SELP 696 Project in Healthcare

3 semester hours

This course is intended to “teach by doing.” Using the knowledge from SELP 535, students perform comprehensive Lean improvements in their areas of work. Students as a team, together with the instructor, begin with Gemba walks and waste walks through their work areas, then perform in-class detailed Value Stream Maps of the Current and Future States, identifying and eliminating wastes, implementing the Lean process, and analyzing the results. Individual projects with intensive team cooperation. Comprehensive final presentations. Students are expected to be familiar with Visio software or equivalent for drawing VS maps. One full day per week of contact time. This course is available only to Certificate in Lean Healthcare students.

Prerequisite: SELP 535 .