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Podcast, The Lens – 63. Psychological Barriers to Problem-Solving and Agility in Healthcare

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Dr. Pierre-Luc Fournier, Professor of Operations Management at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, and a contributor to our partner CLEAR (the Center for Lean Engagement and Research) at the University of California – Berkeley School of Public Health, shares about the results of a study done on the psychological barriers to problem-solving and agility […]

Podcast, The Lens – 61. Closing the Loop at Intermountain Healthcare

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Matt Pollard, a former ER doctor and now Vice President of Continuous Improvement at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City discusses the importance of closing the loop and constant diligence in maintaining and examining your systems to keep them moving forward. Related Items Creating a Lean Management System Overview Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit Catalysis Healthcare […]

Podcast, The Lens – 59. Lean Management IS your Quality-PI-Safety-Risk Management Program

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Dr. Lee Erickson, Senior VP & Chief Quality Officer with Tufts Medicine in Massachusetts shares about Integrated Daily Management Systems and Tiered huddles and how they are all interconnected to improve all outcomes. Related Items Catalysis Healthcare Value Network Creating a Lean Management System Overview workshop Customized Services

Lean Leadership in the Time of the Great Resignation

By: Felicity Pino, MS, MPA, Director of Performance Improvement at Children’s Mercy Throughout 2021, more than 47.8 million American employees voluntarily left their jobs, an all-time record, and 12 million more than in 2020 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022).  The year saw so many resignations that the trend became known as “the Great Resignation.”  Currently, […]

Podcast, The Lens – 58. How to Build a Better Boat and Keep it Afloat

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We are joined by Jeannine Grinnell, CEO of UW Medicine – Valley Medical Center, who presented a keynote at the 2022 Catalysis Lean Healthcare Summit in Salt Lake City, sharing about their journey and work to “build a better boat.” Related Items Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit Catalysis Healthcare Value Network Customized Services

Podcast, The Lens – 57. Adapting Huddles for a Hybrid Remote World

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            Daily huddles are an important element in a lean management system. Shelcy Kamrud and Natalie Bergstrom, from Mount Sinai Morningside, share with us about how they implemented and adapted their daily huddle standard to their Patient Care Liaison team, virtually. Related Items Article “Adapting Daily Management Huddles for a […]

Adapting Daily Management Huddles for a Hybrid Remote World

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Co-written by Shelcy Kamrud and Natalie Bergstrom The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic swept through New York City in March of 2020. At Mount Sinai Morningside, teams across the hospital were also in the beginning stages of implementing both communication and improvement huddles by utilizing large dry erase boards in their departments. While many frontline clinical […]

Podcast, The Lens – 56. Adding a Higher Tiered Non-Clinical Huddle

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            Kim Brown and Beau Gostomsky, from Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, join us to talk about how they have implemented and learned from huddles for Shared Services leaders. Related Items Lean Management System in Action workshop Creating a Lean Management System workshop Beyond Heroes by Kim Barnas Transformation Roadmap Services Catalysis […]