Appleton, Wis. (June 9, 2015) — The ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value is excited to release Management on the Mend: The Healthcare Executive Guide to System Transformation, by renowned healthcare leader and Center CEO John Toussaint, MD. The book is Dr. Toussaint’s third and is published by the Center, an education institute for healthcare leaders and payers to radically improve healthcare quality and outcomes for patients.
While studying hundreds of organizations transitioning to lean healthcare, Dr. Toussaint witnessed many flaws and triumphs. The organizations that win — creating better value for patients while removing waste in the system — have senior managers who lead by example at the frontline of care. The best health systems also have discovered ways to engage everyone in solving problems and embracing change.Management on the Mend brings together lessons and insights from those individual lean journeys to describe the Center’s best practice framework to lean transformation. The book outlines a step by step roadmap — through stories from 11 organizations doing the work — that proves lean healthcare is not only possible; it’s necessary.
“How an organization transforms is situational. In other words, there is no prescription for a lean transformation. The approach will vary depending on the type of organization — rural hospital, multi-state system, academic campus,” Dr. Toussaint said. “What we do through Management on the Mend is outline the basic framework of that transformation for systems and leaders to work within.”
By sharing results and first-hand accounts, Management on the Mend highlights the successes and challenges in changing the behaviors of leaders, supervisors, and managers. Specifically, Management on the Mend includes lessons on:
Creating common goals
Finding a lever to motivate people to action
Communicating to managers
Defining what success looks like
The book also examines the process by which organizations have achieved goals in five areas: safety, quality, people, delivery, and cost. Supporting appendices are available for download to those who purchase the book.
“During the development of Management on the Mend, our editor, Jim Womack, came to the realization that no one has written about the issues covered in this book,” said Steven Bollinger, director of Product Development for the Center. “Because Dr. Toussaint was examining the healthcare organizations that are part of the Healthcare Value Network, his pool of successful organizations was deeper than any one author has had access to before.”
The book complements the Center’s broader lean management system resources, including educational experiences, webinars, white papers and more. The Center is committed to helping leaders learn, share and connect around healthcare value. Our previous titles, On the Mend, Potent Medicine and Beyond Heroes, all earned the prestigious Shingo Research Award for their impact on the industry. Management on the Mend is generating similar excitement.
Management on the Mend is available now at ManagementontheMend.org and also available for Kindle.
Advance Praise for Management on the MendManagement on the Mend is a playbook for healthcare leaders seeking to transform their organizations. Drawing on the experiences of the most successful healthcare transformations to date, the book describes the “hows and whys” of the decisions required to achieve transformation. More important, it provides options that have been shown to work under different circumstances. A must-read for healthcare leaders concerned with delivering value based on cost, safety, and patient experience. —Peter Ward, Richard M. Ross Chair in Management, Ohio State UniversityManagement on the Mend goes beyond the techniques and tools to provide a road map for transforming the entire organization. Concrete, rich examples are provided to help healthcare leaders create new organizations that can sustain consistent improvements in care on a daily basis. Essential reading for all who recognize the need to go beyond their own personal and their organization’s comfort zones. — Stephen M. Shortell, PhD, MPH, MBA, dean emeritus, Haas School of Business, UC-BerkeleyManagement on the Mend
- By John Toussaint, MD, founder and CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value
- 205 pages
- $35 (hardcover), volume discounts available, visit createvalue.org/shop for details
- To purchase the book and download supporting materials, visit ManagementontheMend.orgAbout the Author
In addition to his leadership of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, Dr. Toussaint has served as chairman of the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality and chairman of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Health Information Organization. Dr. Toussaint’s healthcare improvement work using Toyota Production System principles has been well documented in articles published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Health Affairs, the Harvard Business Review Blog, and Frontiers in Health Management. He is the author of two previous books and is a recognized lean healthcare expert around the world.
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