Tag: Lean Hospitals

Lean Hospitals: Leadership, Learning, and Better Healthcare Systems

Lean Hospitals is about improving patient care, staff well-being, safety, and flow by fixing systems—not blaming people or cutting costs at any price. These posts explore Lean healthcare as a management and leadership system grounded in respect for people, psychological safety, and continuous learning.

Drawing from hospitals, health systems, and frontline clinical work, this archive reflects the core ideas from Lean Hospitals: improvement without layoffs, learning from mistakes, daily problem solving, and leadership behaviors that make sustainable improvement possible in healthcare.

What’s In Store for 2011: Lean Blog and Mark Graban

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Again, my apologies for writing about myself today, following up on my post about the upcoming 2nd edition of my book Lean Hospitals: Improving...

Announcement: Working on a 2nd Revised, New Edition of “Lean Hospitals”

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Happy New Year! Today, I will have two posts that are embarrassingly self referential. Then back to normal stuff tomorrow. My main announcement is that...

“Lean Hospitals” Now Available on Kindle

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As Amazon's Kindle has gotten more popular, I've gotten a lot of questions about when my book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and...

Reader Quiz – Guess the Lean Blog Global Readership

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Here's something new to try -- a way of giving away a copy of my book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee...

Interviewed for articles in "Becker’s Hospital Review"

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I was recently interviewed by a reporter at Becker's Hospital Review and these are the articles, linked below, written for a hospital and operating...

The Only Lean Path is an Unclear Path?

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I've been fortunate and grateful that my book, Lean Hospitals, has received good reviews on Amazon: 5 Star Reviews = 11 4 Star Reviews...

Mark Interviewed on "Quality Conversations"

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Reminder: I am teaching a two-day introductory workshop called "Key Concepts of Lean in Healthcare." If you have considered or investigated this workshop, but...

I Sometimes Sort of Hate My Book’s Title, I Think

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Another interesting discussion that came up during my trip to The Netherlands... my book's title: Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction (see...

Article about Lean Hospitals in my Local Paper

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Doctors praise consultant's book | News for Keller, Texas | The Keller CitizenThis story isn't important enough to be a main blog post for...

Observations from One End of the Hospital

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Lean Leap to Health Care #7 (click for Part #6) by Scott McDuffee "Where is the main entrance? Why do I follow the signs to HERE?...

Hospital Badge – Be Patient

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Lean Leap to Health Care #5 (click for Part #4) by Scott McDuffee Why do we call a customer a patient in Health Care? Is...

Top 10 Amazon Healthcare Administration Books

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Forgive my horn tooting here, but here is the current list of Amazon's Top 10 Healthcare Administration books (rankings change frequently). So what I'm thrilled...
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