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Leveraging Lean in Medical Laboratories
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Leveraging Lean in Medical Laboratories

by Charles Protzman, Joyce Kerpchar, George Mayzell
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
330 pages
13h 59m
English
Productivity Press
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177Putting It All Together
overarching goal is to provide a exible work area and work station designs to be able to adapt to
future needs and provide an environment conducive to continuous improvement.
do We ReaLLy need to add moRe Rooms oR spaCe?
Most hospitals underestimate the need for Lean design. The rst question asked should be if we
really need to add rooms or space. In the pre-Lean environment, the need for additional rooms,
which appear to be required, may, in fact, not be needed once the Lean project is completed.
At Hospital X, we were working on Leaning a laboratory, both core and non-core (Figure 6.17).
The architects were told th ...
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ISBN: 9781482234473