{"id":647,"date":"2016-01-13T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2022-08-23T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:17:52","slug":"color-kanban-for-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/color-kanban-for-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Kanban for Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every hospital storage room I&#8217;ve seen uses one color of kanban storage bin. This makes it harder to find what you want unless you know where it is. What if hospitals used colored kanban bins for the their two-bin kanban system (one in use, one for backup)? Red for blood; yellow for urinary, blue for respiratory? Wouldn&#8217;t that make it much easier to find needed supplies?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colored-kanban-storage-bins-hospital-1.jpg\" alt=\"colored kanban storage bins hospital\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colored-kanban-storage-bins-hospital-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colored-kanban-storage-bins-hospital-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colored-kanban-storage-bins-hospital-1-115x81.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colored kanban storage bins for hospital supplies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every hospital storage room I&rsquo;ve seen uses one color of kanban storage bin. This makes it harder to find what you want unless you know where it is. What if hospitals used colored kanban bins for the their two-bin kanban system (one in use, one for backup)? Red for blood; yellow for urinary, blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,3,6],"tags":[110,166,164],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-lean","category-service","tag-hospital","tag-lean","tag-two-bin-kanban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}