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Author: Mark Graban
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Healthcare Kaizen focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement, or Kaizen, for healthcare professionals and organizations. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means "change for the better," as popularized by Masaaki Imai in his 1986 book Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success and through the books of Norman Bodek, both of whom contributed introductory material for this book.
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In 1989, Dr. Donald M. Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, endorsed the principles of Kaizen in the New England Journal of Medicine, describing it as "the continuous search for opportunities for all processes to get better." This bookshows how to make this goal a reality.
Healthcare Kaizen shares some of the methods used by numerous hospitals around the world, including Franciscan St. Francis Health, where co-author Joe Swartz has led these efforts. Most importantly, the book covers the management mindsets and philosophies required to make Kaizen work effectively in a hospital department or as an organization-wide program.
All of the examples in the book were shared by leading healthcare organizations, with over 200 full-color pictures and visual illustrations of Kaizen-based improvements that were initiated by nurses, physicians, housekeepers, senior executives and other staff members at all levels.
Healthcare Kaizen will be helpful for organizations that have embraced weeklong improvement events, but now want to follow the lead of ThedaCare, Virginia Mason Medical Center, and others who have moved beyond just doing events into a more complete management system based on Lean or the Toyota Production System.
It’s often said, without much reflection, that people hate change. The experiences shared in this book prove that people actually love change when they are fully engaged in the process, get to make improvements that improve patient care and make their day less frustrating, and when they don’t fear being laid off as a result of their improvements.
Mark Graban explains why his new book Healthcare Kaizen is a great resource for healthcare organizations looking to make improvements on the frontlines.(www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4JdaH03Dbo&feature=youtu.be) Check out a recent entry about this book on the Virginia Mason Medical Center Blog, Could this new book help drive your Lean journey? (http://virginiamasonblog.org/2012/09/05/could-this-new-book-help-drive-your-lean-journey/) Check out what the experts at the Franciscan St. Francis Health System have to say about Healthcare Kaizen. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGmP5gLEPo&feature=c4-overview&list=UU7jiTxn4nkMzOE5eTbf0Upw
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- Paperback: 408 pages
- Publisher: Productivity Press; 1 edition (June 21, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1439872961
- ISBN-13: 978-1439872963
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Free Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements
The crisis in healthcare is real and it is the people in the hospitals, clinics, and nursing facilities that will solve this crisis as it lumbers towards us. The people working in healthcare are (for the most) smart, resourceful, and dedicated to their patients. This new book on Healthcare Kaizen gives them practical and yet comprehensive methods to address the waste and create on-going and increasing improvement. The crisis can not be solved by piecemeal projects. As the authors of Healthcare Kaizen demonstrate, it requires executive leadership, a real vision of excellence, and proven methods of problem solving and improvement. I highly recommend this book.
By Brian Maskell
I preordered the book as soon as it was announced and waited eagerly as the date for publishing approached. My high expectations were not dissapointed as I read the book cover to cover in a few days. I immediately noted down some great quick win examples that we can use at our hospital to start a kaizen journey. I love the idea of small cycle change as the hospital already has enough big change projects. After talking to the CEO about the book he got me to order 10 copies, one for each of the C-level people (and a few spare).
If you are looking for a book packed with proven examples of continuous improvement at work in hospitals, you don't need to look further than here.
By Andy Hyde