Green Belt in Lean Healthcare

This 8 day training and certification program is developed specifically towards people in Healthcare environments. Participants acquire the necessary basic knowledge of Lean and can apply basic Lean tools in order to be part of an improvement team or even lead/coach improvement events. All cases and examples used in this training come from a healthcare environment.

What can I do with this training?

‘Lean’ is a business strategy for organizing and improving your operational activities in order to achieve your organization's objectives in a more effective way and to become more competitive. We strive for perfection in improving the flow of value through processes and departments, by mobilizing all employees, day after day, to reduce waste (non-value added activities). Success stories in the US and UK have proven that Lean, when implemented in a correct way, can result in drastic improvements in care quality, overall patient experience, low cost, better resource utilization of medical staff.

Target Audience

People in Healthcare environments who want to be part of an improvement (e.g. department, process, etc.) team or want to lead/coach such a team.

Prerequisites

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Certification

The Green Belt in Lean Healthcare certificate can be obtained after passing a theory test and a practical exam, based on a written report of at least one practical point improvement/Kaizen event with demonstrated results by applying one or more Lean basic tools, learned in this training.

Why follow a training with us?

The price contains the tuition fee, hand-outs, drink, coffee and sandwiches. 

You may pay a part of the tuition fee with your  'KMO portefeuille'!

 
** All prices are in  € and exclusive VAT (21%).

Day 1

• What is Lean? Basic principles of Lean
• Value vs. Waste, types of Waste
• 5 steps in Lean Thinking
• Value stream thinking

• Overview of the most important pillars of Lean and the most important tools needed to implement Lean in your office or service organization, based on the Toyota Production System (TPS).

• Typical challenges in a healthcare environment

Day 2

• Basic Healthcare Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
• How to define good patient/service families
• 8 lean design guidelines for flow

Day 3

• Basic Healthcare Value Stream Mapping (VSM) - continued
  • Developing a future state and implementation plan
  • Case example
• How to deal with variation in healthcare value streams
  • Capacity vs. Lead Time - Variable Factor Programming (VFP)
  • Demand/capacity analysis
  • Heijunka principles

Day 4

• Kaizen, PDCA, A3
• Basic Problem Solving Techniques

Day 5

• Operational Stability (5S - Basic Workplace Design, Standard Work)
• Jidoka - Built in Quality (Andon, Poka Yoke, Visual Management, Improvement Boards)

Day 6

• Additional Lean tools for healthcare
  • Pull/Kanban supermarket systems in healthcare
  • Spaghetti Charts
  • SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Dies): how to reduce changeover/setup activities (e.g. in surgery rooms)
  • OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness): how to reduce waste on equipment used in healthcare environments
• How to quantify waste in healthcare activities: Work Sampling

Day 7

• Change Management - How to deal with the Human Factor