Lean-Led Hospital Design

Appendix D: Voices from the Field

Doctors, nurses, engineers, pilots, scientists, architects—Lean healthcare practitioners emerge from many disciplines, equally committed to changing and improving the way American healthcare is delivered. The vision unites them, as does their commonsense approach of Lean thinking.

Only infrequently does the general public hear from Lean practitioners, who work in one hospital and then another in the interest of teaching and learning new and better ways to work. This collection of short essays compiles some of the ...