The June 9th and 10th summit in Orlando is shaping up to be a terrific look at how some healthcare organizations are successfully changing their culture to continuous improvement using lean
At the summit you will hear presentations from Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound on their daily management work which has led to remarkable improvements in cost and quality. You will hear from ThedaCare on the redesign of inpatient care called Collaborative Care which has led to zero medication reconciliation errors for 3 years in a row,as well as their work on the the redesign of primary care, their attempt at "medical home" using lean. The University of Michigan Medical Center will describe their senior executive use of A3 thinking and Park Nicollet will reveal how they used 3P to radically change the way they build facilities. You will also hear from the Iowa Health System on their unique way to introduce lean thinking to all their front line staff. Mercy hospital in Cedar Rapids Ia. will relay information on how to create continuous flow in emergency rooms and Hotel-Dieu Grace hospital in Windsor Canada will explain end to end patient flow through a whole hospital.
These presentations are only one part of the summit which include great networking opportunities as well as a CEO panel that includes the CEOs of McLeod in South Carolina, St.Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg and Harvard Vanguard Medical Group in Boston.
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