Meritus Health will be hosting the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) on March 6th 2018. Please use the link below to know more about the event and register. http://www.ame.org/event/improvement-kata  

This month, Sara Abshari and Eileen Jaskuta presented to a packed room this month at the AME conference, the largest lean conference in the world! The theme this year was "Get Engaged."  Furthermore, Roxanne Rosendale and her team from the 5 East Med/Surg/Palliative care unit were highlighted in an article by Mark Rosenthal in the Fall issue of AME's Target magazine. Summary of the learning session from AME's website:  Hear about Meritus' six-year journey and how its approach evolved t...

Hanover Hospital will be hosting the next Lean Healthcare Consortia meeting scheduled for Thursday, November 2nd, starting at 8:30 am.  Please see tentative topics and agenda below. Topics: Bringing ED soiled and clean utility areas into JCAHO compliance: A Kata Across Departments- Alison Brennan (Kata Coach), Dawn Olsen (Director CSS), Tara Slagle (Manager ED), Lisa Docimo (Clinical Leader ED) Central Sterile Processing: Reducing work in progress at the end of shifts- Dawn Olson (Di...

In late June 2017, Meritus hospital hosted their 5th annual lean celebration. All staff involved in process improvement and Kata were invited to share their stories by creating poster boards to showcase the transformational work they have accomplished. Almost 30 departments (inpatient and outpatient) attended and presented their Kata work impacting all aspects of the organizational strategic goals. The lean celebration is a time for staff to shine and be recognized for their hard work throughout...

July 7, 2017 8:30am – 1:00pmSystem Support Building Conference Rooms 6 & 7 220 Campus Boulevard Winchester, VA 22601Agenda I. Breakfast & Networking 8:30 am to 9:00 amII. Welcome 9:00 am to 9:15 am Jim Carty, Director of Management Engineering   a. Opening Remarks   b. IntroductionsIII. LEAN Facilitator Recognition 9:15 am to 9:30 amIV. Valley Health LEAN Classes 9:30 am to 10:15 am LEAN Management Engineers   a. Ball SimulationV. Break 10:15 am to 10:30 amVI. EBAM 10:30 am to 10:4...

The following was submitted by Mark Rosenthal at TheLeanThinker.com. We at Meritus are excited share what we have learned, and learn how to improve our approach in 2017. Hopefully a few of the mid-Atlantic consortia members can join us in San Diego next month! KataCon 2017 Keynote: Joe Ross: January 23, 2017 Mark Rosenthal Health Care, Toyota Kata Last year I nominated Joe Ross, the CEO of Meritus Health in Hagerstown, MD to be a keynote speaker at the 2017 KataCon. I did so beca...

Hello Fellow Lean Leaders!! On behalf of  Summit Health, we invite you to join the Summit Lean Promotion Office for the December Consortia meeting. We'd like to start at 9:00 am. We're hoping you can stay for our lunchtime report out which starts at 12:15 and ends at 1:00 pm.  These report outs are one of the key deliverables and accountability factors helping to embed our Lean processes in every day work. Please let me know what topics of interest you want to discuss. And.. please shar...

There are two types of authority in any enterprise.  There is positional authority, which is formal authority and comes with the job description and title.  Examples are the CEO, CFO, and Chief Imagination Officer titles. Then there is informal authority.  This is the place where organizations really get tasks accomplished as most of the front-to-back work of delivering goods and services occurs. The vision and purpose of the enterprise is actualized at the intersection of these two ty...

Hanover will be hosting the next Consortia meeting scheduled for Friday, October 21st, from 0830 - 1230.  We will hold the meeting at Hanover Hospital, 300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA, 17331, in the A3 Conference Room.  Directions to our facility - http://www.hanoverhospital.org/hh/find-us.aspx.  You will want to enter the Hospital through the main entrance and wait in the Lobby, there is a building map contained in the link, someone will meet you in the Lobby to escort you to the A3 Conference...