As Kettering Health continues to define its management systems and frameworks, the system is adding Lean Six Sigma to its Improvement Systems. Building on the framework of the Certified Process Excellence Leader (CPEL), this new program will add an internationally standardized framework to aid in the journey towards uniformity and excellence.
Lean Six Sigma is a strategy with a major focus on employee knowledge, contributions, and participation. Lean Six Sigma uses methods and tools to improve productivity, quality, and lead time through the discovery and elimination of productivity limitations such as variability, waste, and overburden.
In an innovative new partnership, Kettering Health and Kettering College will partner together with the International Association of Six Sigma Certifications (IASSC) so that each participant can not only receive college credit, CMEs, and CEUs, but also an internationally recognized certification that can help build the participants resume in additional to on-the-job skills.
A Beta Test will launch for the Yellow Belt Certification with a select group of leaders on Febraury 21 in preparation for its official launch at Kettering College. Kettering College intends to utilize the program in their Bachelor of Health Care Management and Bachelor of Health Science students enrolled at Kettering College starting this fall with hopes to expand the program to all students and employees.
“As we look to the future of Kettering Health, this is an exciting step in our journey towards uniformity,” said Sharlet Briggs, president of Kettering Health Main Campus. “The skill sets brought by Lean Six Sigma are crucial towards strategic improvement initiatives. The Yellow Belt training is the first step towards providing a standard approach around improvement and a common language which we can use to communicate.”
With launch of the Yellow Belt program, the vision will be to add Green and Black Belt trainings in the future. Each belt level will have commensurate project work and testing to achieve certification.
“Our patients deserve consistent levels of experience and care across the system,” said Richard Manchur, president of Kettering Health Dayton. “Providing a comparable experience for our patients requires our leaders to have access to a toolbox of skills producing processes for excellence in care. This is where Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt enters the picture.”
“To me, the Yellow Belt training will provide a common vocabulary around improving the way we provide care while laying out the foundation for systematic improvement,” said Richard.
More information will come from Process Excellence in the coming months as this initiative rolls out on how you can be involved.
Questions? Contact Jill Waters, Director of Process Excellence at 937-762-1650