Lean Six Sigma Excellence for
Healthcare!
There is no getting around the fact that healthcare is
changing in fundamental ways. Facilities and
providers who sit back and wait for the coming changes to
envelop them are sure to endure longer hours, fewer resources
and increasing levels of frustration. But, those who
proactively adapt to the new realities by realigning their
care delivery processes to make their organizations more
efficient and effective are sure to have quite a different
experience.
SigmaMed Solutions specializes in helping healthcare
facilities meet their most pressing goals in an efficient and
effective manner. SigmaMed has developed a unique
project methodology that it calls Lean Sigma Healthcare, which
is a concise subset of the Lean Six Sigma methodology
specifically geared to the needs of healthcare
facilities. SigmaMed teaches cross-functional
improvement teams a core set of principles and tools that
enable them to make rapid improvements in their work without
wasting time learning Lean Six Sigma concepts more appropriate
for manufacturing or high volume industries.
Lean Sigma Healthcare (LSH) is not about working harder or
faster, but of eliminating the myriad time wasters and errors
that throw you and your staff off schedule and result in
unbillable work. And a funny thing happens when you
eliminate waste and make time more productive: staff and
patients become happier, quality time with patients is
increased, things start running smoothly and fewer mistakes or
omissions occur. And everyone may even go home on time,
without a stack of charts!
What is Lean Sigma
Healthcare and the eMBB?
Lean Sigma Healthcare (LSH) is a version of Lean Six Sigma
specifically adapted to the needs of small and rural
healthcare facilities. SigmaMed implements LSH using a
project management framework called e-Master Blackbelt
Services (eMBB), which was designed to keep costs as low as
possible without sacrificing the effectiveness of implementing
a Lean Six Sigma program.
The SigmaMed e-MBB minimizes the cost of implementing a Lean
Six Sigma program by leveraging a proven combination of:
- Executive change acceleration exercises;
- On-site and virtual training and facilitation;
- A web-based training and certification system; and
- Extended mentoring and project management by Lean Six
Sigma Master Black Belts with decades of healthcare
administration and quality improvement experience.
The goal of an eMBB project is to build the internal
capabilities of your teams to lead and implement effective
process improvement projects without the long-term need for
the expensive involvement of outside consultants. During
the course of a guided Lean Six Sigma process improvement
project, SigmaMed Black Belts train a core improvement team,
mentor a Team Leader in more advanced LSH tools and project
management techniques, prepare executives to drive the change,
and provide extended project management to ensure that the
budding effort remains on track.
Change and system transformation initiatives that start with
an effective and highly visible first project are far more
likely to succeed and SigmaMed's Master Black Belts will help
give your effort to a successful beginning. In the
months following the first successful project, SigmaMed will
provide the Team Leader with the kind of mentoring, project
management, and advanced assistance provided by Master Black
Belts at large facilities to ensure subsequent projects are
successful and well implemented. Time, money and most of
all, patience with flavor of the month change efforts, are
short and SigmaMed will help you ensure the changes designed
by your teams stick in the long run and precious resources are
conserved.
What's In It For You...
- Lowest cost for implementation of a Lean Six Sigma
Performance Improvement program; recoup the low up-front
investment within 3-6 months, versus several years for a
normal Lean Six Sigma program;
- Delivers the most effective process improvement
available today by distilling the lessons from 25 yrs of
Lean Six Sigma history and leveraging modern tools of
collaboration and training.
- Serves as your own expert team of quality, process
improvement, and project management specialists to ensure
that your quality and PI efforts successfully target the
right problems.
- Develops your staff's internal expertise and ensures
highly effective improvement activities through long-term
project management and mentoring by Lean Six Sigma Master
Black Belts with years of healthcare experience;
SigmaMed Solutions
SigmaMed Solutions is a partnership of Lean Six Sigma
specialists with decades of experience in the application of
Lean Six Sigma methodologies to healthcare and HIT
processes. Our driving mission is to help our customers
do more with less, make the best of healthcare available to
all, and in the process improve the quality of care and the
quality of life for providers and patients alike.
Our core areas of expertise include:
- Facilitation of Lean Sigma Healthcare process
improvement projects and mentoring of improvement teams
and team leaders
- Online training and certification in the Lean Sigma
Healthcare methodology
- Assessment of hospital quality improvement organizations
- PCMH and EMR workflow optimization and implementation
project management
- Development and delivery of leading edge training and
certification programs
We are dedicated to serving patients and customers in as
“Lean” a manner as possible and to eliminate your financial
risk all our work is unconditionally guaranteed. Lean
Six Sigma is at the core of the way we live and operate and
you can be sure that your experience with SigmaMed will be one
full of satisfaction and bottom line results. Call or
email us
now for more information or to discuss whether Lean Sigma
Healthcare is the right fit for your short or long-term
improvement undertakings.