Lean & Collaborative Care at ThedaCare
Author: Dunn, Lindsey
This article features Lean thinking and how that led to the design of the Collaborative Care model at ThedaCare.
The six "best practices" elements listed in the article are:
- Collaborative rounding upon admission
- Evidence-based plans of care
- Nurse as manager of care
- Tollgates
- Electronic Medical Record
- Purposeful design of physical space
The article includes a number of comments from Kathryn Correia, senior vice president of ThedaCare and president of Appleton Medical Center and ThedaClark Medical Center in Neenah, Wisconsin.
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