / Joyce Kerpchar, Charles Protzman, George Mayzell
Published New York : Productivity Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 346 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Front Cover; Contents; Preface: Leveraging Lean in the Emergency Department; Acknowledgments; Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction to Lean; Chapter 2: Batching vs. Lean Thinking and Flow; Chapter 3: Lean and Change Management; Chapter 4: Lean Foundation; Chapter 5: Basic Lean Concepts and Tools -- Assessment and Analyze; Chapter 6: Putting It All Together; Chapter 7: Implementing Lean in a Healthcare Environment; Chapter 8: Executives and Lean; Chapter 9: Roles and Responsibilities of Managers and Supervisors; Chapter 10: What It Means to Have a Lean Culture
Chapter 11: Leveraging Lean in the Emergency DepartmentAppendix; Appendix: Glossary; Back Cover
Summary This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System. Each book in the series focuses on a specific aspect of healthcare that has demonstrated significant process and quality improvements after a Lean implementation. Emergency departments have become notorious for long wait times and questionable quality of care. By adopting Lean manufacturing concepts, hospitals can turn the emergency department into a valuable service for the hospital and the com
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Emergency medical services -- Administration
Emergency medical services -- Cost effectiveness
Emergency medical services -- Quality control
Six sigma (Quality control standard)
Total quality management.
Emergency Service, Hospital -- organization & administration
Efficiency, Organizational
Patient-Centered Care -- organization & administration
Quality of Health Care -- organization & administration
Total Quality Management
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Emergency medical services -- Administration
Emergency medical services -- Cost effectiveness
Emergency medical services -- Quality control
Six sigma (Quality control standard)
Total quality management
Form Electronic book
Author Protzman, Charles, author
Mayzell, George, author.
ISBN 9781482237320
1482237326
9781482237313
1482237318