The Lean Healthcare Certificate Program is designed for those medical professionals who desire to help create and lead a culture of continuous improvement throughout their organization.
Lean Healthcare is a proven methodology that focuses on enhancing “real work” — what is really of value in every facet of your healthcare organization and the patient experience — and fundamentally changing how people throughout your entire organization will think, approach problems, and take on daily challenges.
Rigorous application of Lean Healthcare can:
Lean Healthcare is the transformative pathway where management and employees alike embrace a culture of continuous improvement, making it part of their daily work.
The Lean Healthcare Certificate Program is an intellectually rigorous experience where classroom instruction is replaced by one-on-one coaching, mentoring, and hands-on, learn-by-doing.
Upon acceptance to the program, you, along with your Lean Coach, will begin work on a project within your organization which will apply Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Kaizen, A3, and other lean tools. As you navigate through the requirements of each project step, your organization will make significant productivity and quality gains while you gain the experience and confidence to lead your own Lean Healthcare Kaizen event.
Upon receiving your certificate your organization will have:
Your Lean Healthcare Certificate will be awarded after successful completion your in-house project, assessment of the projects by a board of lean experts, and confirmation of project outcomes by your supervisor or director.
The Lean Healthcare Certificate Program is for medical professionals who not only embrace Lean Healthcare as the transformative pathway to improve patient care, but also those gifted individuals who can mentor their co-workers in the skills they need to continuously change and improve their organization, be it a clinic, hospital, physician’s office, nursing home, laboratory, ER or administrative department.
Program enrollment will be limited only to those individuals who have successfully completed the following:
Those accepted will have two years to complete the program and receive their certificate.
Annah Poteat-Godwin, Extension Improvement Specialist, Lean Healthcare, is one of the driving forces behind the newest IES product offering, and works with North Carolina healthcare alliances, associations and providers to bring attention to lean and how it applies in healthcare organizations. She works with healthcare clients to create pathways for their lean journeys, and teaches lean tools to clients, coaching them to process improvement and organizational transformation.
For additional information about registering for the Lean Healthcare Certificate program, please start a conversation with Doug Hummer at (919) 515-4381 or doug_hummer@ncsu.edu, or with Marie Griffin at (919) 513-1359 or marie_griffin@ncsu.edu.
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