Abstract
A high throughput COVID-19 vaccination site was created using Lean principles and tools. Mass-vaccination sites can achieve high output by creating a standard physical design for workspaces and standardised work protocols, and by timing each step in the vaccination process to create a value stream map that can identify and remove all wasteful steps. Reliability of the vaccination process can be assured by creating a visual checklist that monitors the individual steps as well as by building in second checks by downstream personnel. Finally, productivity can be closely monitored by recording the start and completion time for each vaccination and plotting run charts. With 78 personnel working efficiently and effectively together, a maximum throughput of 5024 injections over 10 hours was achieved. As compared with other published COVID-19 mass-vaccination sites, our site attained threefold–fourfold higher productivity. We share our approach to encourage others to reproduce our vaccination system.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Policy,Leadership and Management
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