The Lean Healthcare Green Belt Certification program is made up of the following on-line lessons:

1. Understanding Lean Thinking
2. Applying Lean Thinking to Healthcare
3. Lean Healthcare Tools and Practices I: Improving Process Flow
4. Lean Healthcare Tools and Practices II: Reducing Variation and Improving Quality
5. Value Stream Mapping
6. Kaizen
7. 5S
8. Lean and Six Sigma in Healthcare
9. Roadmap to Lean Implementation

Lean Healthcare Green Belt Certification is a 3-month on-line program. Each lesson provides on-line content incorporating real world case study examples of Lean applications, along with useful in-line questions and assessments to enable students track their progress.

The program can be undertaken by individuals through on-line distance learning study or through our customized in-house solution. You receive access to a Learning Management System portal from where you can log in at any time and launch each lesson, take prep exams, view and download on-line resources, and interact with fellow students and experts via a Lean discussion forum. Expert mentoring support via e-mail is also provided from this portal.

To attain certification, participants need to complete one workplace assignment and a final on-line exam. The assignment is worth 50% of the overall certification mark and can have a customized or in-house focus whereby participants target an area within their organization and leverage the Lean tools and practices covered in the program to initiate and/or implement physical improvements.
Having completed their assignment and all of the lessons that make up the program, participants will need to undertake a final on-line exam worth 50% of the overall certification mark.

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