Hospital Command Centers: Keep What's Best and Improve the Rest
Hospital Command Centers: Keep What's Best and Improve the Rest
May 6, 2021

Your Crisis Operations System Works Because It Breaks Through What Doesn’t Work in Normal Operations. Now Make It Sustai...

The Value Capture Team Reflects on Paul O’Neill, Sr.
The Value Capture Team Reflects on Paul O’Neill, Sr.
April 23, 2021

April 18, 2021 marked the first year since cancer took Paul O’Neill, Sr. The Value Capture team came together the Friday...

Healthcare Workplace Safety and the Biden Labor Department
Healthcare Workplace Safety and the Biden Labor Department
March 31, 2021

Why I am Happy with Biden’s Choice for Labor Secretary, Marty Walsh First, as a proud Boston native, I’m pleased to see ...

The Newest Findings from CLEAR on Lean Management and Hospital Performance
The Newest Findings from CLEAR on Lean Management and Hospital Performance
March 19, 2021

(See April 27, 2021 press release from The Joint Commission on this study). “In the United States, the triple aim of imp...

Patient Safety Awareness Week - March 14-20, 2021
Patient Safety Awareness Week - March 14-20, 2021
March 15, 2021

Safety - for patients, workers, visitors, for all - has always been the driving focus of Value Capture's work. We believ...

Nate Hurle on the Covid Vaccination Process at Cleveland Clinic
Nate Hurle on the Covid Vaccination Process at Cleveland Clinic
March 11, 2021

This week, I released an hour-long podcast with Nate Hurle, a Senior Director of Enterprise Continuous Improvement at Cl...

Learning Your Way to Perfection
Learning Your Way to Perfection
February 26, 2021

In order to seek perfection, intentional systems and safety must both exist, and when they do, that’s when you’ll be exc...

Seek Perfection - A Shingo Guiding Principle for Continuous Improvement
Seek Perfection - A Shingo Guiding Principle for Continuous Improvement
February 19, 2021

Ice Fishing and Seeking Perfection Recently I was out enjoying a hobby of mine in my home state of Wisconsin. I was ice ...

Encouraging Vaccinating Organizations to See, Solve, and Share Process Problems
Encouraging Vaccinating Organizations to See, Solve, and Share Process Problems
February 10, 2021

At Value Capture, we help our clients establish systems that help everybody in an organization to see problems, solve pr...

Improvement Opportunities in the COVID Vaccination Processes
Improvement Opportunities in the COVID Vaccination Processes
February 5, 2021

Health department officials, healthcare providers (current and retired), pharmacists, medical students, EMT’s, and many ...