Lean Healthcare Certification // Lean Healthcare Solutions

Lean Healthcare Training Program

Lean Healthcare Solutions provides exclusive training to healthcare professionals, executives, directors, managers, supervisors, college students, and others the fundamental knowledge they need to transition into a "lean" culture.

Those who take advantage of Lean Healthcare Solutions healthcare training program will acquire a thorough understanding of all lean concepts. Our facilitators have a successful, hands-on practical experience implementing lean methodologies and principles and our curriculum is filled with examples, photographs, quizzes, tests, case studies, and interactive exercises.

Lean Training Objectives for Students

Familiarize participant with lean concepts and how the lean elements, rules, and tools interact.
Provide the participant with an understanding of how lean concepts can be applied to the different operational departments of a healthcare organization and how to gain buy-in from senior leaders and front line staff.
Explain in detail how lean concepts will substantially improve the operating and financial performance of any business.
Provide the participant with a stronger ability to recognize and eliminate waste in processes.
Participants will learn how to determine value added versus non-value added activities.
Provide the participant with the essential tools to better understand process (patient) flow and the pull system.
Provide the participant with a broad understanding of key lean tools including 5S, Single minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) or quick changeover, Kanban, Visual Workplace, Error Proofing and Scheduling.
Provide the participant with an understanding of lean metrics and how to determine what information should be measured.
Provide the participant with the fundamentals behind "standardized work" and how it’s used to eliminate process variation.
How to identify the value stream or area that requires improvement.
Provide the participant with a better understanding of policy deployment and its role in any lean implementation process.
Our participants will learn in detail the Kaizen process and how to use this process to foster a lean culture.
The participant will know how and have the ability to:
- Develop a lean road map
- Develop an implementation plan
- Present the information to senior leadership

Lean Manufacturing 5-Day Practitioner Certification Program

Monday:	Basics of Lean Principles with Simulation Exercises
8:00-8:30 am:	Registration
8:30-9:30 am:	Welcome and Participant Introductions
9:30-10:00 am:	Intro Lecture: Basics of Lean Principles with Simulation Exercises
10:00-10:15 am:	Break
10:15-12:00 pm:	Lean Principles w/ simulation
12:00-12:30 pm:	Lunch
12:30-2:00 pm:	Lean Principles w/ simulation
2:00-2:15 pm:	Break
2:15-4:30 pm:	Lean Principles w/ simulation
Tuesday:	Identifying Lean Tools for Manufacturing Industry
8:00-10:00 am:	Supporting Lean Tools
10:00-10:15 am:	Break
10:15-12:00 pm:	Toyota Practical Problem Solving and A3
12:00-1:00 pm:	Lunch
1:00-2:30 pm:	Supporting Lean Tools
2:30-2:45 pm:	Break
2:45 - 4:30 pm:	0pportunity for Facility Waste Walk
Wednesday:	Process Mapping for Current and Future State
8:00-8:45 am:	Introduction / Scoping / SIPOC
8:45-9:30 am:	Group work on SIPOC & Break
9:30-10:15 am:	Current State Mapping Basics
10:15-11:15 am:	Group work on Current State Map & Break
11:15-12:00 pm:	Case Study
12:00-12:45 pm:	Lunch
12:45-3:30 pm:	Future State Mapping Basics/Group work on Future State Mapping/ Group work Report out
3:30-4:30 pm:	Key Team Roles & Your Implementation Plan
Thursday:	A3 Problem Solving Tools & Building Effective Teams
8:00-10:00 am:	Toyota Practical Problem Solving and A3
10:00-10:15 am:	Break
10:15-12:00 pm:	Toyota Practical Problem Solving and A3
12:00-12:30 pm:	Lunch
12:30-2:45 pm:	A3 Exercise
2:45-3:00 pm:	Break
3:00-3:45 pm:	Using A3 to Develop Standard Work
3:45-4:30 pm:	Building Effective Teams/Coaching
Friday:	Change Management for Lean Manufacturing
7:30-9:00 am:	Change Management for Manufacturing Industry
9:00-9:15 am:	Break
9:15-10:30 am:	Lessons from Lean journey
10:30-12:00 pm:	Develop 100 Day Lean Rollout Plan
12:00-1:00 pm:	Lunch
1:00-2:00 pm:	Lean Manufacturing Panel
2:00-2:30 pm:	Open discussion with instructors
2:30-3:00 pm:	Wrap up / Evaluations