Healthcare is in crisis. The industry is struggling with skyrocketing costs, poor quality, nursing shortages and employee dissatisfaction — all symptoms of deeper problems inherent in the system itself.

More and more healthcare providers are realizing the imperative of improving quality and safety and eliminating waste as strategies for responding to the challenges.

Lean Healthcare can eliminate many obstacles to excellence, such as cumbersome information technology systems, worker frustration, and inadvertent errors and oversights that can increase patient safety risks. Surprisingly few improvements require costly or sweeping high-tech “fixes.” Most often, simple, well designed interactions based on scientific observations and experiments bring nearly unimaginable improvement… fast.

Learn how to map the process flow and identify the activities that add value from the customer's perspective. You will learn how to structure your organization to support and continuously improve a lean process. Individuals who successfully pass IIE’s Lean Green Belt Exam will be awarded the Lean Green Belt.

This course is part of the Lean Enterprise Certificate Program.  Learn more about IIE certificate programs and how you can save by paying in advance for all of the courses included in a program.

Course Schedule

No courses currently scheduled. If you are interested in information on availability, contact IIE Director of Continuing Education and Program Development Larry Aft, P.E., (770) 349-1130.

Overview:

This three-day course provides an in-depth understanding of lean enterprise principles and how to apply them within your healthcare organization. Your lean journey begins with a series of interactive simulations that demonstrate how each lean concept is applied and its impact on the process. Mapping the process flow and identifying the activities that add value from the customer's perspective is the cornerstone of this class. The class is then given a scenario and the students simulate the conversion from traditional to lean in a practical hands-on environment. The course also provides a structure for how to manage a lean process for continuous improvement within the healthcare environment. Participants will learn how to structure their organizations to support and continuously improve a lean process. Participants will also fully understand how to implement 5S within their plants and how to begin reducing setup time using the SMED process.

Topic Highlights:

What You Will Learn:

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Create and improve a lean process
• Implement 5S to develop a safe, clean working environment
• Map the process flow and identify activities that add value
• Applying the SMED process in healthcare

Course Content

• Flow: Establishing one-piece flow across the value-adding activities
• Point-Of-Use: Using workplace organization and equipment setup reduction techniques to enable flow by having all equipment and materials readily accessible
• Pull: Providing a method for continuously replenishing materials as they are consumed by customer demand
• Built-in Quality: Continuously improving each step of the production process to eliminate variation and to pursue the goal of perfect product and process quality
• Build to Demand: Learn to produce only to actual customer demand
• Exam

Corporate Training

This course is available as a corporate training program and can be customized to meet your company’s needs. For more information, contact IIE Director of Continuing Education and Program Development Larry Aft, P.E., (770) 349-1130.

Class cancellation:  IIE reserves the right to cancel a class up to 15 business days prior to the scheduled start date.