Facility Design

Patient Experience | Facility Design

Achieving 10-15% Cost Reduction Through Thoughtful Facility Planning

A client recently requested our assistance in redefining how facilities are developed within their organization. In sitting down together, their C-suite shared that it had been reviewing prior capital projects and were keen on preventing cost escalation that result in millions of additional dollars and time due to late-stage development changes. Such expenditures are often linked to supporting care delivery without a clear,...

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Lean Management | Strategic Leadership | Access to Care | Optimizing Flow | Facility Design

Leveraging 3P in Health Care Facility Design

March 10, 2018 | Virginia Mason Institute

For more than a decade, interactive and intensive improvement meetings — also known as kaizen events — have created a forum to refine and improve the quality,...

Lean Management | Strategic Leadership | Access to Care | Optimizing Flow | Facility Design

Using a 3P to Create a Vision and Plan for Better Patient Care

July 20, 2016 | Chris Backous

How 3Ps enable a new vision to take hold A 3P (Production Preparation Process) workshop is an approach that enables health care teams to create revolutionary...

Access to Care | Optimizing Flow | Facility Design

Making Your New Space Work for Your Team

May 29, 2015 | Chris Backous

“Furniture is what people buy. Flow is what people create and what adds value to your organization.” – Chris Backous, MHA Using teams to create a new patient...

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Healthcare Improvement Insights

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Mistake Proofing in Ambulatory, Procedural, and ...

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Mistake Proofing in Ambulatory, Procedural, and Inpatient Care

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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 ...