Tag: Healthcare

Recently, Chris Jerry, a friend in the patient safety movement (pictured, at left) told me that he was going to be interviewed on a Fox...

There's a weeklong nursing strike at Allina Health in Minnesota: Seven-day nurses strike starts at five Twin Cities hospitals. The main issue is health insurance coverage...

Thanks to those of you who pre-ordered the 3rd edition of my book Lean Hospitals. Click below to read a free preview from the book, the start...

Today's the first day of the two-day Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, an annual event that's being held this year near Miami. If you're at...

For decades, manufacturers have been tripped up by the simplistic idea that Lean is about "zero inventories." It probably didn't help that one of...

Yesterday was an exciting day for me, professionally and personally, as I received my first copies of the 3rd edition of my book Lean Hospitals (I'll...

This episode is sponsored by StoreSMART. My guest for episode #252 is Jordan Peck, a Senior Director in the Center for Performance Improvement at MaineHealth...

As the 3rd edition of my book Lean Hospitals is starting to ship, I'm having some great conversations with people about the "State of Lean...

Now, there’s a story written by an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Brad Cotton, that appears in a publication called “Emergency Medicine News” — FIRST PERSON: ‘We Fired Our Hospital’...

I've written before about the subject of hospitals "flexing" nurses and employees. I've criticized flexing (or the practice of sending employees home early because patient census is low) and I've pointed out that it's not keeping with "Lean" principles to "save money" by sending people home early.

I recently learned that a company called Anderson Continuing Education offers continuing education (CE) credits for nurses related to my book Lean Hospitals. See their page...

As is often the case, I have too many open browser tabs full of articles that I was going to potentially blog about. This slows...