Lean in Healthcare Certification – Green Belt

Understand Lean Thinking and how Lean practices reduce waste and improve value for patients.

Overview

Healthcare systems are strengthening how care flows across teams and settings to improve patient experience and outcomes. Lean Thinking offers a disciplined approach to redesign processes, reduce delays and rework, and release time for higher-value care.

This programme equips participants with core Lean principles and practical tools used in healthcare improvement, including identifying waste, mapping workflows, testing changes and sustaining gains.

Learning is delivered through blended instruction, guided exercises and real-world case studies, with emphasis on application in participants’ own organisations.

To be certified Green Belt, participants are required to demonstrate the application of lean thinking and solutioning in the identified project and the ability to facilitate lean projects.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Understand Lean Thinking frameworks and concepts that assist in designing solutions to hospital operational functions. For example, using the knowledge of Lean Thinking to identify and differentiate value from waste in healthcare processes.
  2. Understand the specific elements that influence hospital/ clinics/ laboratories workflows and determine the ideal state for healthcare operations.
  3. Enhance problem-solving skills using a proven methodology, to identify root causes of pain-points faced by both patients and healthcare workers.
  4. Conduct basic analysis and review of current challenges (through real-life case studies) to improve patients’ experience and health outcomes.
  5. Able to identify and propose improvement projects to the hospital processes and operations using various interventions (e.g. simplifying complex processes, technology enablers, automation, etc).
  6. Be equipped with the right mindset and tools to drive team-based solutioning to improve productivity and efficiency.
  7. Demonstrate Lean Thinking skills through application in a real-life project.
  8. Perform the role of a Lean Facilitator for any improvement projects.

Course Outline

  1. Lean Thinking Frameworks & Concepts
  2. Overview of the various Tools, why use them and when to use them
  3. Practical Approaches for improving patient experience and health outcomes
  4. Real-life Case Studies from hospitals in Asia Pacific region.
  5. Breakout Group Activities & Role Play: Each participant will be assigned a healthcare worker role and be involved in a simulated hospital’s operations.
  6. Practice sessions as a Lean Facilitator.
  7. Application through Projects

Target Audience

  • Professionals, managers, and executives (PMEs) transitioning into the healthcare sector
  • Healthcare professionals who are currently in, or moving into, management and leadership roles
  • Minimum 5 years of work experience (preferred)
  • Diploma or bachelor’s degree (preferred)

Certification

Upon completion of the course, the participants will be awarded the following

  1. HMI Institute’s Cert of Completion (COC)
  2. Lean in Healthcare Green Belt Certification
    • Participants that met the minimum attendance and obtain at least 60% correct for Written Exam,
    • Participants are required to identify an improvement project and do a presentation to demonstrate the application of lean thinking and solutioning in the identified project,
    • Participants demonstrate the ability to facilitate lean projects.

Course Date & Registration

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Course Duration

5 Days (1 day per week for 5 weeks)

Course Venue

HMI Institute

Course Fee

SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) is providing course fee funding to the healthcare in-service staff.

  1. Up to 70% course fee subsidy for Singaporean aged 21-39 & SPR 21 years and above.
  2. Up to 90% course fee subsidy for Singaporean aged 40 & above.
  3. Up to 90% course fee subsidy for all staff (Singaporean & SPR) under the Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) for SME employers.

Full Course Fee

$980.00 (before GST)

Baseline Subsidy

(Non-SME SC/SPR <40 y/o)

Fee Payable After SSG 70% Subsidy

$320.46 (including 9% GST)

Enhanced Subsidy

(All SME SC/SPR + Non SME SC/SPR >39 y/o)

Fee Payable After SSG 90% Subsidy

$106.82 (including 9% GST)

*As per SSG’s policy, the GST payable is calculated based on prevailing rates of 9% after the baseline funding subsidy of 70%.

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