Proven strategies for applying Lean Six Sigma to the healthcare industry and getting practical, sustainable results in as few as five days Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals explains how to use tested LSS methods and tools to achieve the goals of better, faster, and cheaper healthcare. These strategies follow the patient from the front door of the hospital or emergency room all the way through discharge examining key aspects of patient flow and quality and also follow the trail of billing and co...

Otis Hale signed up for one last job.He knew the mission was one-way: a colony expedition to a world at the edge of human space, where older settlers would build a foothold the young could one day inherit.At first, it looks like exactly what they were promised: harsh terrain, failing systems, and too much work for too few hands.Then the world starts breaking the rules.The colony begins to uncover signs that this planet is more than a bad bet...

SPEED KILLSNow on Netflix, #5 most watched movie on the site in its first week:Speed Kills, the movie adaptation, screen-credited as based on the True Crime book Speed Kills.John Travolta plays Ben Aronoff, a fictionalized Don Aronow.He built the fastest boats -- for royalty, the rich, spies, smugglers, Feds and a former U.S. President. Then came six shots.Don Aronow's Cigarette boat...

FLOWERS FOR MRS. LUSKIN: The divorce was vicious, but at least it hadn't turned deadly. Then came the flowers.At the best house in the best neighborhood in Hollywood, Florida, Marie Luskin answered her front door and saw a deliveryman holding a floral arrangement. From behind the leaves and petals he pulled out a pistol and pointed it at her. At the time, she was embroiled in the biggest divorce in the county's history.But why didn't the gunman sho...

A Millionaire Has An Affair. His Wife Throws Him Out. She Gets The Mansion, The Business, The Cash. His Parents' Business. His Parents' Cash. She Gets Shot And Doesn't Know It. The Bullet Disappears. He Goes To Prison. His Parents Flee The Country. He Weds The Other Woman Behind Bars. Has There Ever Been A Case Like This?--The Miami Herald, Tropic MagazineFLOWERS FOR MRS. LUSKIN begins with a flower delivery to the best house in th...

UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT begins with a night 911 call from a woman gasping her last breaths. When police arrived at the house they found her dead, stabbed, and her husband, infant, and father-in-law all shot point-blank. They would survive.Minutes later, a man also called 911, a gunman had released him from a robbery at the same house. He said he knew of no violence before he left. Yet he was the only one who the gunman hadn't tried to kill. Police instantly suspected...

Simple Steps to Improve Patient Safety, Patient Flow and the Bottom LineA Doody's Core Title for 2021!This thoroughly revised resource shows, step-by-step, how to simplify, streamline, analyze, and optimize healthcare performance using tested Lean Six Sigma and change management techniques. Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals, Second Edition, follows the patient from the front door of the hospital or emergency room all the way th...

Your LEAN and mean guide to Lean Six SigmaReady to implement better, faster, cheaper, more-profitable processes in your organization? Lean Six Sigma Demystified, Second Edition, shows you how to use proven techniques for simplifying, streamlining, and optimizing business practices for maximum productivity and profitability.Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide covers the fundamental methods and tools of Lean Six Sigma. You'll get details on reduc...

Now on Netflix, #5 most watched movie on the site in its first week:Speed Kills, the movie adaptation, screen-credited as based on the True Crime book Speed Kills.John Travolta plays Ben Aronoff, a fictionalized Don Aronow.Everybody liked and loved Don Aronow. He was powerboating's favorite, best-known, and most flamboyant racer and boat builder, the brilliant creator and designer of the famous Cigarette go-fast boa...

Another hitch: missing autopsyThe Walsh case was hampered by various problems, including a missing autopsy report and a glitch in identifying the remains.-- The Miami Herald, March 28, 2010From The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh, Book One:***The Adam Walsh story you know:***After 6-year-old Adam was found murdered, his father, John Walsh, channeled his unbearable grief into becoming an angry crime-fighting TV host.

A 2018 documentary about the story in the book UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT aired on TRUE CONVICTION on INVESTIGATIVE DISCOVERYThe prosecutor was no longer sure both murder defendants were guilty. So he asked his dad -- the real-life Kojak.A mother's dying, gasping call to 911: "My husband! My baby!" In her secluded ranch house, she'd been stabbed with a kitchen knife. Her husband, infant and elderly father-in-law had all been shot in the head, p...

Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America's greatest patriots and political theorists were created during a critical moment in our nation's history, providing readers with a running ideological commentar...