Lean Six Sigma Black Belt for Healthcare – Blended Format

Who Should Attend

Hospital administrators, Risk Management, Nurse Managers, Management Engineering, QI/QA Directors and their staff, Planning Managers, IT, Clinic Managers, Quality professionals wishing to enter the healthcare industry and want Six Sigma training/credentials, and Physicians involved with or leading quality improvement efforts.

Learning Outcomes

• Execute Six Sigma DMAIC methodology.
• Compute and apply statistical techniques and analysis to characterize and optimize processes.
• Identify and eliminate dominant process variation sources.
• Design, simulate and execute experiments that depict validated improvement.
• Plan and implement control plans to maximize gains.
• Prepare and present projects to colleagues and management.
• Lead teams in applying Lean concepts and the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology to attack waste.
• Prioritize improvement activities for the greatest organizational impact.
• Define improvement projects to satisfy the customer.
• Measure inputs and outputs to provide meaningful data.
• Analyze data to identify the root cause of variability, including the use of designed experiments.
• Improve processes to reduce variability.
• Control the process to prevent backsliding and consolidate the gains.

Related ASQ Body of Knowledge: Six Sigma Black Belt

Format

This is a blended course consisting of four components.

1. Real-time, instructor-led virtual sessions
2. Audiocasts
   • Computer or MP3 player required
3. Face-to-face instruction
   • Three-day class in Milwaukee, WI
4. Self-paced, independently completed Web-based training
   • Computer access required. Media components designed to consume minimal bandwidth and not blocked by most firewalls.

Prerequisites

• Intermediate-level familiarity with laptop computers.
• Basic college-level algebra (helpful for statistics applications)
• This course requires the use of Design-Ease Software from MoreSteam.com, and is included in the course fee. Customers located outside of the U.S. will need to pay any local customs duties or taxes on the Design-Ease software and book, which have a value of approximately $600.

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