Performance improvement for healthcare : leading change with lean, six sigma, and constraints management / Bahadir Inozu and others

The book lays out an integrated approach for using three improvement methods that have proven to be the most effective way to transform hospital operations in terms of patient outcomes and experience, financial viability, and employee satisfaction. This pioneering guide presents a strategy for managing bottlenecks, eliminating waste, reducing errors, and containing costs in healthcare organizations, as well as sustaining the gains achieved. The book is an in-depth guide for healthcare leaders and includes topics such as: Assessing your organization's readiness for adopting a best-of-breed performance improvement strategy, Using Constraints Management to identify leverage points and break constraints that exist in all healthcare organizations, Building a program that consistently meets milestones on time and on budget, Preventing common issues with sustaining improvement initiatives.