SITUATION: When the Nebraska Heart Institute, a group of physicians who have been practicing in the city of Lincoln for over 25 years, recently built their own 92,000-square-foot Heart Hospital, it was important for everything in it to be in line with their patient-focused philosophy and up to par with their state-of-theart technologies. Even the materials storage areas had to look as good as they functioned efficiently. FOCUSING ON PATIENTS INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS PLACE MATERIALS STORAGE AT THE POINT-OF-NEEDTM IN NEW NEBRASKA HEART HOSPITAL The building process was well underway when Jackie R. Mendoza, RN, joined the organization as Cath Lab Team Leader. As a materials management professional, storage was a major concern to her, so she was quick to notice that it was unaccounted for in

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