Lean Six Sigma Healthcare Certification Program
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Earn a Certified Green or Black Belt
Online & Asynchronous
The Lean Six Sigma certification program provides attendees with the required skills and competencies to increase efficiency and decrease waste. Attendees will learn strategies to overcome barriers and implement best practices in the real-world environment.
What Does This Program Include?
- The program includes everything you need to become a certified Green Belt or Black Belt. We mentor you and you conduct a project in your organization and it is all online.
- The online certification program culminates in a certification exam.
- To become a certified Green Belt takes six months and completion of one project. To become a certified Black Belt takes twelve months and completion of two projects.
- Once you are certified by Jefferson, we do not require recertification. If you have been certified by another group and require recertification, we can recertify you. You will not need to recertify again after you have taken our program.
- Registration discounts are available to partner organizations and Jefferson employees. If you have taken Operational Excellence Boot Camp within the past two years, you qualify for additional discounts.
Contact Mary Cooper, MD for more information.
Why Lean Six Sigma?
Value-based reimbursement and consumer-driven markets serve as a catalyst for institutional and industry-wide change. Providers, especially healthcare delivery systems, are tasked with not only doing more with less, but doing things better as well. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive labor shortages, supply chain disruption, and other factors negatively impacting the healthcare industry. Lean Six Sigma addresses these issues by reducing non-value added costs and increasing quality through proven performance improvement methodologies. Lean Six Sigma creates highly effective problem solvers with tactical and leadership skills to develop and implement solutions.
Objectives
- Identify health care tools to transform healthcare operations
- Design and implement the DMAIC model to drive performance improvement strategies at the system and process level
- Leverage data analysis to prioritize recommendations for healthcare performance improvement initiatives
- Execute rapid improvements to ensure success and sustainability
- Develop a strategic, systematic approach for evaluating and addressing operational opportunities for improvement in your care setting
- Integrate quality, safety, and transformation/ change management tools to promote efficiency
- Identify approaches for strategic execution of high priority opportunities
- Distinguish and leverage key elements of leadership
- Develop high-performing teams
Who Should Attend?
Clinical and operational leaders responsible for service delivery at their healthcare organizations: physicians, nurses, therapists, healthcare administrators, service line leaders, health IT specialists and analysts, integrated delivery system administrators and others.
Enrollment & Registration
Enrollment will take place for Spring, Fall, and Winter cohorts. Register below the course that you plan to attend.
About Certification Requirements
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training Curriculum
| Title | Description | Estimated Time |
| Interactive eLearning | Jefferson College of Population Health - Fundamentals of Six Sigma DMAIC OPX 550 |
60 hours |
| Virtual Study Hall Sessions | Live virtual sessions to augment eLearning content. 5 total sessions, 2 hours each (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) | 10 hours |
| Operational Excellence Boot Camp | Two day OPX Boot Camp teaches the fundamentals of Lean Approaches to Improvement | 16 hours |
| Certification Exam | Approximately 100 questions | 3 hours |
| LSS Project | 1 Project let by LSSGB candidate. Project includes coaching/mentorship by Jefferson Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt with presentation to JCPH certification committee | 6 months |
Fee: $ 7500
Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
| Title | Description | Estimated Time |
| Interactive eLearning | Jefferson College of Population Health - Fundamentals of Six Sigma DMAIC OPX 551 |
120 hours |
| Virtual Study Halls | Live virtual sessions to augment eLearning content. 5 total sessions, 2 hours each (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) | 10 hours |
| Operational Excellence Boot Camp | Two day OPX Boot Camp teaches the fundamentals of Lean Approaches to Improvement | 16 hours |
| Advanced Operational Excellence Academy | Advanced Operational Excellence Boot Camp teaches more complex Lean Approaches to Improvement. | 16 hours |
| Certification Exam | Approximately 120 questions | 4 hours |
| LSS Project | 2 Projects led by LSSGB candidate. Project includes coaching/mentorship by Jefferson Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with final presentation to the JCPH Certification Committee. |
12-15 months |
Fee: $11,000
About Recertification Requirements
JCPH also offers recertification options for candidates who were previously certified through another program.
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB) Recertification
| Interactive eLearning | Jefferson College of Population Health - Fundamentals of Six Sigma DMAIC OPX 550 |
60 hours |
| Virtual Study Halls | Virtual live sessions to augment eLearning content: 5 total sessions (2hours each): Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control | 10 hours |
| Operational Excellence Boot Camp | Two Day Fundamentals of Lean Approaches to Improvement teaches the fundamentals of Lean Approaches to Improvement | 16 hours |
| Online Certification Exam | 100 questions | 3 hours |
| Project Review | Submission and presentation of prior LSS project (A3) from certification in another program. JCPH Certification Committee reviews to identify focus areas to demonstrate competency for recertification. | 3-6 months |
Fee: $ 4500
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB) Recertification
| Interactive eLearning | Jefferson College of Population Health - Advanced Fundamentals of Six Sigma OPX 550 Advanced Six Sigma DMAIC OPX 551 |
80 hours |
| Virtual Study Halls | Live virtual sessions to augment eLearning content: 5 total sessions (2 hours each): Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control | 10 hours |
| Operational Excellence Boot Camp | Two Day Boot Camp teaches the Fundamentals of Lean Approaches to Improvement | 16 hours |
| Advanced Operational Excellence Boot Camp | Two Day Advanced OPX Boot Camp teaches more complex Lean Approaches to Improvement | 16 hours |
| Online Certification Exam | 120 questions | 4 hours |
| Project Review | Submission and presentation of two prior LSS projects (A3), reports from certification in another program. Must demonstrate DOE or Regression or Hypothesis, or Process Simulation. JCPH Certification Committee reviews to identify focus areas to demonstrate competency for recertification. | 3-6 months |
Fee: $6500
Competencies and Skill Sets Covered
Based on the National Center for Health Leadership (NCHL) Competency Model.
- Analytical Thinking
- Process Management
- Innovative Thinking
- Performance Measurement
- Project Management
- Change Leadership
- Self-Development
- Organizational Awareness (Systems-Thinking)
Course Directors
Shane Flickinger, MHA, FACHE, CLSSBB, is Vice President of Operations of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (TJUH) and Associate Director of the Operational Excellence Program at JCPH, which he co-founded. He is responsible for leading and managing a portfolio of programs and services across all sites of service within the TJUH and across the entire continuum of care. Shane was previously the Director of the Center for Operational Resource Efficiency (CORE), a command center leveraging people, actions and analytics to drive care coordination, quality and safety, and operational excellence. Shane holds a certification as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He is also a trained Baldrige Examiner through Pennsylvania’s performance excellence program and is credentialed as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Michael Anderson, MSIS, CLSSMBB is the Assistant Program Director of the Operational Excellence program at JCPH. He is a cutting-edge visionary leader with more than 20 years of expertise in strategic planning, market development, new service initiatives, financial analysis, and fiscal management within the healthcare industry. Michael is the director of operations at Jefferson Methodist Hospital. In this role, he is responsible to provide oversight and consultation for the execution of initiatives within quality/safety, patient satisfaction, and finance and to devise efficiency strategies and quality control improvement plans conducive to growth and profitability. Prior to his role at Jefferson, he was the Associate Director for Clinical Effectiveness & Quality Improvement at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Michael holds a certification in (CSSMBB) Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and (PM) Project Management.
Questions regarding this program can be directed to Mary Cooper, MD.