What health care leaders can do to reduce the number of medical errors in their organization: It starts with culture. A culture of empowerment enables an...
What is continuous flow? In manufacturing, continuous flow occurs when a single product is built from start to finish on an assembly line that doesn’t stop. Henry...
For health care organizations everywhere, patient safety is a top concern. But how can an organization go from being vigilant about safety to actually fixing the...
3P – Production Preparation Process, a five-day event in which a team focuses on building a production system for a new plant, process or product. 5S – A strategy...
An Interview with Robert Mecklenburg, MD, Center for Health Care Solutions, Virginia Mason Institute In Harvard Business Review’s article “The Employer-Led Health...
Problem Like so many other hospitals and medical groups, Virginia Mason grappled with how to help clinicians improve their performance. Typically, physicians...
“For me, leadership here is a vocation and I think that’s true for many of us.” – Charleen Tachibana, RN A lot has been written lately about burnout among health...
“From my perspective, we all have a common purpose, and that is to return healthy and satisfied employees to work faster and more affordably.” Robert Mecklenburg,...
A large health care organization wanted to transform its patient and provider experience by improving new patient visits, the imaging process and electronic...
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Mistake-Proofing Primary Care
Start Your Lean Health Care Journey Learn More Problem Virginia Mason recognized that mistakes and ...
Mistake-Proofing Primary Care
Start Your Lean Health Care Journey Learn More Problem Virginia Mason recognized that mistakes and ...
Why a Midwest Health System Went to Virginia ...
“The fact that Virginia Mason is driven by the same purpose we are – serving patients and ...
Why a Midwest Health System Went to Virginia Mason Institute for Help
“The fact that Virginia Mason is driven by the same purpose we are – serving patients and ...
Managing Phone Calls in Primary Care
Problem Responding to patient phone calls at Virginia Mason consumed a great deal of clinic time ...
Managing Phone Calls in Primary Care
Problem Responding to patient phone calls at Virginia Mason consumed a great deal of clinic time ...