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From one side of the vast Pacific to the other…Cmdr. Katharine Mangan, a Barrington, Illinois native, (far left) currently assigned back in the Pacific Northwest for her second time at NHB/NMRTC Bremerton as director of medical services, distinguished herself when stationed at U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Yokosuka for her Continuous Process Improvement submission in the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) category, “Reduce Delay in Vitamin D Deficiency Diagnosis.” Her efforts led to identifying and correcting several issues which contributed to delays for surgery patients, including an inefficient surgical consent process, delays in surgical site preparation, and lack morning safety huddle time standards. With Mangan implementing needed corrections to streamline their process safely and effectively, first patient surgical suite results in room time compliance increased from 34 percent to 90 percent (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer).

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Bremerton, WA - From one side of the vast Pacific to the other…Cmdr. Katharine Mangan, a Barrington, Illinois native, (far left) currently assigned back in the Pacific Northwest for her second time at NHB/NMRTC Bremerton as director of medical services, distinguished herself when stationed at U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Yokosuka for her Continuous Process Improvement submission in the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) category, “Reduce Delay in Vitamin D Deficiency Diagnosis.” Her efforts led to identifying and correcting several issues which contributed to delays for surgery patients, including an inefficient surgical consent process, delays in surgical site preparation, and lack morning safety huddle time standards. With Mangan implementing needed corrections to streamline their process safely and effectively, first patient surgical suite results in room time compliance increased from 34 percent to 90 percent (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer).

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