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• Title:Lean hospitals : improving quality, patient safety, and employee satisfaction / Mark Graban ; foreword by J. Michael Rona.
  
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• Author/Creator:Graban, Mark.
  
• Published/Created:Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WX157 .G64 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Hospitals--United States--Administration.
  Hospital care--United States--Quality control.
  Hospital care--United States--Cost effectiveness.
  Patients--United States--Safety measures.
  
• Medical Subjects: Hospital Administration--economics.
  Hospital Administration--methods.
  Efficiency, Organizational.
  Total Quality Management--methods.
  Total Quality Management--organization & administration.
  
• Description:xxiii, 252 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
  
• Notes:"A Productivity Press book."
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781420083804 (paper)
  1420083805 (paper)
  
• Contents:1. case for Lean hospitals
  2. Overview of Lean for hospitals
  3. Value and waste
  4. Observing the process and value streams
  5. Standardized work as a foundation of Lean
  6. Lean methods : visual management, 5S, and Kanban
  7. Proactive root cause problem solving
  8. Preventing errors
  9. Improving flow
  10. Engaging and leading employees
  11. Getting started with Lean
  13. vision for a Lean hospital.