Lean Six Sigma
Green Belt for Healthcare
Specialization
Reduce Process Errors and Improve the Quality of Patient Care
Help Enhance the Way Your Healthcare Organization Operates
What would your healthcare organization look like if medical errors were reduced by 90%, turnaround times for laboratory results increased by 75%, or if patient wait times for surgical procedures were shortened from months to days? How would your work culture change if the average length of patient stay decreased by 60%, or if hospital readmission rates declined by 40%?
Throughout the 100% online Lean Six Sigma Green Belt for Healthcare Certificate through Emory Continuing Education (ECE), you'll watch engaging video lectures and complete assignments designed to help you make your operations safer, more reliable, more efficient and less error prone. During the 7-week course (12 weeks of access), you'll explore how the data-driven tools and techniques of Lean Six Sigma can lead to increased cost savings, better bottom-line results, and improved patient satisfaction. Included in the course are seven (7) 90-minute live sessions with your instructor, who is an expert in healthcare Lean Six Sigma and can help answer any questions about the course material.
Program Outcomes
Upon your successful completion of the Green Belt for Healthcare course, you will be able to:
- Identify and charter potential Lean Six Sigma projects consistent with healthcare organizational needs
- Execute a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt healthcare project through all five DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, control) phases
- Assess appropriate Lean Six Sigma tools during the execution of a Green Belt healthcare project, and apply the right tool at the right time
- Explain how healthcare operations can use Minitab to analyze data and to verify and validate root cause and associated solutions
- Demonstrate the knowledge required to successfully pass the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification examination offered online through ECE at no additional cost
What You Will Learn
Learn the core functions of a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt practitioner and how various process improvement tools and concepts apply to healthcare.
- The 5 phases of DMAIC methodology
- Identifying a Lean Six Sigma healthcare project opportunity
- Finding the root cause of a problem
- Hypothesis testing
- Selecting the best solutions
- Sustainability
Who Should Register?
When healthcare organizations implement Lean Six Sigma effectively, service quality and patient safety outcomes are impacted immediately, and work processes become more efficient and streamlined.
If you are interested in learning the essentials of Lean Six Sigma to reduce wasteful spending and process inefficiencies and/or aspire to implement meaningful change in a healthcare role, advancing your education through Green Belt for Healthcare training is a good first step.
Individuals who have completed any level of Six Sigma belt training earn nearly $12,000 more on average than those without any Six Sigma education*.
Certificate Overview
7 Weeks
60 Hours
$2,695
Learn to apply Lean Six Sigma training in any industry.
Why Emory?
- Emory is nationally recognized for its academic excellence
- Live instructor-led virtual class sessions offered each week
- Courses taught by industry practitioners
- The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification exam is administered within the course at no additional cost
- Students who successfully complete the course will receive a digital certificate of completion and earn a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt for Healthcare certificate badge through ECE
