Lean and Six Sigma Healthcare Education

Lean Healthcare

A five-day program in which participants learn how to apply lean concepts and tools of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS) to healthcare enterprises including hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, clinics, laboratories, and administrative and other health services.

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Lean Supply Chain for Healthcare

This 4-1/2-day program teaches participants how to apply Lean thinking to supply chain operations in a healthcare setting. It draws upon years of experience in successful Lean training by U-M faculty and uses case studies to provide real-world examples.

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Six Sigma Green Belt Healthcare

This online program focuses the power of Six Sigma Green Belt training on healthcare applications. Participants will learn how to identify, frame, and effectively solve quality problems in healthcare organizations at the Green Belt skill level.

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Toyota Kata: Building Competitive
Advantage with Lean

Developing a culture of continuous improvement and innovation is the responsibility of leaders and managers. They do this by having everyone throughout the company practice behavior patterns called kata that generate and support this culture and skills. This new way of managing teaches everyone how to work through unpredictable obstacles and achieve new levels of performance and results, again and again, across the entire company.

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Launch A Lean Six Sigma
Initiative in Your
Healthcare Organization

Lean and Six Sigma principles yield big dividends when implemented throughout the entire healthcare management and delivery process.

With a range of program offerings in both on-campus short course and online formats, the University of Michigan has training opportunities available for busy healthcare professionals ready to make a difference in their organizations.

Michigan Interdisciplinary
and Professional Engineering (InterPro)

Part of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, InterPro develops and delivers professional short courses and academic programs and services that enable engineers, managers, and technical professionals to be more effective, productive, and competitive. The University of Michigan Health System and InterPro have teamed up to develop programs that address ways to decrease healthcare costs while increasing the quality of patient care.

University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan