OhioHealth

Yeah.

So thinking to the OhioHealth approach, you know, calling it operational excellence, is that kind of the general mix? I mean, you know, in the intro I read off and I've seen and heard a lot about what I would describe as lean management practices.

Is there also a little bit of kind of, you know, as needed Six Sigma skills and application within your team?

Um, I have, I think five or six of my team members are black belts, but no, I would say in terms of practical use, it is exclusively lean.

Actually, it is funny because at first, as I was in my role, I remember thinking, oh gosh, why did I spend the time really focused on both of these majors when one is a lot more applicational than the other? And...

Especially as I stepped into a leader role, but even before I was in a leader role, a lot of what we're doing as we build the management system is we need to make sure the why is really important.

And so we're essentially following the management system, right? And here's why this management system is specifically going to work for OhioHealth.

and why it's going to work for our business.

spiraled further.

Over the years, Elizabeth gave birth at hospitals across three different Ohio cities, at least 11 births at Holzer Medical Center and others at Ohio Health.

Oh, blessings in Athens that in November of 2022, she delivered premature conjoined twins at Ohio South at Ohio Health Riverside Methodist Hospital.

in Columbus, a major level one trauma center.

Tragically, those twins, Faith and Bailey, lived for only about an hour.

But at the time, it was hard to find a hospital bed.

So they were like, we have one here at Ohio Health.

We can do this tomorrow, get it going.

We did connect with the surgeon and really liked him.

refer us on or, you know, something.

There is minimal referring on to other doctors in this field, which is wild.

So, yeah, we we had one video chat with her to kind of end our time with her and said we're going to move on to at the time it was Ohio Health is who we were with and Ohio State is who we went to.

And.

on the HAI pump.

So we ended up switching from Ohio Health to Ohio State, and they put an HAI pump in my abdomen where I would receive chemo directly through that.

It has a catheter that goes into the artery right before the liver.

So it's a pretty...

further.

Over the years, Elizabeth gave birth at hospitals across three different Ohio cities, at least 11 births at Holzer Medical Center and others at Ohio Health.

Oh, blessings in Athens that in November of 2022, she delivered premature conjoined twins at Ohio Health Riverside Methodist Hospital.

In Columbus, a major level one trauma center.

Tragically, those twins, Faith and Bailey, lived for only about an hour.