Megan McIntyre

Performance Improvement | Lean Management

Identifying the Seven Wastes to Build a Lean Healthcare Improvement Foundation

Start Your Healthcare Improvement Journey with This Lean Fundamental Imagine a healthcare organization where employees lack the training and tools to be successful at their jobs, where each employee deals with sizable but varied batches of work assigned on an apparent whim in an environment where “good enough” is standard, where supplies are stored “just in case” they will be needed by someone and much of a shift is spent doing...

Recent Blog Posts

Category

Patient Experience | Quality Improvement | Quality and Safety

How Eliminating Wasteful Processes Helped a Team Deliver the Perfect Patient Meal Tray

September 28, 2016 | Megan McIntyre

An interview with Megan McIntyre Why is waste elimination so important to delivering quality care? MM: Waste elimination is essential to the Virginia Mason...

Performance Improvement | Lean Management | Quality Improvement

Removing Muda From Daily Work

September 21, 2016 | Megan McIntyre

“Muda” is a Japanese term that, when considered in health care, describes wasteful aspects of processes that add no value for the patient. At Virginia Mason, we use...

Selected Resources

Healthcare Improvement Insights

Explore articles, case studies, and research that help healthcare leaders drive sustainable improvement.

Mistake Proofing in Ambulatory, Procedural, and ...

Welcome to our blog miniseries: Transforming Healthcare, featuring some of the biggest takeaways ...

Mistake Proofing in Ambulatory, Procedural, and Inpatient Care

Welcome to our blog miniseries: Transforming Healthcare, featuring some of the biggest takeaways ...

Culture of Care

Explore how equity-focused improvement, coaching and lived experience can strengthen staff ...

Culture of Care

Explore how equity-focused improvement, coaching and lived experience can strengthen staff ...

Bridge to Excellence with Three Rivers Hospital

Join host Brenda McLeod in conversation with Jamie Boyer, German Meza, and Karen Gifford about ...

Bridge to Excellence with Three Rivers Hospital

Join host Brenda McLeod in conversation with Jamie Boyer, German Meza, and Karen Gifford about ...