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

Children’s medical center uses Lean to meet turnaround time goals consistently.

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%

Kingston General Hospital uses Lean to speed surgical instrument sterilization process by 54%

OR department at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center uses Lean to cut unneeded inventory, saves $293,828.

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.

Midland Memorial Hospital uses Lean to speed testing as much as 42%, frees up 5 FTEs and 775 sq. ft. of floor space

Hospital’s Nutritional Services Department uses Lean to reduce a planned expansion by 25%, avoids $7.6 million in construction costs and reassigns 11 FTEs.

San Mateo Clinic of Presbyterian Healthcare Services uses Lean to reduce patient cycle time by 84%, achieves $201,500 in annual labor savings, cuts use of overtime by $34,990

Riverside Medical Center Pharmacy uses Lean to recover workspace, reduce stockouts by 81%.

Hospital lab reduces testing turnaround time by as much as 53%, saves $160,308 a year

Blood center cuts standing inventory by 7%, reduces reliance on expedited supply deliveries.

Victoria General Hospital uses Lean to cut testing turnaround time by 23-42%, achieves $181,332 in labor savings

Hospital lab uses Six Sigma to reduce turnaround time and improve quality