Instead of building new hospitals that import old systems and problems; the time has come to reexamine many of our ideas about what a hospital should be. Can a building foster continuous improvement? How can we design it to be flexible and useful well into the future? How can we do more with less?Winner of a 2013 Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence!Answering these questions and more; Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future explains how hospitals can be built to increase patient safety and reduce wait times while eliminating waste; lowering costs; and easing some of healthcarersquo;s most persistent problems. It supplies a simplified timeline of architectural planningmdash;from start to finishmdash;to guide readers through the various stages of the Lean design development philosophy; including Lean architectural design and Lean work design. It includes examples from several real healthcare facility design and construction projects; as well as interviews with hospital leaders and architects.Check out a video of the authors discussing their book; Lean-Led Hospital Design at the 2012 Med Assets Healthcare Business Summit. www.modernhealthcare.com/section/LiveatHBS
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