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their own, the individual Lean Healthcare concepts and tools will
provide certain measurable benefits, but it is the combination of them
and their systematic implementation that will lead to more dramatic
gains. Successful Lean implementation requires commitment and
involvement across all levels as an organization-wide change
initiative.
The first step to any Lean Healthcare initiative
is to gain top management support. Effective communication of Lean
Thinking throughout the organization is seen as a vital ingredient in
its successful implementation. This has to begin at Senior Management
level in any organization. Management must appreciate and understand
the financial opportunity and long-term business benefits of converting
from traditional ways of doing business to a streamlined Lean approach.
It is imperative to educate and train core staff in Lean Thinking, and
to appoint a number of internal Lean Champions to drive improvements
across the organization’s core healthcare processes.
Without significant change in how a healthcare
facility organizes and arranges the way that it works, any piece meal
change will do little more than maintain the status quo. The maxim
should be that every process can be improved and, even if you think
‘it isn’t broke’, fix it anyway.
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