Description: Rethinking Lean in Healthcare by Thomas G. Zidel Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description This book deals with a hospitals struggle to secure and maintain financial stability. In the story, the leadership team of a fictional hospital adopts the tools and principles associated with the Toyota Production System or Lean. The story takes the reader through leaderships arduous journey from rejecting the methodology to embracing it, to successful implementation. This book is important because many of our nations hospitals are besieged with financial difficulties with declining reimbursement and the public is losing confidence in our hospitals ability to provide quality care without error. Lean can provide relief from these issues but only if it is properly implemented. Author Biography Tom Zidel is the president of Lean Hospitals, LLC, a consulting company, which provides consulting, facilitation and training exclusively to healthcare organizations. With more than 25 years experience in Lean and Six Sigma implementation, Tom has guided many organizations through their Lean journey. He has dedicated the last 15 years to working exclusively with healthcare organizations. He is the author of the bestselling book A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare: How to Implement Lean Principles in Hospitals, Medical Offices, Clinics and Other Healthcare Organizations . Tom has earned the prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for his book Lean Done Right: Achieve and Maintain Reform in Your Healthcare Organization, which was also a 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards Silver medal winner, in the category of operations management. Tom has trained/or mentored hundreds of healthcare professionals from many of our nations leading hospitals, including Yale New-Haven Health System, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Aurora Health Care, in the use of Lean and DMAIC methods. Tom Zidel is a pioneer in Lean implementation in healthcare. His presentations and workshops are stimulating, energetic and functional. His unique approach to Lean implementation allows organizations to sustain their lean initiative by creatiing a Lean culture and systems thinking. Details ISBN 1498771297 ISBN-13 9781498771290 Title Rethinking Lean in Healthcare Author Thomas G. Zidel Format Paperback Year 2016 Pages 198 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc GE_Item_ID:139835213; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781498771290
Book Title: Rethinking Lean in Healthcare
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Name: Rethinking Lean in Healthcare : A Business Novel on How a Hospital Restored Quality Patient Care and Obtained Financial Stability Using Lean
Language: English
Publisher: Productivity Press
Subject: Administration, Industries / Service, Hospital Administration & Care, Quality Control
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.4 in
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Thomas G. Zidel
Subject Area: Business & Economics, Medical
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
