Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare Executives

Lean Six Sigma has become a prominent tool in the healthcare industry, as it has significantly brought costs down and improved patient care. This training programs helps you develop and implement an action plan to quickly reduce your costs, while improving quality and reducing medical errors.

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Attention healthcare quality professionals who coach senior leaders in their roles as key strategist.

Has your organization attempted to reduce costs but only realized short-term results? Have patient care and ED throughput and capacity constraints become serious issues for your hospital? Using Lean Six Sigma it is possible to significantly bring and keep costs down and improve patient care, throughput and capacity (including ED, surgery, discharge time of day) by 5 to 15 percent.

Lean Six Sigma is an innovative approach to reducing costs and optimizing throughput while maintaining or enhancing quality through the systematic removal of process waste and delays. Using real-life case studies, you'll learn about various cost reduction methods and how staff core competencies and organizational resources affect cost reduction. As a result of this program, you will be able to develop and implement a tailored action plan to quickly reduce your costs and sustain those reductions while improving quality and reducing medical errors. For those who will be attending this program, we recommend the following book: "Lean-Six Sigma for Healthcare: A Senior Leader Guide to Improving Cost and Throughput."

  • Learning Objectives
    • Know seven key concepts of aggressive cost reduction.
    • Be able to implement ten practices for initiating rapid cost position improvement identified in the "Good to Great in Healthcare" research.
    • Understand the relationship between medical errors, process waste, waits and delays, and lost productivity and cost recovery.
    • Understand the seven types of waste and eight proven techniques to remove waste, optimize throughput and recover associated costs.
    • Know how to formulate three to five year strategic process goals for both waste removal and cost recovery (the strategic "Magic Moment" spreadsheet).
    • Become familiar with research from other industries and leading healthcare systems that highlights techniques for reducing process waste and converting error reduction and waste into productivity gains.
    • Learn how to implement the 100 Day Workout method, a rapid cycle, robust management method for implementing aggressive cost reduction and Lean Six Sigma's DMAIC method.
    • Be exposed to "Good to Great in Healthcare" research, a study of low cost performers compared to high cost performers, illustrating practices for quantum improvement.
    • Learn how a case study that uses comparative data to set stretch goals and project targets for clinical, operations and supply chain could be applied similarly to your organization.
  • 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.

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    Prerequisites

    Knowledge and preferably experience as a senior leader

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