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Lean Healthcare Certification

Our Lean Healthcare program will teach you to how to lead process improvements in healthcare. Using a combination of conceptual learning and storytelling with dialogues to illustrate concepts, this dynamic course will teach lean strategies, methods, and tools as they apply throughout the health care continuum.  Take this course to become a more dynamic problem solver and Lean thinker.  


Provider approved by the California Board of Nursing, License # CEP16798 for 24 contact hours.

Lean Healthcare Certificate Program

Certified Lean Healthcare Practitioner Course Outline and Information

The lean healthcare training program is self-paced and up to 12 months are allotted to complete it.  Provider approved by the California Board of Nursing, License # CEP16798 for 24 contact hours. For a group quote or for customization, contact us.


Lean Healthcare Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the program, you will be able to:

  • Articulate the key success factors of implementing lean in a health care organization to improve quality and decrease cost of care.
  • Articulate the 5 principles of Lean and their application to healthcare.
  • Understand the Lean Transformation Model from Strategy Deployment to Daily Kaizen
  • Identify 8 types of wastes in health care organizations.
  • Create a Value Stream Map for a clinical and administrative processes in the health care setting.
  • Apply lean principles to create a lean future state and implementation plan using the VSM as a planning tool.
  • Apply key kaizen tools to improve productivity and quality for both clinical and administrative operations.
  • Understand the steps to planning and facilitating a kaizen event.
  • Apply Team Facilitation techniques to facilitate improvement activities.
  • Use the PDCA/PDSA methodology for A-3 problem solving.
  • Use basic problem solving tools including 5 Why's, Fishbone/Cause and Effect Diagram, Process Map, and Pareto Chart.
  • Use the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata for Daily Kaizen.
  • Select appropriate measurement for success.


Lean Healthcare Certificate Topics Covered

  • Lean Healthcare Concepts
  • 7 Wastes
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Operational Stability
  • Standardized Work
  • Leveling Work (Heijunka)
  • 5S Visual Workplace
  • One Piece Flow / Continuous Flow
  • Workcell Concept / Collaborative Care Model
  • Replenishment and Sequential Pull Systems
  • FIFO Flow
  • Mistake Proofing
  • Team Facilitation
  • Five Why's
  • Fishbone Diagram
  • PDCA (Plan Do Check Act) / PDSA (Plan Do Study Act/Adjust)
  • A-3 Problem Solving
  • Six Sigma / DMAIC Process
  • Kaizen Events / Rapid Improvement Events
  • Policy Deployment
  • Lean Metrics
  • Implementation Strategy
  • Lean Culture and Organizational Issues

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