THE FLOW ARCHITECT TOOLKIT — OPERATOR'S KIT  (Shane Welter)

START HERE: open "Board Business-Case ROI Calculator.xlsx" and enter your unit's numbers.

This is the Operator's Kit — the eight hands-on tools for running and fixing hospital flow:
  · Board Business-Case ROI Calculator.xlsx
  · Flow Architect's Diagnostic Workbook.xlsx
  · Flow Risk Screener.xlsx
  · Discharge-by-Noon Implementation Kit.docx + Discharge-by-Noon Daily Checklist.pdf
  · Daily Capacity-Huddle Facilitation Kit.docx
  · 12 Monday-Morning Interventions for Hospital Flow.pdf
  · Boarder-to-Bed Root Cause Tree.pdf
  · The 12 Laws — Exhibits Pack.pptx

The Flow Architect Toolkit comes in three kits:
  1. Operator's Kit (this download) — the working tools above.
  2. Team Kit — the 12-Week Huddle Guide, the Friday Afternoon Cascade tabletop simulation, the Find the Friction mapping exercise, and the 12 Laws wall poster.
  3. Classroom & Policy Kit — the Outpatient Bottleneck teaching case and teaching note, the policy brief, and the syllabus integration toolkit.
The Team Kit and the Classroom & Policy Kit are separate downloads at shanewelter.com/toolkit.

Tools are planning aids; figures are estimates, not audited financials. Author-proposed heuristics are labeled as such.

The Flow Architect Toolkit · The 12 Laws of Healthcare Operations · © 2026 Shane Welter · shanewelter.com · Free companion tool — share within your organization; not for resale.
