Mike Hogan - Biography Biography / Highlights Lean Master with over 24 years of experience in Lean operations management and continuous improvement projects. With 17 years of Lean Healthcare implementation and design experience Mike has applied lean principles and lean design to sterile processing, inpatient units, nutritional services, laboratories, surgical departments, emergency departments, registration processes, radiology, hospitalist’s, discharge planning, inpatient flow, hospice services, clinical sites, and other hospital service areas. He has assisted hospital planning teams by working with their architects and internal facility departments to construct their new hospitals and clinics with Process Improvement methodologies. He has applied Lean in a variety of settings including extensive 3P design and Lean design training. Core Competency Areas Sterile Processing Medical Insurance Emergency Departments (Adult & Pediatrics) Cath Lab Endoscopy Behavioral Health Clinics (MOB & POB) Inpatient Units- MedSurg, Telemetry, ICU Oncology Gastroenterology Dialysis Unit Orthopedics Surgery Neuro Radiology Cardiac Laboratories General Surgery Pharmacy Physical Therapy Nutritional Services Hospice Services Pre-Admit Testing NICU Finance Pathology Services (Internal & External) Cancer Centers