Business Excellence Consortium

Introduction to Lean Health Care

What do: ThedaCare, Mayo Clinic, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Pittsburgh Regional Health, Massachusetts General and Children’s Hospital-Seattle have in common? They are all Lean practicing health care organizations. The BEC is offering a 2-hour seminar on Lean Health Care to introduce you to the benefits of practicing Lean in your health care organization.

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

• understand how implementing lean will eliminate waste and reduce costs
• understand the 8 different forms of health care waste
• have exposure to all the lean health care tools and thinking
• understand the key metrics that drive a World Class Health Care Organization