Admission Requirements

• Application to Graduate Admissions and a $50 application fee. To apply on-line, visit http://graduate.lmu.edu.
• B.S. or B.A. from an accredited university program
• Undergraduate transcript
• Two years’ work experience in healthcare environment
• Two letters of recommendation from employers (one current) or former professors.

Promising applicants who do not satisfy these requirements will be considered for conditional admission and, when so admitted, must demonstrate satisfactory performance during their first year in the program.

Graduation Requirements

Completion of the following three courses (9 semester hours):

• SELP 535 Lean Healthcare  3 semester hours
• SELP 635 Advanced Lean Management of Healthcare  3 semester hours
• SELP 696 Project in Healthcare  3 semester hours

The overall minimum GPA required for award of the Certificate is 2.7; the minimum grade in the 535 course is B, and the minimum grade in the 600-level courses is C.

Schedule

The SELP 535  course is offered in the Second Summer session, meeting twice a week for 3.5 hours. The times and days are decided jointly by the instructor and the students. The course may be offered in class or online, depending on the class preference. The online student may take the course while sitting at his/her computer at work or home.

SELP 696  is a Project course offered in the Fall and Spring semester. It involves one day per week for about 5 hours. During the first part of the course students and the instructor visit each student workplace and perform Gemba walks looking for wastes and opportunities to improve operations. The second part of the course involves 6-hr meetings either at LMU or at the place of work of the student(s) developing the Lean improvements. All students work as a team benefitting from cross-learning.

The third course SELP 635  meets in the Fall semester one day per week for 3 hours. Other schedules for that course are possible, including online.