Business Excellence Consortium

Overview of Lean for Health Care

The BEC is offering a one-day session on Overview of Lean for Health Care. This session is the beginning of your journey toward world-class and provides the answers to your questions on Lean and how it is applicable in a health care setting. This new approach to thinking and learning supports the paradigms that we hope for: creating vibrant, healthy, competitive, world-class health organizations that optimize people, processes and resources.   This is a quantum leap in the application of Lean training and methodology: don't just be Lean - be vibrant, healthy and fit.

Overview of Lean for Health Care Content Includes:

• How Lean Applies to Health Care
• Why Lean Health Care?
• Health Care Patient (Customer) Satisfaction and Waste Elimination
• Health Care Management WCE Implementation Prerequisites
• Value Stream Mapping
• 5S, Paving the Approach to World Class – Creating a Safe, Clean, and Organized Working Environment
• Team Building/Problem Solving/Error Proofing
• Health Care Simulation – a Demonstration of “Push” versus “Pull” Processing of Health Care Value-Added Activities
• Visual Communication & Standard Work – the Key to Improved Health Care Quality
• Total Productive Equipment Maintenance (TPM)
• Setup Reduction – as it Applies to MRI, CT Scanner, and other critical pieces of Health care equipment and activities
• Enterprise Wide Inventory Kanbans – Eliminating Outages and Shortages of Regularly Used Health care Supplies 

• Understand and define the principles of Lean health care

• What is Lean health care?
• What are the principles of Lean in any business?
• What Lean tools are available to the health care industry?
• Where are Lean tools most effective in health care?
• How can I implement Lean in my organization?

• Understand how Lean methodology supports your health care business initiatives

The Business Excellence Consortium at the Milwaukee School of Engineering has partnered with WCM Associates, a consulting and book publishing company, dedicated to the dissemination and the implementation of advanced techniques of world class manufacturing. This partnership combines real world experience with a proven method of knowledge transfer resulting in high impact training and implementation support!