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My facility did an entire VSA on the Central Processing department, including a rapid improvement event on this very topic.  What I found was two fold: 1) we eat away at our savings in healthcare-based Lean initiatives by not reducing the FTE when a workflow improvement decrease the number of worked hours in the department.  If any part ...

One of the side effects of studying supply and equipment shortages is that you often find that you have too little of the things you need and too many of the things you don't.  Reducing the inventory of things that you don't need can result in significant savings.  If you are able to impact first OR start delays and can regularly ...