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Lean management helps hospital save $20M without layoffs

Southcoast Health System--a three-hospital system based in New Bedford, Mass.--has saved $20 million since it began implementing Lean Six Sigma in January 2009, the New England Business Bulletin

How lean management helped hospitals avoid layoffs

Despite the common allegation that lean improvement methods, based on the Toyota production system, must lead to layoffs at hospitals or health systems, the reality is quite different at several