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PODCAST: Greg Hood From Lynn Community Health Center – Services Continue With Safety Protocols During COVID-19 Concerns
LYNN (Podcast) The Lynn Community Health Center plays a major role in delivering health services in Lynn. In the past week their operation has made many adjustments to address the concerns over COVID-19 / Caronavirus while maintaining the many health related services the organization provides. In an MSONEWSPORTS podcast Greg Hood, a physician assistant and a primary care team director, shares news and updates from the Lynn Community Health Center. Hood has worked at LCHC for over a decade and the organization is receiving updated guidance from the CDC and other organizations on a daily basis. Additional details and links are posted below the podcast.
http://www.msonewsports.com/greg-hood-from-lynn-community-health-center-services-continue-with-safety-protocols-during-covid-19-concerns/
LYNN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER PREPARING FOR ‘LIKELY’ ARRIVAL OF CORONAVIRUS
LYNN — The coronavirus will likely come to Lynn, according to health officials at the Lynn Community Health Center.
“We don’t want to be alarmist, we want to be realistic,” said Dr. Geoff Pechinsky, chief medical officer.
The Lynn Community Health Center and city officials are collaborating to prepare in the event a Lynn resident contracts COVID-19, a strain of coronavirus that is thought to have originated in Wuhan, China, late last year and has since spread to 87 countries, with more than 95,000 confirmed cases and 3,280 deaths as of Thursday.
There is no confirmed case of the coronavirus right now in Lynn, and the risk to any individual remains low, but at least two people are quarantining themselves at home. These people are not symptomatic, but are taking the precaution after having traveled to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-designated “high-risk country,” according to Lynn Office of Emergency Management Director Lt. Paul Ricchi.
The coronavirus presents symptoms similar to influenza, including fever and respiratory illness. There is no known vaccine or cure.
https://www.itemlive.com/2020/03/05/lynn-community-health-center-preparing-for-likely-arrival-of-coronavirus/
How Lean Can Help Deliver Social Justice While Boosting Quality Health Care
By Alice Lee and Kiame Mahaniah, MD
January 20, 2020
In this podcast, developed from a talk at the 2018 Lean Transformation Summit learn how the Lynn Community Health Center is building successors by turning a recent leadership transition into a catalyst for improvement.
Too often, a change in executive leadership can bring a lean transformation to a grinding halt. But that has not been the case at Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC).
LCHC is located 10 miles from downtown Boston, in the economically, culturally, and socially diverse city of Lynn. It is a small but mighty healthcare center serving more than 40,000 patients representing 113 countries and 72 languages – of which over 90 percent live at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty line.
To conquer the challenges of serving this vibrant community, LEI has worked with LCHC to create a model primary-care clinic powered by lean. In doing this, LCHC hopes to better serve its customers (and employees!) by tackling wait times and achieving increasingly higher levels of productivity.
In this podcast, developed from a talk at the 2018 Lean Transformation Summit by LCHC CEO Kiame Mahaniah, and introduced by LEI Executive Director Alice Lee, learn how LCHC is building successors by turning a leadership transition into a catalyst for improvement. You’ll hear from the two CEOs that exchanged the baton, and find out how they ensured that lean efforts would continue. What did the outgoing CEO do to ensure the continuation of lean thinking? What made the incoming CEO realize that lean thinking truly was the way for everyone?
https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/how-lean-can-help-deliver-social-justice-while-boosting-quality-health-care/
How Lean Can Help Deliver Social Justice While Boosting Quality Health Care
By Alice Lee and Kiame Mahaniah, MD
January 20, 2020
In this podcast, developed from a talk at the 2018 Lean Transformation Summit learn how the Lynn Community Health Center is building successors by turning a recent leadership transition into a catalyst for improvement.
Too often, a change in executive leadership can bring a lean transformation to a grinding halt. But that has not been the case at Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC).
LCHC is located 10 miles from downtown Boston, in the economically, culturally, and socially diverse city of Lynn. It is a small but mighty healthcare center serving more than 40,000 patients representing 113 countries and 72 languages – of which over 90 percent live at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty line.
To conquer the challenges of serving this vibrant community, LEI has worked with LCHC to create a model primary-care clinic powered by lean. In doing this, LCHC hopes to better serve its customers (and employees!) by tackling wait times and achieving increasingly higher levels of productivity.
In this podcast, developed from a talk at the 2018 Lean Transformation Summit by LCHC CEO Kiame Mahaniah, and introduced by LEI Executive Director Alice Lee, learn how LCHC is building successors by turning a leadership transition into a catalyst for improvement. You’ll hear from the two CEOs that exchanged the baton, and find out how they ensured that lean efforts would continue. What did the outgoing CEO do to ensure the continuation of lean thinking? What made the incoming CEO realize that lean thinking truly was the way for everyone?
31. CEO Transition – an obstacle or an opportunity?
By Lean Enterprise Institute
January 20, 2020
By Lean Enterprise Institute
January 20, 2020
Too often, a change in executive leadership can bring a lean transformation to a grinding halt. But that has not been the case at Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC). Within two years of the start of their lean journey, LCHC CEO Lori Abrams Berry announced her intention to retire. The immediate reaction from the LCHC community was concern that her departure would impact the progress made on advancing lean thinking and practice with improved outcomes and engagement of its team members. Instead, the impending CEO transition was embraced as a challenge, a gap to tackle. Learn how LCHC approached this executive leadership transition to ensure the continuity of their lean transformation. John Shook’s favorite conference keynote of all time, using lean thinking to improve hypertension in a community health centrer.
https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/31-ceo-transition-an-obstacle-or-an-opportunity/A Postcard — with Leadership Insights — from Nashville
By John Shook
October 17, 2022 (2019)
By John Shook
October 17, 2022 (2019)
A look back at LEI’s Lean Transformation Summit in 2018 shares a few tips from CEO keynoters on how to successfully lead with lean thinking and practices – and some advice on being a good employer from LEI Founder Jim Womack.
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A Riveting Keynote: Dr. Kiame Mahaniah
Among the year’s practitioner keynotes was my new favorite conference keynote of all time. Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, CEO of the Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC), spoke about the work of this small center in the economically, culturally, and socially diverse community of Lynn, Massachusetts. The challenges faced by Kiame, LCHC, and the entire Lynn community are immense. In his address, Kiame and his predecessor Lori Berry (in video clips) described LCHC’s lean journey and how they managed the CEO transition. As described in his presentation, their journey addressed the ambitious question: “How do we transform a whole community by transforming its biggest asset, the health center?” Regarding the CEO transition, above all, they prove that a lean transformation can survive a CEO change. Lori and Kiame decided on the radical approach of cooperating in a planful way to transition as seamlessly as possible from CEO A to CEO B, preserving the excellent lean transformation work that began two years ago. Colleagues Bernadette Thomas and Kim Eng, LEI Coach Alice Lee, and the LCHC team supported their efforts. Kiame also briefly shared four critical points that help ensure a successful CEO transition:- Trumpet lean successes – While maintaining the humility Lean Thinkers are known for, you must ensure all the stakeholders know that you attribute the organization’s successes to lean thinking.
- Identify people with twin but conflicting personality traits — “who are willing to admit that things are a total mess and yet be able to believe that it can be different.”
- Set up lean thinking and practices as “a source of independent authority and wisdom to which you as the CEO, as a leader, can be held accountable.”
- Begin succession planning on Day 1.
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