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LEAN Health Care Seminar and Training Opportunities

How to Implement LEAN in Healthcare - October 7 - 9, 2008

This hands-on, three-day course provides instruction on how to enhance care, improve service, decrease costs - and most importantly, place the patient at the center utilizing the AveraOpEx 15-Step LEAN Deployment Model. It is designed for those tasked with implementing process improvements who are either just getting started or looking for the system and tools to successfully implement LEAN. The course focuses on practical healthcare implementations with examples throughout. Learn more about this unique opportunity!

Where: Avera McKennan Education Center, Sioux Falls, SD
When: October 7 - 9, 2008
March 3 - 5, 2009
June 16 - 18, 2009
Cost: $2,395 with group and package pricing available. Learn more

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Make LEAN Work for You - November 6 & 7, 2008

"Make LEAN Work for You" is a unique two-day experience at an innovative hospital implementing LEAN principles. See LEAN successes in a working hospital and learn about the tools, experience, and leadership needed to put LEAN principles to work within your organization.

Learn how LEAN applies to healthcare

  • Hear case studies and results from LEAN implementation
  • Tour departments that have implemented LEAN
  • Visit with front-line staff – talk to the people that made it happen

Register Today Online:   Registration Form
Seminar Agenda:  View and print the seminar agenda
Where:  Avera McKennan Education Center, Sioux Falls, SD
When:  November 6 & 7, 2008
April 30 & May 1, 2009
July 16 & 17, 2009
Cost:  $1,000

What do seminar attendees think?

“The seminar provides a complete visualization of LEAN Thinking in Healthcare. Leaders will learn foundational concepts, tools and applications, and required behavioral change for successful transformation to Lean. A must for all healthcare organizations contemplating Lean!”

Team Leader - Performance Improvement, Quality, Safety and Risk – Heartland Health – St. Joseph, MO

"Avera McKennan is a living, breathing model of LEAN.  AveraOpEx has managed to bring LEAN concepts from theory to real life.  I was so inspired; I sent a letter and the DVD from the seminar to our CEO as soon as I returned.  The potential for improvement is palpable, and every organization has the capacity to transform into a patient focused center of excellence."

Laboratory Director – Mission Hospitals – Asheville, NC

Additional AveraOpEx Offerings

One-Day Site Visit

Site visits can be tailored to meet your organization's specific needs.

Conference Call with Avera McKennan Executive Leadership

We will arrange a one-hour conference call for your leadership with our CEO, COO, or CFO

LEAN Health Care Training Opportunities

AveraOpEx System Overview

  • This four-hour session will include an introduction to The AveraOpEx System and how it has benefited other facilities. You will learn the implementation strategies and methodologies that have been developed over years of successful implementations.

Champion Training

  • This one-day session will give leaders the tools and information to help make implementations successful.

Supervisor / Manager Training

  • This two-day session will help prepare managers and supervisors to lead frontline staff through the changes that result from implementations. This training is included with full scale implementations; however, it can be offered by itself.

AveraOpEx Team Training

  • This session is five days of intense training for those on the implementation team. Team members will learn concepts, principles, analysis software, techniques, problem solving, and project management skills that will be vital both during and after implementation.

LEAN Leadership Development

  • This program is developed to help your organization develop LEAN Leaders from within. The training is completely customized to meet your organization's needs.
  • Learn more about LEAN Leader Training
To arrange any of the above offerings please contact the AveraOpEx Coordinator at 888.239.7110.

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AveraOpEx has the hands-on experience you need to improve your service and processes. We provide real solutions developed in an existing hospital environment to help you reduce cost, decrease waiting time and increase staff efficiency.

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