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Dr. Margaret Balfour Lean in Psychiatric Care
FromLean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
Dr. Margaret Balfour Lean in Psychiatric Care
FromLean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Jul 19, 2017
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Podcast episode
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My guest today for episode #284 of the podcast is Dr. Margaret (Margie) Balfour, the lead author of an article, published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, titled "Using Lean to Rapidly and Sustainably Transform a Behavioral Health Crisis Program: Impact on Throughput and Safety." Today, we're talking about that article, the important improvement work that led to it, and her belief, as stated in the article that "Lean methods can positively affect safety and throughput and are complementary to patient-centered clinical goals in a behavioral health setting." Dr. Balfour is the VP for Clinical Innovation and Quality at Connections Health Solutions, one of the largest providers of psychiatric emergency care in Arizona, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona. Dr. Balfour received her MD and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Cincinnati and completed residency and a fellowship in Public and Community Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. A link to the article can be found at http://www.leanblog.org/284
Released:
Jul 19, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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