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Saskatoon Health Region Takes Lean to the Drawing Board |
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A key ingredient of quality healthcare is the care facility itself.
Recognizing this, Saskatoon Health Region is bringing Lean process into the design phase of the new Children's Hospital of Saskatchewan, due for completion in 2015.
The result will be a facility designed to optimize patient flow, marking a departure from the traditional departmental planning approach.
"Because of the challenges healthcare is facing, there is a push to build patient-focused centres that support better and quicker service with the same resources," says Larry Coté, President of Lean Advisors.
"Lean is a relatively new concept in healthcare in terms of construction projects," says Louis Guilbeault, Executive VP of ZW Group, which is managing the project. "What this is doing is challenging users to think about how they are going to operate in the facility." Read More
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