Lean laboratory project brings $248,000 in annual savings to Arkansas Children’s Hospital, together with faster turnaround time and $85,000 in construction avoidance

Hospital Emergency Department cuts patient turnaround time by 29%, saves $1.25 million in avoided construction costs

OR at Baptist Medical Center uses Lean to achieve $578,000 in annual savings, increases caseload capacity by 17% without adding staff

Christchurch Hospital uses Lean to cut scrub nurse setup time by 45%, reduces late starts by 14%, saves NZ$124,944 on inventory

Immediate response lab speeds response by 53%, and improves productivity by 250%

Florida Hospital Emergency Department uses Lean to cut door-to-provider time by 58%; rate of patients leaving without seeing a doctor falls from16% to as low as 1.5%

Lab’s first Lean project improves turnaround time by 35-49%, allows it to add $250,000 of revenue with 4 fewer FTEs

Emergency Department at Kettering Medical Center uses Lean to reduce length of stay by 18-25%

Diagnostic Imaging at Kingston General Hospital uses Lean to improve report turnaround time by 42% to 82%, adds 16 more CT scans to the day.

Lean design helps Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center avoid $4.8million in construction costs, cut laboratory labor costs by $156,000/yr.

Children’s hospital improves testing turnaround time by 27-56%, realizes more than $290,000 in savings

Pharmacy at Memorial Health University Medical Center uses Lean to gain efficiency, increase productivity, improve space utilization, and reduce inventory.

Lean design helps Mercy Medical Center improve laboratory workflow, increases available office and storage space

Achieving Process Excellence in Healthcare at the Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa

OR uses Lean to achieve $180,000 in projected annual savings, eliminates $50,000 in excess inventory

Mills-Peninsula uses Lean to dramatically improve ED testing turnaround time, achieves $20,000 in annual inventory savings

Pharmacy at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center uses Lean to save $167,828 worth of nursing time and inventory, avoids $44,000 in construction costs

Mexico’s largest laboratory uses Lean to cut turnaround time by as much as 50%, increase productivity by 18%, trim $241,000 from standing inventory.

Providence Health Care Anatomic Pathology Lab cuts average turnaround time from four days to three

For Riverside Medical Center, “Lean is not just about better ROI; it’s actually fundamentally about better patient care.”

Hospital lab saves $414,000/year, cuts turnaround time by 46%

TriCore Reference Laboratories uses Lean to cut cycle time by as much as 70%

Washington Hospital Center Lean initiative yields 78-88% reduction in tests exceeding turnaround goals, eliminates need for $1million – $1.5million upgrade

West Tennessee Healthcare combines Lean and Six Sigma to save $4.99 million over a three-year period