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Executive Summary Executive Summary In Sabrina Rodak’s “The 5 "Ss" to Creating an Efficient Hospital Environment,” many hospitals are actively pursuing strategies to improve process efficiency and reduce operation costs. According to Rodak, many hospitals have implemented lean strategies as well as Six Sigma to reduce waste and streamline hospital operation. The author also asserts that reducing waste in the areas surrounding the processes is vital for achieving the overall objective of efficient management of hospitals.

In the article, Rodak presents the ideas of Ron Keith, a TechSolve health care advisor, on how hospital management efficiency can be achieved through adoption of the 5S strategy: sort, straighten, shine, standardize, and sustain. Sorting helps hospitals to identify items that are no longer useful. Straightening helps hospitals to arrange their resources via basic visual management to reduce inventory and ensure orderliness. The shine step enables hospitals to expose situations that may put hospital efficiency and quality in jeopardy and swiftly act on them appropriately.

The standardize step is where hospitals establish standard protocols to ensure that the first three Ss are effectively executed and that there is no relapse. The sustain phase entails the maintenance of efficient hospital averment by keeping the other four Ss alive. It is the most difficult to execute of all the 5Ss. Effective implementation of the 5S system is crucial for attaining short and long-term efficiency objectives.ReferenceRodak, S. (2012). “The 5 "Ss" to Creating an Efficient Hospital Environment.

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