Joining me for Episode #367 of the podcast is Dr. Rachel Mandel, a self-described “healthcare whisperer” and Washington D.C.-based consultant for healthcare organizations. She has her own practice and also works as a Senior Healthcare Advisor for Operational Performance Solutions, Inc.
She is, of course, a physician (OB-GYN) and previously served as the Vice President of Medical Affairs for a health system in Maryland. Read her full bio here.
We recorded this podcast in late February 2020, so much has changed since then. We'll be doing a follow up podcast next week where we'll discuss some of the leadership (and organizational) challenges that health systems face now during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Today, we'll talk about her experiences with Lean and how she is an advocate for this methodology, especially around the important issues of safety and quality.
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For a link to this episode, refer people to www.leanblog.org/367.
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Questions, Topics, Quotes, and Links:
- Rachel's LinkedIn page
- Operational Performance Solutions
- How did you get introduced to Lean?
- Benefits for physicians and the organization?
- Waste that she's dealt with in the OR (workarounds)
- Lean and Patient Safety (IHI talk)
- How to engage physicians — not cost, but “process improvement”
- Learning from manufacturing
- Ways to prevent or recover from MD burnout
- Being an insider vs being an outsider consultant
- MD rounding culture vs. leadership rounding
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