Efficient processes

Format:
PDF (color and black and white)

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Frontline managers and workers

Best used:
This poster lists 10 ways to eliminate waste. Post on bulletin boards in break rooms and other staff areas.

Format:
PDF (color and black and white)

Size:
8.5” x 11”

Intended audience:
Frontline employees, managers and physicians

Best used:
Hang this poster highlighting a Colorado team's better way to keep track of surgical instruments—and save thousands of dollars—on bulletin boards, in break rooms and other staff areas.

Format:
PowerPoint

Size:
8.5" x 11", three pages

Intended audience:
Department managers, management and union co-leads and UBT sponsors

Best used:
Shows the growth of performance improvement projects, including cost reduction, efficiency and patient safety.

Format:
PPT

Size:
1 Slide

Intended audience:
LMP employees, UBT consultants, improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint slide features a Northwest UBT that saved department money by using an in-house courier to deliver lab specimens rather than a taxi. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente.

Format: 
PDF

Size: 
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience: 
Frontline employees, managers and physicians, and UBT consultants

Best used:
Post this tip sheet in a breakroom, or use it as a starting point for team discussions and brainstorming on how to reduce supply waste.  

See how teams have put these tips to use:

• Lifting Back the Sheet on the Real Cost of Wasting Linens

Format:
PPT

Size:
1 Slide

Intended audience:
LMP employees, UBT consultants, improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint slide features an optical team that lowered glasses redo rates. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente. 

Format:
PPT

Size:
1 slide

Intended audience:
LMP Staff, UBT consultants, improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint slide highlights a business services team that discovered a glitch, corrected it, and brought in $10 million in Medicare reimbursements. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente.

Format:PPT

Size:
1 slide

Intended audience:
LMP staff, UBT consultants and improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint slide features a Materials Management team that found a way to save in linen costs. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente.