The ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value welcomes Patsy Engel as education manager. In her new role, Engel will act as faculty for the Lean Management System programs and will lead the development of new products and services geared for healthcare organizations in North America. Engel previously was a director of operations at ThedaCare, a seven-hospital […]
We are looking for Wisconsin healthcare leaders to participate in an innovative project to develop and submit a State Health System Innovation Plan. Click image to read about this important project!
Once again, Consumer Reports is evaluating customer satisfaction and hospital performance, this time in California. Among the survey questions were: Did the doctor listen carefully and spend enough time with the patient? Were test results provided? Were receptionists as courteous and helpful as they should be? And was the patient able to see the doctor within […]
Taking a leap of faith, Michael Grogan decided to “coach lean thinking in a hospital in one of the poorest, but most interesting countries in the world, Tanzania.” He’s had support from the lean community, as well. Michael reflects, “I’m grateful as well for the support we have from the lean community. Five lean coaches have […]
The ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value has released a new 25-minute video, Moving Beyond Budgeting in Healthcare: How Finance Can Support Operational Excellence. Appleton, Wis., January 14, 2015 The DVD video examines two healthcare organizations that have taken steps to reduce waste in their financial planning and provides a professional financial perspective on how to […]
While reporting on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, journalist Steven Brill was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition that required heart surgery. “There I was: a reporter who had made hospital presidents and hospital executives and health care executives and insurance executives sweat because I asked them all kinds of questions about their salaries […]
In a recent article by Patricia Moody, she highlights how Seattle Children’s Hospital used “classic supply management, Japanese shop floor methods and 4P to save money, free up clinicians for more bedside care and build its new, smaller facility. That’s right, they got better and smaller!” Read the full article here.
For Immediate Release For more information contact: Nicole Singer nsinger@blmpr.com (414) 270-3000, ext. 231 CLINICAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE NETWORK ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBER Appleton, Wis. (Dec. 4, 2014) – The Clinical Business Intelligence Network (CBIN) is pleased to announce its newest member, Lee Memorial Health System, located in Southwest Florida. CBIN is a peer-to-peer learning community that […]
Doing the right thing for the health of a population – in this case improving the health of children with asthma – illustrates exactly why our healthcare system must change. David Bailey, a doctor and CEO of Healthcare Value Network member Nemours, shares his experience with an experiment that brought together a community and improved […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Nicole Singer nsinger@blmpr.com (414) 270-3000, ext. 231 Appleton, Wis. (Nov. 12, 2014) — Members of the Healthcare Value Network (HVN) released results of their latest healthcare improvement efforts in May and again in July, and now are continuing that commitment to transparency with their latest quarterly results on […]
