GE Healthcare

Lean Healthcare
Simplifying the care environment
Healthcare is complicated. But caring is simple. Since 1991, GE Healthcare has been using Lean tools to simplify and streamline our own manufacturing and business operations. Now, hospitals are asking GE to help them make caring for their patients simpler. By applying Lean principles to your hospital operations, our staff of experienced clinical operations consultants can help you take the focus off broken processes and put it back on caring for your patients. We know not everyone is convinced that Lean tools are right for their hospital. After all, the hospital is not a factory, and your patients are not widgets. Thats why GE Healthcares Performance Solutions team combines clinical and business experience with proven GE tools like Change Acceleration Process (CAP) to enable your staff to lead and sustain change.

Since deploying Lean throughout an enterprise can be a difcult task, GE Healthcare offers a variety of smaller scale Lean experiences. Lean Performance Improvement with Kaizen In healthcare you need results fast especially when broken processes negatively affect patient care. In this fast-paced, hands-on 3.5-day event, GE leaders work collaboratively with your process experts. We help your departments streamline and simplify operations while keeping focus on their most important customer the patient. Examples of Lean Kaizen event successes: Central Sterile Processing: Reducing case cart travel distance by 80 percent, freeing up one full-time equivalent in the decontamination process Operating Room Turnaround Time: Reducing clinician process distances by 54 percent and streamlining patient preparation time by 21 percent Internal Supply Distribution: Eliminating the space needed by 25 percent while improving throughput from the dock to distribution by 67 percent It was energizing and amazing how much we accomplished in a week! - Jennie Johns-Ford, Manager, Sterile Processing, Columbia Saint Marys, Milwaukee, WI.

Lean Executive Working Session Deploying Lean is not for the amateur. It can be complicated and not without risk. Designed for senior executive teams, this one-day, high-impact vision and strategy session includes engaging simulations, exercises and case studies using Lean tools. Leaders emerge with a Lean deployment strategy aligned with their own strategic vision. Lean Facility Workow Assessment Workow is like blood ow when its restricted, the system suffers. Using Lean principles, GE helps customers create ows that work for everyone: patients, families and staff. For existing departments, we make suggestions you can implement today. For tomorrows facilities, we go beyond traditional methods like adjacency ratings. Instead, we analyze your unique patient ows, your challenges, your case mix. We recommend leaner, simpler care environments. Because Lean processes let you spend more time caring for patients and less time worrying about how. The improvements made this week have made the radiologists lives so much easier. We can focus on our readings instead of importing images and tracking down les. - Chief Radiologist For more information, contact GE Healthcares Performance Solutions group: Toll free: 888-436-4170 Email: geconsulting@med.ge.com Web: gehealthcare.com/solutions

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