Labor Productivity and Lean Design

Compass Clinical Consulting uses lean process control to leverage activities as a systematic labor cost management process that addresses “internal customer” needs and lets these needs pull the next process action forward. We focus on eliminating process steps that do not add value to take cost out of every department. A lean and efficient hospital is a better hospital that benefits everyone.

Get the team right – no one person knows enough to make a hospital work effectively and efficiently.
Get the metrics right – Know how you will track the metrics. Keep lean hospital cost productivity simple.
Solve the right hospital productivity problems.
Develop the lean hospital productivity solution in stages, each of which can be developed quickly. If it’s not working, stop or change direction before the potential loss is great, and evaluate alternatives that can work.
Move the best hospital cost productivity options forward and discard those that don’t make the cut.
Test each hospital productivity stage, before moving to the next.
Communicate openly and often with the internal team to make sure listening is part of the continuous process.
Eliminate any error that may have crept into the hospital productivity program.
The end customer or user of each hospital productivity process pulls activities with it, based on signals from the customer.
Launch specific next steps in the hospital productivity plan.
Map hospital productivity all out in totality, but again, develop in stages. Keep it simple.
Develop those response actions that are needed earliest to achieve hospital labor productivity.

Call Shawna O’Neill or Eric Dam about Hospital Labor Cost Productivity at (513) 241.0142

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