Healthcare Value Network Podcast

#5 - Akron Children's Hospital, Learning from the Best Lean Factories


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Episode #5 is a discussion with two guests from Akron (OH) Children's Hospital and their Center for Operations Excellence, Kris Grayem and Chris Weisbrod. They were part of a Healthcare Value Leaders Network member visit to the company Autoliv, a top automotive supplier, in November. Kris and Chris discuss the important lessons that they learned from visiting a factory as non-factory people - what ideas and concepts did they bring back to their hospital?

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More about our guests:

Kris Grayem is a nurse practitioner in the department of pediatrics and is also the associate director of clinical systems and performance improvement. Christopher Weisbrod is a Lean Six Sigma project leader in 

Episode Host: Mark Graban

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