Click here to hear Naida Grunden’s December 1 interview with NPR’s Pittsburgh station. Scroll to ‘Toyota Healthcare’ and click LISTEN

The secret is out! We know how to improve the quality, safety, efficiency and cost of American health care. In our country’s “can-do” tradition, a small Pittsburgh nonprofit persuaded regional hospitals to experiment with ideas from the world’s most efficient company—Toyota.

Applying industrial principles to health care may sound unorthodox but in case after case, the staff of hospital after hospital produced dramatic, sustained improvements.

The news gets better: these techniques can be taught…and learned.

Naida Grunden’s book, The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Applying Toyota-based Improvements to Healthcare, details the practical applications of the industrial techniques that have improved quality, safety, efficiency and the bottom line in real hospitals.

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Praise for The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare

Every person who cares about modernizing health in America should read this book. If we could understand the Toyota system in health, we would save thousands of lives and billions of dollars.
Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives; Founder, Center for Health Transformation

Who should read this book? This book should be read by everyone, up and down the line, involved in improving the quality and safety of patient care in our country. This book will enlighten classroom conversation in schools of medicine, nursing, public health, and health administration.
David Nash, MD, MBA, Professor and Chairman, Department of Health Policy, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University

…Grunden describes the successes and challenges with insight and passion… The Pittsburgh experiment revolutionized healthcare…chock full of pearls, useful tools and inspiring stories.
Robert M. Wachter, MD, Associate Chair, Dept of Medicine, UCSF, Co-Author Internal Bleeding

I love this book!
Cindy Jimmerson, RN, Lean Healthcare West

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