Kaizen for Lean Healthcare
Course code: HKE
Delivery: LAN, Web
Length: 1.5 hours
Kaizen, Japanese for “improvement for the better”, is at the core of Lean, both practically and culturally. Kaizen events are structured sessions where workers build action plans to correct deficiencies, usually identified previously in a Future State Implementation Plan. For healthcare workers who are passionate about patient care, these events are the moment of truth where they take on the barriers that stand between them and their patients.
Audience
Kaizen for Lean Healthcare is an interactive, multimedia, eLearning training program. It is intended for managers, technologists, healthcare staff, and trainers in the Healthcare industry who work in, or are transitioning to, a Lean workplace.
Kaizen for Lean Healthcare Training Course Content
- The meaning of Kaizen in healthcare
- Kaizen Events, the patient-centric Value Stream Map, and the Future State Plan
- Responsibilities of the Value Stream Leader and Kaizen Event Leader
- Cross-functional Kaizen teams, types of Kaizen
- How a Kaizen Event is initiated, event constraints
- Successful practices of Kaizen healthcare teams
- Basic team problem-solving tools, Brainstorming, Five Why
- Root Cause and the Cause and Effect Diagram
- The Kaizen Event Problem-Solving Process
- Identify the problem, measure, analyze, generate solutions
- Select the solution, implement, evaluate, standardize
- Kaizen problem-solving tools
- Sustaining Kaizen improvements in the healthcare system
Modules
- Preparing for a Kaizen Event
- Working Together in a Kaizen Team
- Finding a Solution
- Implementing the Solution
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