Visual Workplace Radio: Let The Workplace Speak

“Never in U.S. history has the subject of healthcare costs been so visible or so contentious….” Thus begins Naida Grunden’s groundbreaking new book, Lean-Led Hospital Design (Charles Hagood/co-author). This week on The Visual Workplace, Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual workplace expert, interviews Ms. Grunden on her concept of lean-led hospital design and why she considers it is indispensable to minimizing soaring healthcare costs. Hear why, when asked “When do you build?“ Grunden responds: “Build when process improvement cannot take you any further.” In traditional hospital planning, the focus is on the architecture, not operations and merely imports and prolongs old systems and the chronic problems tied to them. Grunden offer us instead a way to construct a building that is borne out of continuous improvement. Tune in and here this fresh perspective on the power of a design paradigm that can take 40% of the building cost out before a shovel ever goes into the ground.