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1Improving Patient Flow in the Emergency Department
By Tina Dauzat
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ED Lean Project Overview2
GoalImprove ED patient throughput in a rural community hospital
BackgroundRecent $10M renovation of ED to update facility and increase capacity to 25 ED beds
Volume120-170 ED patients/day
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How long do
YOUexpect to wait before being
seen in the ER?
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54 minutes
Patients were waiting 54 minuteson average to be seen and taken to a bed
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Welcome to theER, how can wehelp you today?
Goal:
Turn ED waiting room into a Greeting room
Goal:
Turn ED waiting room into a Greeting room
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Lean event was held to reduce
patient wait times
Future State
Value Stream
Map
Lean Event
May 2009
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Actions Taken7
� Move desk to lobby
� Staff desk with RN and clerk
� Perform triage and bed placement from lobby
� Perform registration at the bedside
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Arrival to Bed Time
Improved by 72%8
72%
improvement
Avg 54 min
Avg 15 min
lean event
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What are benefits of improving
arrival to bed wait time?
Your ideas?
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Arrival to Physician Greet Time
Improved by 52%10
52%
improvement
Avg 67 min
Avg 32 min
lean event
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What are the benefits of improving
bed to greet time?
Your ideas?
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That’s good, but . . .
We still have some work to do12
Pre Lean Event Post Lean Event
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People are still waiting, but now they are waiting in beds and hallways
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Back to the
Drawing Board
Opportunity Statement:
Provide a high quality patient experience in a consistent, timely manner, while continually minimizing waste and effort, from the time the patient is placed in the bed until disposition in the ED
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Interviewed Key Staff and Observed Work
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Planned 3 Day Lean Event
Time Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
8:00 Introductions & CEO Address
8:30 Scope/Metrics
9:00
9:30
10:00 15 m Break/Q&A
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch
12:30 Project Suggestions and Report
1:00
1:30
2:00 15 m Break/ CSM revision
2:30
3:30
4:00 Report Out Report Out
4:30 Follow-up from Report Out Follow-up from Report Out
5:00 Parking Lot, Wed Pre-work Follow-up from Report Out
6:30
7:30
8:30 Parking Lot, Thurs pre-work
Who:
Team members, O level for
report out, ED Directors, Brett,
Mary, MG
Team members, O level for report
out, ED Directors, Brett, Mary, MG
Team members, O level for
report out, ED Directors, Brett,
Mary, MG
(Dinner) OBS in Lab/Img/Pharm
Future State Map
Validate FSM in ED
Pilot changes in ED/Lab/Pharm
Countermeasures Accountability
Report Out
CSM Validation (in ED)
Prep for Report Out
Modified Team Stepps
VSM Validation (in ED)
VSM Validation (in ED)
Consolidation of VSM
A3-Tool Kit
Current State Map
3-Day Lean Agenda
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Another lean event was held to reduce
greet to dispo wait times
Team
Members
Lean Event
Sept 2010
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Got Waste?
Motion Moving charts between desks
Rework Unable to collect acceptable blood sample
Rework Unlabeled specimens
Waiting Unable to collect urine sample
Over Production Re-stick patient multiple times due to hard stick
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Only 24% of the current state process were considered value added tasks
76% of tasks fell into the non-valued added categories (waste)
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Guided Teams inDevelopingFuture State
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Value-Added %Current State 24%Future State 74%
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Current Struggles
� Volume arrival
� ED max capacity and
Hospital max capacity
� Acuity levels vary
� Provider process
varies
� Communication to
ancillary depts.
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Implementing Change23
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Empty Waiting Rooms
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Speedy Assessment
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Patient Centric
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Fast AccurateTreatment
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How does that sound?
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Start Small