You will receive various ways to approach your Lean Healthcare strategy whether you have started already or considering whether Lean is right for you.
  We will review how a critical access and a metro Portland healthcare system should approach their Lean Strategy, how to incorporate Lean into services like visiting nurse, physician/surgical practices, and labs. 

  What does it take to start a Lean HC journey and what will it look like 1, 2 or 5 years from now.

  This workshop is perfect for executives, managers, clinicians, doctors or any other member of your Hospital, clinic, lab, SNF, or any other continuum care facility.

[Ask to have this workshop at your facility!]
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  Kaizen means continuous incremental improvement and it means a whole lot more.  From taking experimental risks, to managing a small process improvement team to driving change in your business.
  There is not one way or one type of kaizen event in hospitals.  We will review the different types for specific situations.  We will explain the 8 kaizen steps, and give you tips on facilitating your own event. 

  You will see a slide show of the different type of hospital areas going through a kaizen and we will review their pro's, con's, pre-requisites and closed loop approach.  Experience the #1 Lean tool for yourself!
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  You will learn the 4 Lean savings areas for your business and your projects.  Learn how Lean Healthcare realizes inordinate hard & soft savings that impact your business.
  We will review how you roll up savings from a kaizen event, creative ways to study and calculate savings, learn about P&L and balance sheets, how to calculate ROI, see examples of kaizen savings forms, and discuss how & when to communicate savings to your team and your organization. 

  This is an advanced Lean course that enables you to see the true value of Lean!
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  Learn 7 critical mapping tools and techniques for Lean Healthcare planning and implementation.  See specific hospital examples of each tool, how to use it, how to facilitate using it, understand the dynamics behind it (like takt time with Value Stream Mapping), and when you would use it for specific situations or areas in a hospital.
  We will review how a critical access and a metro Portland healthcare system should approach value stream mapping due to the different size and service bandwidth.   

  Learn advanced VSM techniques like stratifying lean value streams and translate that outcome to properly drive change.
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  Learn new and advanced techniques of 5S!  Learn how a culture perceives and experiences change from even a simple tool like 5S.  You will see a slideshow of 5S images and video to see hospital before and after results.
  You will learn different 5S kaizen events to implement from 2 to 4 days, and unique deployments that last months.  Learn pro's and con's from your employee's perspective on 5S challenges. 

  Learn why 5S is the most popular Lean tool & how you can start using it within days.
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  Learn one of the most complex and simplest Lean tools.  Complex in how to apply it to so many different situations in healthcare and a hospital environment.  Simple in learning the principles that you will use even beyond lean projects.
  Lean Setup for office or paperwork tasks.  Lean changeover for room or bed changes.  Learn a unique technique for healthcare called SMER (Single Minute Exchange of Rooms). 

  Learn how to use this Lean tool for adding OR & surgery capacity, increasing throughput of outpatient services, preparing inpatient beds or discharging before 11:00am!
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  You will see various ways to approach your Lean Healthcare planning and implementation.  Quality Tools training looks at project auditing, data analysis, project baseline measurements, time study tools, Excel & Pivot table exposure, and accountability tools for sustaining Lean.
  We will review how Lean Quality Tools dovetails into Kaizen event planning (and implementation) as well as how to teach others on your team to look at data, analyze data, study results, or audit a lean project. 

  Whether you need to brush up with using Excel or need to understand how to sustain Lean long term, this workshop is for you!
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  Lean Healthcare Pull Systems are one of the most difficult principles and techniques to understand, implement in your hospital and master to sustain.

  We will utilize a hands-on simulation to walk us through different aspects of pull systems.  We will discuss key areas like ED to inpatient, outpatient services, and inpatient discharging.

  Walk away from this workshop with understanding of what a Pull System is, how to study it and pitfalls to avoid in planning and kaizen implementations.
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  Experience advanced Lean Healthcare with visual management techniques and a Lean Performance Management System.  This will be one of the most eye opening classes you've ever taken, literally.  Once you have pull systems, you need to implement a system to sustain it.
  See Lean Video's and Lean Photo's of a true Lean System in healthcare.  Learn what it takes to manage it daily and for years along with modifying it over time as patient demand changes, your capacity changes or simply your processes and skill-base changes.
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  Learn how all the aspects of a Lean Healthcare journey come together.  Learn how all the inter and intra dependencies of a true Lean Healthcare Enterprise inter-relate in terms of Lean Value Streams, approach to deploying Kaizen events, and how your culture starts spending less time on eliminating waste and more time on adding value.
  We will review each size hospital's Lean Enterprise from a small rural area to a metro city like Portland.   

  You will learn how to approach your Lean journey with respect to Lean assessments, overall savings, Lean Sensei change agents, overall supply, capacity & labor management, service rationalization, facility optimization & business strategy.
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