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The work of the Healthcare Performance Group has been
reported in local, state and national news media. Below is a sampling of the articles that have
been published.
- Process Improvement in
Georgia's Rural Hospitals – Quality Digest:
Georgia
rural hospitals that
face growing financial pressures are receiving assistance from a new
Georgia Institute of Technology pilot project that is helping them improve
processes and reduce waste. Supported by the Healthcare Georgia Foundation, the initiative will
help the seven rural hospitals increase capacity, improve service quality
and cut costs.
Read full story
- Leaning Towards Efficiency: A Georgia
Medical Center Introduces Lean Processes to Streamline Workflow – Health Management Technology: At
Meadows Regional Medical Center in Vidalia, Ga., it is my goal as CEO to
have our employees think about our business holistically rather than just
focus on doing their jobs in silos. In so doing, I believe we can increase patient satisfaction, reduce
costs and decrease the opportunity for errors.
Read full story
- Lean Helps Facility Slim Down on
Inefficiency – Healthcare
Finance News: Do process management approaches that work in other
industries have an impact in a healthcare environment?
Meadows
Regional
Medical
Center
has become a believer. Making use
of an innovative program from the Enterprise Innovation Institute of
Georgia Tech, the rural hospital achieved gains in efficiency and savings
in its emergency department.
Read
full story
- Getting the Staff’s Buy-in for Lean – OR Manager: Staff participation is critical to the success of process improvement projects in the healthcare industry. When Piedmont Newnan Hospital began working with Georgia Tech to improve performance in its operating rooms, reassuring staff and providing a charge number for their time were key considerations.
Read full story (posted with permission)
- Leaner, but Not Meaner – Workforce Management: The origins
of lean manufacturing lie in heavy industry. Automaker
Toyota is a pioneer. But as the concept of teaching
industrial workers to methodically improve efficiency bears fruit,
companies in other sectors are taking note. That includes
Meadows
Regional
Medical
Center, an 87-bed hospital in
rural
Vidalia,
Georgia
.
Read full story
- How
One
Hospital
Slashed ED Waits – Hospitals
& Health Networks: It's
somewhat ironic that patients coming to an emergency department expect to
wait for hours on end before being seen by a nurse or physician. They expect to get caught in a
bureaucratic maze in which they are asked for the same health information
multiple times by multiple people.
"It's not the level of service we should expect,” says Alan Kent,
president and CEO of Meadows Regional Medical Center,
Vidalia,
Ga.
Read full story
- Georgia Tech Helping Hospitals Gain
Efficiency – Atlanta Business
Chronicle: After years of helping businesses become more efficient,
experts from Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute are bringing
their talents to hospitals. The
Institute helps organizations improve their competitiveness by using
science, technology and innovation.
Read full story
- ED Team Goes"Back to School” – ED Management: Before it could
successfully implement a lean process change that it calls TAPP (Team
Assessment Pull Process), the ED leadership in the Children's Healthcare
of Atlanta system had to be educated in the process. The need for this education was clear,
recalls Marianne Hatfield, RN, BSN, CENP, system director of emergency
services. (March 2008 issue; pages
32-33).
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