Lean Blog Audio — Throwback Thursday: Creating the New American Hospital

Today’s Throwback Thursday is a look back at a 1993 book that I purchased in 2011 on somebody’s recommendation. It was probably one of those used books you can buy for a penny on Amazon… Creating the New American Hospital: A Time for Greatness. It’s indeed available for a penny today.I had flipped through the book at the time as it was interesting to me to get more context on how hospitals are not just suddenly in crisis (financial or otherwise) in recent years.

Book-NAHChapter 1 of the book is titled “Why Hospitals Fail.” The author says, “Clearly, something isn’t working.”

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