“As the political debate about how to pay for and pass health reform grows louder and more contentious, we shouldn’t lose sight of the reason we’re even having this conversation: We have a huge, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to improve the lives of all Americans…”
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
The Washington Post 8/4/09
Forward thinking healthcare executives are seizing this opportunity to proactively seek out and eliminate waste in inefficient processes and apply proven methodologies to implement sustainable improvement in all areas of their organizations. They are emerging stronger to combat not only the current financial challenges but they are meeting their community and fiduciary responsibilities to provide the highest quality care in the most efficient and cost effective manner possible. Even organizations that have dedicated internal resources are looking to supplement their resources to realize improvement faster.
The current reform is a tremendous opportunity for you as a leader in your market by implementing sustainable improvement in a specific area or across your organization.
RWD has worked with leading hospitals to implement Lean solutions, and our clients have seen measurable improvements:
