Lean Healthcare News & Articles

Healthcare Performance Articles

• HPP-LHW Published in JCAHO Journal on Quality
• "Using lean methods to improve OR turnover times": Marshall Leslie; Charles Hagood; Adam Royner RN; Charles P. Reece Jr. RN; Sara Maloney
• "Lean Facilities Design: Developing a Lean Healthcare Approach For The Sophisticated Clients of Today": Ken Lasley; Charles Hagood
• "Maintenance and Facilities Engineering Evaluation: Do I Need One, and Why?": Charles Hagood
• Lean Is At Work… From the Factory Floor to the Operating Room
• Lean Healthcare: A Physicians Perspective\
• The 12 ½ Truths of a Lean Healthcare Transformation

HPP/TAG Press Releases

• Healthcare Performance Partners and Lean Healthcare West Join Forces
• Charles Hagood, Managing Partner, Speaks to MBA Finance Students about “Bootstrapping”
• Life skills Project
• HPP Brochure
• HPP and TAG are Feature Story in Nashville Business Journal

Lean Healthcare Articles

• Lean Concepts in Healthcare - Turning the Heat on Wastage
• Hospitals All Across Iowa Are Embracing Lean Healthcare TPS Approach
• Video of How Physician’s Office in Colorado Embraces Lean Healthcare to Improve Throughput and Satisfaction
• Healthcare Streamlines using “Lean Thinking” Approach
• Pittsburgh Regional Hospital Uses Toyota Production System (Lean) to Improve Procedures
• Article That Outlines Lean Initiatives At Various Hospitals (Plus Tie In To Leap Frog, IHI, and others)
• Lean Healthcare gets attention of Minnesota NBC Affiliates Attention
• Fixing Healthcare from the Inside - Harvard Business Review
• Lean Toward Lean: Clear Thinking For Better Health(Care) - Maya Talisman Frost
• Lean Healthcare? It Works! - Patricia Panchak
• Industry Week Article on Lean in Healthcare
• Industry Week Article Curing Healthcare Cost Blues Using Lean
• CNN Reports that Lean Practioners Are In Demand…Make More Money
• Power of Lean in the Laboratory: A Clinical Application

“HPP has brought a more streamlined way of thinking to our team. We have excellent leaders in our organization and HPP has given them tools that have allowed us to increase our throughput without adding cost. In fact HPP has helped us work towards improving our bottom line results." Jeff Fee, CEO Parkridge Medical Center

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