LEAN: Change in Saskatchewan

Janet HardingDirector, Pharmacy ServicesSaskatoon Health RegionJune 2013janet.harding@saskatoonhealthregion.ca

Dan Florizone, Deputy Minister of HealthDetermined to bring Better Health, Better Care and Better Value to Saskatchewan residents  

Reduce waste and improve quality and overall system performance by long term changes in behaviour

• Lean principles profoundly enhance patient satisfaction and safety, quality, efficiency and profitability• Improve clinical outcomes by firmly establishing the necessary organizational infrastructure necessary for long term results

John Black

SASKATCHEWAN LEAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

1. Support the strategic alignment of health system priorities across the province

2. Boost health human resource capacity and capabilities related to quality improvement (skills, dedicate resources, leadership commitment)

3. Foster a culture of safety with the goal of zero defects

4. Establish a cascading measurement and reporting system to support greater system transparency and accountability

Saskatchewan Lean Management System

1. Establish organization and infrastructure2. Set direction3. System leaders4. Educate organization in basics5. Make rapid improvements6. Implement management system7. Visibility and accountability

Hoshin Kanri

• Identifying a common vision;• Setting short- and long-term goals;• Tracking progress toward those goals; and, • Changing course as required.

Hoshin Kanri

Diagnosis & Review

Managers with staffDirectors with ManagersVPs with Directors Reflectio

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Strategy Developm

ent

Provincial Leadership Team

Catchball

Vice PresidentsDirectors

Finalize the Plan

Provincial Leadership Team

Finalize Region

Plan

Deploy Plans

Vice PresidentsDirectorsManagers

Is an annual learning cycle of review, adjust, implement and learn (aka PDSA)

Lean Leaders

• A way of thinking about value• Change management to promote

behaviours with employees that are conducive to improvement• “Too often management doesn’t get

involved. They think they can pass it off to someone else – they see it as just those tools”

LEAN Leader CertificationOver 4 years, 800 Saskatchewan health system leaders will receive in depth Lean training

55 days over a period of 18 months• 11 days of classroom learning / seminars• 3 Books, 10 modules• Quizzes / Presentations

• 8 days of learning and implementing improvement as part of North American tours• Virginia Mason, Seattle Children’s and AutoLiv

• 36 days in rapid process improvement• Ongoing file, Report card

Lean Depth Study

• Assess the SHR structure and leadership based on value added criteria

• Create a health system around service lines rather than functional silos while ensuring that SHR’s structure is as flat as possible to ensure decisions are made as close to the point of care and service possible

• To develop leaders to lead in a lean organization today and into the future

• In depth evaluation of both job functions and leadership skills throughout the organizational chart

Leadership Maturity

1. Patient First• Focus on patient safety• Focus on value add for

patients

2. Leads Self• Demonstrates character

and values• Manages self• Develops others

3. Engages Others• Succession planning• Communication

4. Achieves Results• Financial stewardship• Accountability and

performance management

5. Develops Coalitions• Teams• Influence

6. System Transformation• Lean training• Lean modeling• Daily management• Champions and leads

change

RPIW

A team of people fully engaged in a rigorous and disciplined 5-day process using the tools of LEAN to achieve immediate results in quality, safety and efficiency.

Greater than 500 staff participated in RPIWs to advance improvement efforts in 2012 2013

Zero Defects

Mistake Proofing• Examines the root causes for mistakes and aims to

prevent them before they create defects (harm to our patients)

• Takes place over 5 months: one month of data collection, a trip to Virginia Mason to learn how to mistake proof processes, and 4 months to implement solutions through Plan, Do, Check, Act

Stop the Line• Anyone can recognize that there is a potential for

harm or injury and can signal their concern• STOP and RESPOND

VISUAL MANAGEMENT

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PerformanceMetrics

Gemba Walk

Daily Visual Management

Visual Management• Tell at a glance what and how you are doing• Create daily awareness of important areas, e.g.

safety concerns,• Timely information, • Ensure nothing important is missed,• Make it easier to prioritize work,• Prevent people from reacting to every little thing,• Enable synchronization of work,• The abnormal becomes visual → Allow rapid

resolution of conflicts and issues• Enables the manager to act proactively → Less

firefighting• ‘The pulse of the unit’

What you cannot see, you cannot manage!

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Questions to ask your staff…1. What primary or support process are you part

of?• What is the purpose of this process?

2. How does your process create value for patients/clients/residents?

3. Who is your customer and supplier and what is the feedback process?

4. What is the rock in your shoe? What about your daily work keeps you up at night?

5. What are the safety risks for patients/clients/residents and staff?

6. How do you know when you are doing well? • If you came back from holiday, what would

you want to see on the wall to know the health of the process?

7. How do you know when things are not running the way they should be? 18

The Power of the Huddle

“In a rapidly changing environment, it is vital that team members frequently resynchronize their efforts, coordinate, communicate, and flexibly adapt to current situation.“

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Visual Management

“A visibility wall without gemba walks is just wall paper”

“A gemba walk without a visibility wall is just a social visit”

‘Shaking hands and kissing babies’

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Gemba

• What IS your job?• What are you trying to accomplish

today?• How do you know if you are doing

this work correctly?• What do you do if you have a

problem?• What improvements have you

made lately?

Gemba

• Respect to the people who do the value creating work• Look for signs of disrespect toward

workers, especially overburden• Look for signs of disrespect toward

customers, poor quality or poor delivery• Steadily take away each and every

bit of non value creating “work”

What If My Employees:• Don’t have any ideas?• Have bad ideas?• Just ask me to buy stuff instead of fixing

processes?• Have selfish ideas?• Come up with sub-optimizing ideas?• Come up with ideas that violate rules or

regulations?

Mark Graban Lean blog March 21, 2013

CHANGE• A single methodology (to learn)• Visible leadership (on the gemba)• Ongoing communication (more, more , more)• Doing, not just planning (it may not be right the first time)• Resource improvement efforts (can get things done when it comes to you)• Expect surprises (enthusiasm and resistance)• Measure change management and hold people accountable (uncomfortable at times)