Six Sigma Training

The Six Sigma strategy drives a relentless focus upon eliminating errors in processes. Healthcare organizations face not only liability and compliance risk due to the many errors being generated every day, but additionally, labor inefficiencies, which rise dramatically as a result of repetitious inspection and rework.

Studies indicate that up to 98,000 patients die annually due to medical errors. Other Studies show that the probability of preparing an error-free healthcare claim, with no rework required, is as low as 5% for most healthcare providers. Rework in all departments leads to a negative impact on patient care by jeopardizing clinical care, increasing patient wait times, decreasing facility throughput and presenting a risk to overall financial viability.

Our Six Sigma training program addresses these issues by equipping your associates with the know-how to eliminate the creation of errors in the first place. Using a unique data driven approach, our Six Sigma training program integrates process improvement tools and statistically based methods to identify and eliminate variation in processes.

While the origin of Six Sigma can be found in the electronics and automotive industries, Six Sigma has been adapted to all business environments. At Healthcare Excellence Institute we are proud to offer a dedicated Six Sigma for Healthcare program.

All Six Sigma Practitioner Training such as Green Belt and Black Belt Training is delivered in an apprenticeship or "residency" approach. Practitioners are trained and immediately apply the new knowledge to projects assigned by leadership. Thus the training not only enhances the skill set in the organization, but simultaneously drives results via the project work.

Below please find some example results that our Six Sigma training for Healthcare program will deliver:

• Medication error reduction
• Improved clinical patient monitoring
• ED diversion status reduction
• Ancillary results turnaround time reduction
• Improved staffing models
• Procedure charging error and omission reduction
• Supplies charging error and omission reduction
• Billing error reduction
• Denial reduction

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