Course Outline:

This course follows the same basic agenda as our 5S and Workplace Organization training only with the focus on the Healthcare environment.

The training will be a combination of theory and practical activities of 5S & Workplace Organization.

• 5S Lean Healthcare Introduction
• 5S & How it Contributes to a culture of Continuous Improvement
• Why 5S?
• How does 5S eliminate the 7 Wastes in a Healthcare organization?
• 5S  as a foundation for Lean Healthcare
• 5S Step-by-Step
• SORT Red Tag practice, what is needed right now and what is not.
• STRAIGHTEN A place for everything and everything in its place
• SWEEP  Both physical and visual, removing any abnormalities, sources of backsliding, clutter, or poor visibility. 
• STANDARDIZE Establishing “what good looks like” and rules for upkeep. 
• SELF-DISCIPLINE Continuous 5S

5S Team Activities

• 5S Evaluation Walk
• Visual Management
• Maintaining 5S Worksheets

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, you will demonstrate the ability to:

• Understand the meaning and importance of applying 5S in your own healthcare organization and its processes and departments
• Understand the importance of your own responsibilities in the 5S process
• Understand how 5S can improve your own workplace and the organization’s results as a whole.
• Lead and participate in any 5S activity in any place in the healthcare organization
• Understand the Current State of 5S of your organization

Benefits:

You will be able to:

• Confidently apply the 5S concept within your organization
• Involve and teach these concepts with your organization
• Develop a favorable environment to do continuous improvement activities
• Reduce human errors
• Eliminate the waste of searching
• Better utilized avaliable work space
• Increase patient and staff satisfaction 

Who Should Attend:

This course is designed to provide practical knowledge and tools to improve healthcare operations and to aid in initializing your Lean healthcare efforts.  The target audience includes:

• healthcare executives
• physicians
• nurses
• clinical staff
• industrial and management engineers
• laboratory and specialized healthcare services 
• insurance company staff
• pharmaceutical staff
• support services staff

  Duration:

  Overview Session 1 Day

  Workshop Sessions 2-5 Days