Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award

America s healthcare system needs to change. Not only does our country spend 16 percent of its gross domestic product on healthcare, but despite spending more than other industrialized countries, our general health lags behind. While we have plenty of data identifying where healthcare in America falls short, we ve precious little practical, hands-on information about how to fix it.

In The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare, Naida Grunden provides a ingenious and optimistic look...

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...