It’s hard to prepare for the next pandemic when you’re in the middle of the first one. But hospitals and their PPE providers have no choice. With the uncertainties around COVID-19 and new variants emerging, healthcare providers and PPE suppliers do not have the luxury of waiting. So, what can we learn from last year […]
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The know-how Stefan Metzker gained on his journey – first as a Cape Town intensive care doctor, then supplying African doctors with Chinese-made surgical gear and now as a Swiss hospital CEO – prepared him to help when COVID-19 struck. Answering a call from Zurich officials desperate for face masks, surgical gowns and gloves, Metzker […]
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By Lucy Xenophon at Mount Sinai Morningside This is the fourth edition in a series of write-ups on innovations that Mount Sinai Morningside hospital has implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. We hope you find the accounts of our agile response useful and we encourage you to reach out with any questions. […]
Many healthcare professionals are experiencing pressure injuries from the use of PPE. Here is some standard work that Children’s Mercy Hospital shared with us on how to prevent those injuries. Download Standard Work
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The COVID-19 pandemic is causing shortages of PPE, meaning that healthcare organizations all over the world must finding creative ways to help ensure that their staff has what they need to effectively care for patients. Catalysis Healthcare Value Network member, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, in Torrance, Ca, formed an assembly line to produce face shields […]
Here are some sources to obtain much needed PPE: 3M Emergency Hotline They prefer that you use email: globsecopscenter@mmm.com You will need to include: your contact information, your hospital, what you are needing. They prefer that it comes from the health systems domain. If you have further questions, you can call: 651-733-2700 This is their […]
Originally published at Science Direct. To obtain a copy of this article, click here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221307641530097X By John Toussaint, MD Healthcare is steeped in the scientific method tradition. Placebo controlled double blinded studies are front and center of evidenced based medicine. But research has lagged far behind in management science. Very little evidence exists for the […]
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Can a production system developed to make better, safer cars also make better, safer healthcare? A growing number of hospitals in Canada seem to think so — that’s why they have adopted the “Lean” production system. The province of Saskatchewan is so convinced, it’s bringing in ‘lean’ province-wide. Also known as”The Toyota Way” — the […]
ThedaCare, which likewise has been employing Toyota’s industrial efficiency principles in its hospitals to great effect for more than 10 years, is now seeing great interest from other organizations, as the health care industry moves to reap the rewards of its seemingly-necessary move to… To read the article, click here
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