Dr. Terry Platchek from Stanford Medicine Children’s Health shares his 14-year journey of lean and improvement in healthcare.
Al Pilong, new Catalysis executive coach, draws on more than 30 years in healthcare to share what it takes to drive lasting transformation.
Paul Kempinski, recently retired former CEO at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, joins us to discuss the importance of coaching and mentorship for executives, reflecting on his 40 plus years of leadership in healthcare.
John Toussaint joins the podcast to help introduce our new CEO - Carlos Scholz. Carlos joins Catalysis with over 20 years of lean leadership experience with over 14 years in healthcare.
Sheri Nakamura - Capability Development Manager and David Franklin, M.A. - Senior Organizational Development Consultant, from Stanford Medicine Children’s Hospital explain their work on Improvement Capability Development as part of the Packard Quality Management System at Stanford Children’s.
Emily Swaney - Sr. Director, Alli Kulp - Sr. Advisor, and Todd Schneider - Sr. Lean Advisor, from the Lean Promotion Office at OhioHealth describe how their small improvement team maximizes what they learn at events for their transformation journey.
Jurriaan de Jong, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Operations and Business Analytics at The Ohio State University explains the value and power of taking improvement students to the gemba at a variety of organizations.
Dr. John Toussaint discusses the impact of electronic health information on care delivery and the possibilities of AI to help providers improve care.
Yazmyne Campos, the Accreditation Manager at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in southern California describes her journey into improvement, quality and accreditation, a path she did not originally envision for herself.
Dorothy Hung, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Lean Engagement & Research (CLEAR) at the University of California – Berkley shares the results from research done on advancing health equity and leader practices. These findings will also be presented in a published paper.
Dr. John Toussaint, Catalysis’ Executive Chairman of the Board and Steve Shortell, Co-Founder of the Center for Lean Engagement and Research (CLEAR) at the University of California – Berkley, follow-up with us on the discussion they started on episode 85 about their article “The Better Care Plan: A Blueprint for Improving America’s Healthcare System” and the coalition workgroups that have started up.
John Toussaint, MD joins us as we celebrate our 100th episode of The Lens and helps us reflect on where we have been and where we hope to go in the future.
Kathryn Correia, President and CEO, Emerita for Legacy Health, joins us to share about how she and her team at Legacy navigated multiple crises in Portland, Oregon during the tumultuous year of 2020.
Emily Jackson, Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Care Services at New York Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital, tells the story of the journey to her current role.
John Boyko, a Director at the Kaizen Promotion Office (KPO) at Washington Hospital Health System in Fremont, California describes how their KPO Team practiced what they preached in reviewing, studying, and adjusting their internal Management System training program.
Sam Nordberg, who serves as the Chief of Integrated Behavioral Health at Reliant Medical Group in Massachusetts, tells us about the platform-based digital Ecosystem they are using to help treat mental health issues.
Carol Shields, the Director of Performance Excellence at Community Health Network in Indiana, explains how their Baldridge award journey has helped the improvement work at Community Health.
Bryan Cutliff, from SA Partners, details the concept and research of self-leadership and its role as an engagement system within organizations.
Julie King, who leads DEI efforts at Advocate Health Care in IL as well as DEI Learning and Education across the national Advocate Health enterprise, joins us to discuss equity in healthcare, as a continuation from the panel at the 2023 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit.
Dr. Erik Mikaitis, Dr. Katie Radigan, Dr. Joe Palter, Jennifer Rozenich, and Andrea Ramel, from Cook County Health in Chicago, describe the process and work they did in the last year to quickly identify and treat sepsis.
