Lean Healthcare Workshops

Lean Principles Healthcare Workshop - Introduce your team to lean principles and concepts with this one-day workshop. We prsent lean healthcare concepts and highlight their use in the hospital environment. This workshop appeals to a diverse audience - nurses, technicians, unit secretaries, support personnel, supervisors, and managers.

Course Outline:

• Discussion of Lean process objectives.
• Definition of Key Concepts (Lean, Value Added, and Non-Value Added).
• Effect of lead time and batching.
• 7 Wastes in healthcare.

 

Specific Lean Healthcare Workshops

In addition to our lean principles workshop, we offer an extensive collection of workshops that elaborate on individual Lean topics and techniques including: Seven Wastes, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, etc. When offered on-site, at your hospital, we intersperse classroom style instruction with field exercises that enable participants to apply the concepts presented your actual hospital conditions. These additional lean healthcare workshops are often given within our client projects to facilitate lean healthcare implementation:

Healthcare 7 Wastes Workshop - This one day 7 wastes workshop trains employees on the principles of the Seven Wastes. The seven wastes or “muda” are described, examples are provided, and the impact of reducing or eliminating these wastes is presented. Exercises give the participants practical knowledge with the 7 wastes.

Kaizen Process - This kaizen workshop trains employees on Kaizen principles prior to HPK Group’s facilitation of a Kaizen Event.

Healthcare Principles of 5S Workshop- This lean healthcare workshop trains employees on the principles of 5S, usually during HPK Group’s facilitation of a Kaizen Event or other lean implementation project.

Standard Work Workshop - In this lean manufacturing workshop, we will analyze what constitutes a good work standard and we will discuss how to design and implement them. This is an interactive course that will give you essential information in how to create more effective standardized work instructions.

Team leader Training - This half day workshop trains team leaders prior to a kaizen event.

Healthcare Value Stream Mapping (VSM ) Workshop - The value stream mapping workshop covers the process diagramming method known as VSM - Value Stream Mapping. Classroom sections alternate with field exercises to provide experience in applying the VSM methodology to a practical situation.

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Six Sigma Workshops

We offer a range of six sigma workshops from one-day, green belt or black belt depending on your needs. During these six sigma workshops, we present the Six Sigma methodology that has dramatically improved processes for Motorola, Honeywell, and GE. Because the 6 sigma workshop size is limited, participants can interact throughout the instruction phase. Statistical concepts are presented and there are exercises to facilitate the understanding of the tools presented.

These workshops cover Six Sigma topics on activities customized to your needs. Participants gain experience by working through numerous statistical examples to calculate the mean, upper and lower level control limits, create X-bar and R charts, etc. We find that the concepts in this material are well accepted by a diverse audience from management, supervision, technical and production employees.

Six Sigma / Lean Healthcare Workshop

This 2 day workshop presents Six Sigma and Lean healthcare - the two major process improvement initiatives for healthcare. The goal is to not only introduce you to these techniques but also provide you with the practical tools and information you need to make your process improvement program effective. read more

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Healthcare Seminars

Constraint Management and Hospitals - We discuss the application of constraint management for process improvement in the hospital environment and its impact on revenues and operating margin.

Process Improvement for Hospitals - What process improvement techniques can benefit hospitals? Lean healthcare, six sigma and constraint management techniques are presented and benefits of each are highlighted.

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Strategic Planning Workshop

This series of strategic planning workshops, takes your team through the entire strategic planning process and results in a strategic plan for your company. The workshops use balanced scorecard, outcomes-based problem solving, constraint methodology, and scenario planning methodologies. For more information see our Strategic Planning page.

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