Lean Healthcare Event on December 1, 2009
Improve the Patient Experience... Increase access to care... Achieve better clinical outcomes... Emphasize work-life balance for healthcare workers... Reduce costs for providers and patients.
Join us on Tuesday, December 1 from 3:30pm - 5:30pm at VIBCO Vibrators headquarters in Richmond, RI to see how manufacturing principles can improve healthcare. The event includes a plant tour and honest discussion of Lean Healthcare's potential. Register Now
Amidst the passion surrounding the healthcare reform debate and so much focus on the "big picture", it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the most impactful solutions and greatest gains will not come from Washington, D.C. They will come from you... from us... from a healthcare community that cares deeply about patients and desperately wants to improve access to services and better outcomes for all.
The answer is simple. We must eliminate waste. We must continually shrink the percentage of non-value-added activities and create better, more usable processes that enable caregivers to focus on the real work of providing the highest quality care possible.
Learn more... register for the December 1st meeting now.
ABOUT VIBCO (your host)
Founded in 1962, VIBCO Vibrators designs, manufacturers and markets a comprehensive range of electric, pneumatic and hydraulic vibrators for construction and industrial use. VIBCO Vibrators also designs, manufactures and markets a complete line of vibratory plate compactors and rollers. VIBCO trains its entire workforce in lean methodologies and is actively identifying and eliminating waste through improvement projects. All facets of the organization are affected: machining, assembly, shipping and receiving, marketing, sales, customer service, engineering, purchasing, finance and supply chain.
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ABOUT LEAN
It is a methodology born in manufacturing and based on the Toyota Production System. For nearly 50 years, this holistic business system has a consistent track record of improving job satisfaction, customer experience, quality, and reducing costs simultaneously. To be clear, Lean is about improving processes by unlocking the creative and problem-solving genius of the people who do the work. It is not about reducing staffing or cutting programs.
Lean focuses on creating a physical work environment where abnormalities (waste) stand out immediately and very visibly. This visibility, along with a bias for action, scientific problem saving capability and a handful of powerful principles, systems and tools, enables the entire organization to relentlessly identify and act on opportunities to permanently reduce waste. Everything is done in the context of improving the customer (patient) experience while making the job of doing that easier with lower costs. This will be an eye-opening two hour session. Register now.
