Mount Sinai Health System, Healthcare Association of New York State and Hospital Innovation and Lean Network of New York to Host Conference: “Lean and Innovation in a COVID-19 World”
Virtual conference will highlight Lean innovations that have helped healthcare organizations plan for, manage and mitigate many aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic
Mount Sinai Health System will join the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) and the Hospital Innovation and Lean Network of New York (HILNNY) in co-hosting the seventh annual HILNNY conference Lean and Innovation in a COVID-19 World on October 22-23, 2020. Healthcare leaders from medical centers across New York and beyond are expected to attend the virtual conference.
This year’s conference will explore how Lean and innovation have been used during the COVID-19 pandemic and how healthcare organizations are leveraging them to redesign and rethink their processes for a post-COVID-19 world.
Several Mount Sinai leaders will be among the 31 speakers presenting at this year’s conference. John Shook, Chairman of the Lean Global Network and Senior Advisor of the Lean Enterprise Institute, will give the keynote address: “Lean Thinking and Innovation during Crises.” Mount Sinai experts will present “The Mount Sinai COVID-19 Experience” and “Bring it to the Lean Lab: How Mount Sinai Morningside Lead Team Supported Rapid PDCA during the COVID-19 Crisis.”
To register, visit hanys.org/events/hilnny. Registration is open until Oct. 21.
Topics include:
- Inpatient eConsults Address Increased Consultation Demand and PPE Preservation During COVID-19 Surge
- Achieving Triple Time in a COVID-19 World
- Bed Flow Optimization: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
- COVID-19 Telehealth Innovation: Accessible Lean Processes for Patient and Clinician Safety
- The Mount Sinai COVID-19 Experience
- Bring it to the Lean Lab: How Mount Sinai Morningside Lean Team Supported Rapid PDCA During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Implementing a Four-tiered Huddle Structure with Cascading A3s Utilizing Virtual and Physical Boards
- Implementation of Critical Illness Recovery Program as a Collaborative Effort to Improve Discharge Outcomes for Individuals with COVID-19 Associated Critical Illness
- Efficient Delivery of Medication for Chronic Conditions: A Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
- Reprocessing N95 Masks with UV Light
About the Healthcare Association of New York State
The Healthcare Association of New York State, the statewide hospital and continuing care association in New York, represents nonprofit and public hospitals, nursing homes, home care agencies and other healthcare organizations. HANYS is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to advance the health of individuals and communities by providing leadership, representation and service to healthcare providers and systems across the entire continuum of care.
About the Hospital Innovation and Lean Network of New York
HILNNY is a collaborative network that brings together Lean and innovation practitioners in hospitals and healthcare facilities across New York state to enhance learning and further the development of organizations' work in innovation, process improvement and change management.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. The Health System includes approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, a school of nursing, and schools of medicine and graduate school of biomedical sciences.
As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.
Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York and recognized as one of the world’s top Smart Hospital by Newsweek. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.
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