How Lean management can slash hospital construction costs.
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Four years ago, the leaders of Akron (Ohio) Children’s Hospital faced a pressing question as they began planning a new facility to house their neonatal intensive-care unit, outpatient surgery and other growing service lines. The hospital had been using Lean Six Sigma process-improvement methods to boost quality and reduce waste