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LEAN SIX SIGMA FOR HEALTHCARE

The healthcare landscape is changing at an astonishing rate. Now more than ever, hospitals are faced with the imperative to reduce costs while delivering increasingly better patient care. Plus, maneuvering through stricter accreditation requirements and Medicare’s changing reimbursement policies will be more difficult and costly without a more effective framework for producing systematic improvements.

The reality is that adopting Lean Six Sigma programs, even at the best healthcare facilities, is essential to just being competitive. Fortunately, the objectives of controlling costs and improving quality – two goals seemingly at odds with each other – can be achieved simultaneously.


HOW LEAN SIX SIGMA IMPROVES HEALTHCARE

 

 

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Studies of operational improvements in healthcare using Lean Six Sigma are becoming commonplace. By borrowing best practices from the corporate world, this proven methodology works to achieve high levels of business efficiency while still delivering compassionate care. And with dramatic results.

Lean Six Sigma develops core capabilities in healthcare that address urgent needs in patient care and safety and make the kinds of improvements that save lives. In this way, it creates a culture of continuous improvement that is weaved into the fabric of the healthcare system.

This methodology can be applied throughout a healthcare facility to achieve improvements in infection rates, medical records and pharmaceutical errors, bed turnover, emergency room bottlenecks, supplies and equipment availability, patient satisfaction and much more. Importantly, Lean Six Sigma uses a data-driven approach to fix root causes of problems with strict controls that ensure corrective actions are sustained.

Here are just some of the successes that our healthcare clients have achieved:

  • Annual purchasing costs reduced 18% 
  • Outpatient billing cycle time reduced 48% 
  • Discharge process time reduced 41% 
  • 20% increase in OB specialty appointments
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“Within just three months the hospital achieved measurable 
returns exceeding 3.6 times and counting.”

LEAN SIX SIGMA HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS

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