Janet Lacey Appointed to Iowa Lean Consortium

Grinnell Regional Medical Center’s director of patient experience and quality has been tapped to serve a three-year term on the Iowa Lean Consortium. Janet Lacey, a 36-year veteran of GRMC, plans to support the mission of the consortium as well as garner Lean practices for the medical center.

Lean is a collection of principles and tools designed to reduce waste in any process, resulting in improvements to time, cost, and quality.

“I felt the Iowa Lean Consortium’s educational programs were fantastic and have taken advantage of many of their offerings. Lean processes are universal and the members of the consortium come from all arenas including manufacturing, business, government, and education as well as healthcare. I feel honored to have been asked to serve on the ILC board,” Lacey says. “Integrating Lean practices into healthcare is essential to increasing safety for our patients and efficiency in our processes. Lean is all about eliminating the waste that currently is so prevalent in healthcare allowing caregivers to spend time focusing on what is most important­ – caring for our patients.”