PROCESS EXCELLENCE FOR HEALTHCARE
Healthcare providers are under increasing pressure to rapidly reduce costs and increase capacities while delivering better patient care and patient satisfaction. The old ways of doing business must be replaced with more systematic methods that lead to a holistic alignment of the entire organization and its processes to achieve necessary outcomes.
Adopting the methods of High Performance Enterprises leads to the alignment of leadership, assessments, sense-making, execution and results that meet financial targets and performance goals. While seemingly counterintuitive, the objectives of controlling costs, increasing throughput, improving quality of care and patient and employee satisfaction can be achieved simultaneously. You can expect cost and timing improvements from 20%-50% by engaging High Performance Enterprise solutions.
- Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare borrows best practices from the corporate world. Lean Six Sigma methodologies and practices work to achieve high levels of efficiency and effectiveness, while delivering more compassionate care and higher patient (and employee) satisfaction and advocacy.
- Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare develops core competencies that address urgent needs in patient care and safety, while creating an organizational culture of continuous improvement that is more flexible and adaptable to the changing demands of today's healthcare landscape.
- Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare can be applied throughout a healthcare organization to achieve improvements in Patient to Physician times, infection rates, medical records processing, pharmaceutical errors, bed turnover, emergency department bottlenecks, supplies and equipment availability, patient satisfaction and more.
- Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare has a significant, positive effect on employee morale leading to reduced absentee rates, labor turnover rates and agency spending.
- Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare employs a systematic, scientific, metrics-based problem solving approach so everyone thoroughly understands patient requirements and the linkage of individual and departmental processes to desired outcomes.
- Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare identifies root causes of problems and helps in the development of effective solutions to deal with them and sustain the gains.
Call the Kaizen Management Institute today for more information.
(928) 951-0018 or
Charles Shillingburg at CLS@kaizenmi.com
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