Six Sigma is not just for manufacturing. It is widely used in healthcare and can literally help save people's lives.
For example, error reduction is one of the main six sigma methods to improving Healthcare. You can use root cause analysis to find out why error are occurring in things like medication delivery or surgical infection exposure.
Overall, Six Sigma is focused on quality. This is why places like the Mayo Clinic have implemented Six Sigma across all levels of their hospitals, in order to create a culture of quality. This can improve everything from wait times in the ER to life or death patient outcomes in ICU. That's what Six Sigma can do for your Healthcare organization.
Some real and tangible examples of this are in the following case studies:
At Yale-New Haven Medical Center, the surgical ICU had issues with bloodstream infections post-surgery. By using Six Sigma methodologies, they reduced their rate of infections by a whopping 75%.
Down at North Mississippi Medical Center there was a desire to reduce errors in prescription instructions. Six Sigma helped them reduce those errors by 50%.
Lastly, at Valley Baptist Health System, they wanted to reduce their surgery cycle times, and we know Six Sigma methods are great for reducing cycle times. How good? The system was able to help them reduce cycle times, allowing them to handle an additional 1,100 surgical cases per year!
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