Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future

ISBN-13: 9781439868287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 338 str.

Naida Grunden

Opis

Instead of building new hospitals that import old systems and problems, the time has come to reexamine many of our ideas about what a hospital should be. Can a building foster continuous improvement? How can we design it to be flexible and useful well into the future? How can we do more with less? Winner of a 2013 Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence Answering these questions and more, Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future explains how hospitals can be built to increase patient safety and reduce wait times while eliminating waste, lowering costs, and easing some of healthcare's most persistent problems. It supplies a simplified timeline of architectural planning--from start to finish--to guide readers through the various stages of the Lean design development philosophy, including Lean architectural design and Lean work design. It includes examples from several real healthcare facility design and construction projects, as well as interviews with hospital leaders and architects. Check out a video of the authors discussing their book, Lean-Led Hospital Design at the 2012 Med Assets Healthcare Business Summit. www.modernhealthcare.com/section/LiveatHBS

Spis treści

Introduction to Lean-led Hospital Design. The Typical Timeline. Are We Too Late? Are We Too Early? Standardization Creates Flexibility. Learning from the Past to Create Bed Towers of the Future. St. Patrick Medical Center Emergency Room Transformation. Integrated Project Delivery and Lean - Can they Work Together? Lean Goes Viral: An Architecture Firm Takes a Second Look. Appendix. Glossary