It’s no secret that healthcare providers are under extreme pressure to reduce costs while simultaneously improving quality of care and patient safety.

Given these pressures, Lean Six Sigma (a proven method for reducing waste and defects in organization processes) seems like an obvious high-payoff strategy for hospitals and other primary and secondary healthcare providers. However, while the interest level in Lean Six Sigma has grown rapidly, the adoption rate has not kept pace.

We believe that healthcare organizations have largely exercised prudent judgment in not immediately jumping on the Lean Six Sigma bandwagon. Staffing and budget constraints make conventional approaches to deploying Lean Six Sigma a risky proposition for most healthcare providers. (Read more from our whitepaper, Six Sigma Without the Tears, on the benefits and pitfalls of Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare.)

Leap Technologies has developed and tested two innovative solutions to help resource-constrained organizations reap the benefits of Lean Six Sigma faster with much lower upfront investments in training and infrastructure development. Explore the Action Workout and Rapid Lean Six Sigma sections of our website (located on the left column menu) to learn more about these two innovative pathways to accelerated results.

Click on the right column menu to review brief case files on applications of these tools in leading healthcare provider organizations.