Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0071761624 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Performance Improvement for Healthcare" according to Tamer Acikalin. The book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare, by Bahadir Inozu et al., principles at NOVACES, LLC, explains how healthcare administrators can manage their companies by using contemporary management concepts of Lean, Six Sigma and Constraints Management. These concepts all have been around for a long time, employed widely in other economic sectors and to some degree in healthcare. The book teaches how to appropriately combine these methods in an important sector of the economy.Healthcare still exhibits features of a cottage industry in the area of management, even while utilizing the most advanc. Patient Safety and Quality through 3 lenses Fran Charney, RN, MSHA, CPHQ, CPPS, CPSO, CPHRM, FASHRM This book, in my opinion, allows an integrated approach to performance improvement. This integrated approach is comparable to looking thorough three lenses into a system: Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management lenses. Constraint management was a new lens for me. Constraint Management "is like looking at the forest from a hot air balloon and selecting the best tree from which to pick the fruit." The Lean lens shows us the most simplest way to pick the low hanging fruit with very little effort and the six sigma lens shows us how to consistently pick the bulk of the sweeter fruits, without bruisi. If you are a medical professional interested in improving, read this book! Because I have relatives in the medical field (and have written on lean, six sigma, and constraints management), I read this book so I would know if I should recommend it. The answer is YES - read this book before you begin to implement ANY improvement process; it will save you time, money, and agony.Previous reviews have highlighted how the authors skillfully weave the three most popular improvement methodologies together and tell you when and how each should be applied. I agree wholeheartedly with their assessments. What they did not mention is the positive attitude the authors apply to current o
and abroad. The book is an in-depth guide for healthcare leaders and includes topics such as:Assessing your organization's readiness for adopting a best-of-breed performance improvement strategyHow to deploy an integrated performance improvement program and get far better results than with traditional methodsUsing Constraints Management to identify leverage points and break constraints that exist in all healthcare organizationsBuilding a program that consistently meets milestones on time and on budgetHow to begin thinking at the system-level of complex healthcare organizations and target high-impact opportunitiesPreventing common issues with sustaining improvement initiatives. This pioneering guide presents a strategy for managing bottlenecks, eliminating waste, reducing errors, and containing costs in healthcare organizations, as well as sustaining the gains achieved. Real-world case studies illustrate successful performance improvement implementations that have realized breakthrough operational and financial results in the U.S. PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR REVOLUTIONIZING HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS "If I had to sum up this book in one word, the word would be 'brilliant'! This is one of the most insightful books on TOC, not just for healthcare, that I have ever read." --
Inozu has been teaching undergraduate, graduate, and adult education courses on Process Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, Reliability and Maintenance Management, Marine Engineering, and Executive Leader Training courses on CPI for over 20 years. . As a Master Training Specialist, CAPT Mount has conducted strategic planning sessions for multiple organizations, with a specific emphasis on employee and executive development of the mission, vision, values, and guiding principles. About the AuthorBahadir Inozu, Ph.D., is a Founding Partner and the Chief Executive Officer of NOVACES, LLC, a leading provider of continuous process improvement consulting and training services. He also leads a team of five Master Black Belts embedded at mid-level commands across the Navy and led the CPI Deployment at United Health Services. She
As a NOVACES Master Black Belt for healthcare, Vickie provides Lean Six Sigma expertise and leadership to develop and guide Lean Six Sigma deployment strategies, develop and deliver training, lead complex, enterprise-level projects and events, and mentor Black Belt and Master Black Belt candidates. She has extensive experience as an educator, serving as hospital education coordinator and adjunct faculty in the Biology department at Cowley College. He oversees the company’s service