Acute care is a level of health care in. which a patient is treated for a brief but. severe episode of illness,for conditions. that are the result of disease or trauma, and during recovery from surgery. Acute. care is generally provided in a hospital. by a variety of clinical personnel using.
Under the lean manufacturing system, seven wastes are identified: overproduction, inventory, motion, defects, over-processing, waiting, and transport. Overproduction. The most serious of the wastes, overproduction can cause all other types of wastes and results in excess inventory.
These types of waste are some of the most easily recovered types of waste, possibly removing them from the waste stream entirely. These four types of waste create almost 70% of the 250 million tons of annual solid waste production in the United States (EPA, 2009b). This gives United States waste production as a whole a great possible waste recovery rate.