Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare Executives
Who Should Attend
Medical Directors, CEO’s, CFO’s, Directors of
Nursing, Risk Managers and Quality Assurance Directors, and
other senior-level executives, including nurse executives,
physician leaders, and management teams. In addition to
healthcare senior leaders, this program is a "must-attend" for
healthcare quality professionals who desire to understand how
to coach senior leaders in their roles as key strategists.
Learning Outcomes
- Seven key concepts of aggressive cost reduction.
- Ten practices for initiating rapid cost position
improvement identified in the "Good to Great in Healthcare"
research.
- The relationship between medical errors, process waste,
waits and delays, and lost productivity and cost
recovery.
- The seven types of waste and eight proven techniques to
remove waste, optimize throughput and recover associated
costs.
- How to formulate three- to five-year strategic process
goals for both waste removal and cost recovery (the strategic
"Magic Moment" spreadsheet).
- Research from other industries and leading healthcare
systems that highlights techniques for reducing process waste
and converting error reduction and waste into productivity
gains.
- The 100-Day Workout method, a rapid-cycle, robust
management method for implementing aggressive cost reduction
and Lean Six Sigma's DMAIC method.
- "Good to Great in Healthcare" research, a study of
low-cost performers compared to high-cost performers,
illustrating practices for quantum improvement.
- A case study that uses comparative data to set stretch
goals and project targets for clinical, operations and supply
chain.
Market Focus:
Healthcare
Related ASQ Bodies of Knowledge:
Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence
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