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This book explains the powerful techniques of Lean-Six Sigma specifically for healthcare organizations, and focusing on the executive level. Successful Lean-Six Sigma deployment begins and ends with a focus on achieving strategic results. Lean-Six Sigma can aggressively improve throughput and quality while extracting significant costs within the organization. Lean Six Sigma will take leaders down a different path in the exploration and implementation of methods that drive quantum improvement, and this book will serve as the guide.
This book explains the powerful techniques of Lean-Six Sigma specifically for healthcare organizations, and focusing on the executive level. Successful Lean-Six Sigma deployment begins and ends with a focus on achieving strategic results. Lean-Six Sigma can aggressively improve throughput and quality while extracting significant costs within the organization. Lean Six Sigma will take leaders down a different path in the exploration and implementation of methods that drive quantum improvement, and this book will serve as the guide.
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Lowell Kruse, longtime CEO of nationally recognized Heartland Health in St. Joseph, Missouri, gets it-and the point is made by such results as winning a Missouri Quality Award, being among the top 150 hospitals in clinical outcomes by Healthgrades, sustaining top-quartile productivity for several years running, and receiving too many quality team awards to list. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lowell Kruse, longtime CEO of nationally recognized Heartland Health in St. Joseph, Missouri, gets it-and the point is made by such results as winning a Missouri Quality Award, being among the top 150 hospitals in clinical outcomes by Healthgrades, sustaining top-quartile productivity for several years running, and receiving too many quality team awards to list. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patient care throughput, quantum improvers, nondelegable role, survey methods development, quartile cost, quality staffing, match staffing, advance protocols, accountable executives, facilitator instructions, trailing indicators, observation beds, throughput improvement, strategic results, healthcare executives, quality recovery, improving throughput, revenue cycle, inpatient bed, quantum improvement, deployment approach, senior leaders, learning lab Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lean-Six Sigma, Black Belt, Out of Quality, Magic Moment, New York, American College of Healthcare Executives, Waste Walk, Advisory Board Company, Healthcare Advisory Board, Green Belts, Lloyd Provost, Quality Press, Thomas Nolan, Waste Workout, Clifford Norman, Health Administration Press, Heartland Health, Jossey-Bass Publishers, Kevin Nolan, Lean-Six Signia, Robert Neuman, San Francisco, The Improvement Guide, Chip Caldwell, James Brexler New!
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