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Greetings!
Thanks for your continued interest in the Healthcare Value Leaders. It is our ongoing aim to help spread lean practices and management methods for the benefit of patients, healthcare professionals, and their organizations - we hope this newsletter furthers this aim.
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LEAN HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION SUMMIT
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Join the Lean Enterprise Institute and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value June 9 and 10 in Orlando at the first annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, specially designed to deliver comprehensive, high-quality information about fundamentally improving healthcare delivery through lean thinking. Optional Pre-Summit Workshops are being held on June 7 and 8.
This public event will feature a keynote by John Toussaint, M.D., co-author of the upcoming book On The Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry, as well as plenary sessions by senior leaders from leading lean organizations such as ThedaCare and Group Health. A wide variety of breakouts and learning sessions will cover topics such as A3 thinking, end-to-end patient flow, facilities and process design, lean in emergency departments, and new lean models for primary care and inpatient care.
Lean More and Register Today
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NEW BOOK COMING SOON: ON THE MEND
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 Insights from ThedaCare's Journey
- Using
value-stream mapping to cut the average "door-to-balloon" time for heart attack
patients at two hospitals from 90 minutes to 37.
- How
"building in quality" broke down divisions among medical specialties so teams
developed patient care plans faster.
- How
"one piece flow" saved time in treating ischemic stroke patients, increasing
the number of patients receiving a CT scan within 25 minutes from 51% to 89%.
- And,
perhaps most importantly - how other healthcare leaders can begin transformations
using a nine-step action plan based
on what ThedaCare did - and what it would do differently.
Download Chapter 2 and Other Preview Material:
The book is set to be released in June in conjunction with our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit.
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INTERESTED IN JOINING THE NETWORK?
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| Third Network Forming in Late 2010
With all of the talk of healthcare reform, politicians alone
cannot create a clear path to quality improvement and cost reduction.
"Real healthcare reform" comes at the front lines of healthcare, as
medical professionals and administrators work together to redesign care
using lean thinking. As these efforts take place around the world, the
spirit of collaboration and shared purpose in healthcare often pulls
people together to help each other in this important work.
The
first Healthcare Value Leaders Network, established in June 2009,
consists of 14 organizations. In April 2010, a second network of 12
organizations was formed. We anticipate forming a third network before
the end of 2010. The goal of each network is to accelerate the learning
and lean journey of each organization - through in-depth gemba visits,
educational opportunities, peer-to-peer networking, a private
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NETWORK MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
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 The Latest in Lean Healthcare
Here are some of the most recent articles and citations about lean and our Healthcare Value Leaders Network members.
Turning St. B into a lean machine
An article from the Winnipeg Free Press highlights Lean improvement efforts at St. Boniface Hospital including improved door-to-balloon time, also making mention of our Network "gemba visit"
Windsor hospitals learn from Toyota
The Windsor Star reports on Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital and how lean methods are helping them produce shorter waiting times, improved patient satisfaction and reduced staff
turnover. HDGH also published recently in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine ( read more).
CNN recently aired a video highlighting Group Health's innovative Patient-Centered Medical Home work, which has lean methods and philosophies embedded within.
For more articles and resources, visit our website.
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You can keep track of our Network activities and publications via Twitter and Facebook:
 Healthcare Value Leaders Network (@HCVLN)
 Facebook page for the book On the Mend
Twitter feed for On the Mend
Lean Enterprise Institute Healthcare info (@LEIhealthcare)
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Thanks for reading!
Sincerely,
Healthcare Value Leaders
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