Your hospital is full of talented, hardworking people -- and broken processes.
Lean Hospitals shows you how to see what's been invisible: the waiting, the workarounds, the waste baked into how care gets delivered every day. Not by asking people to work harder or be more careful -- but by redesigning the system itself, starting with the people who do the work.
Written for healthcare executives, managers, physicians, and frontline leaders, Lean Hospitals translates Toyota Production System principles into language any healthcare professional can act on -- with real examples from hospitals that have reduced patient harm, cut waiting times, eliminated millions in waste, and rebuilt staff engagement in the process.
"Mark Graban... has worked hard to study the philosophy and stay true to the thinking of Toyota. His book is a welcome translation of the Toyota Production System into language any health care professional can understand.”
- Jeffrey K. Liker
Author of the Toyota Way series
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Recommended by Healthcare Leaders Who've Led Real Change
"Mark Graban is the consummate translator of the vernacular of the Toyota Production System into the everyday parlance of health care. With each concept and its application, the reader is challenged to consider what is truly possible in the delivery of health care if only standardized systems borrowed from reliable industries, were implemented. Graban provides those trade secrets in an understandable and transparent fashion." - Dr. Richard Shannon
