CFO Magazine Features Lean in Healthcare
Author: Hyatt, Josh
The article is an overview of how Lean applies in healthcare and what some of the leading organizations are accomplishing with Lean. The article features ThedaCare (including the story of how a manufacturing, Ariens, helped get them started), Denver Health, and Elkhart General Hospital.
Results cited include:
- ThedaCare has reduced "door to balloon" time from 91 minutes to 37 minutes
- Post-cardiac-surgery length of stay was reduced from 6.2 days to 4.8 days at ThedaCare
- Denver Health generated an additional $520,000 since 2007, using Lean to create more capacity
- Denver Health boosted revenue by $2.3 million by improving processes so they billed for all of the care they provided
- Denver Health has reduced costs by a total of $28.6 million
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