Advanced Healthcare Improvement Training
Build expert-level capability in complex problem solving, systems design, and leading large-scale, sustainable improvement.
Advanced Healthcare Improvement Training
Across this two-phase, 16-week program, learners apply their training to a real process-improvement project within selected value streams. The program concludes with each participant demonstrating a “teach back,” building the skills needed to confidently teach and coach others in your organization.
Delivery Model
This hybrid course is delivered in two phases, allowing learners to Learn, Experience, Apply, and Perform. Content is provided through modern on-demand modules paired with live virtual coaching and support. Total expected learning time is about 84 hours.
Target Candidates
Improvement teams, leaders, and champions.
Cohort Size
Up to 30 people in a cohort, with ideal cohort of 10-30.
Advanced Skills For System Change
This training is for those who need advanced skills to guide system-level change. Learners explore workflow challenges, team and patient touch points, and methods like 5S and mistake proofing. They also learn to align staff goals with organizational aims and coach teams to improve their work.
Master Time and Workflow for Better Efficiency
Understand how time impacts efficiency and why mapping workflows is essential to identify waste, streamline processes, and improve overall performance.
See Care Through the Patient’s Eyes
Gain insight into team roles and patient touch points to improve coordination, enhance the care experience, and strengthen every step of the journey.
Eliminate Waste with the 5S Method
Learn how the 5S framework—Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain—creates organized, efficient workspaces that reduce waste and improve flow.
Find Efficiency in Every Setup
Collaborate with your team to identify setup opportunities that save time, reduce errors, and create smoother workflows across daily operations.
Build Quality with Mistake Proofing
Explore practical mistake-proofing methods that prevent errors before they happen, improving safety, reliability, and quality across every process.
Guide Teams Toward Better Work
Develop the skills to coach teams in continuous improvement, helping them analyze processes, solve problems, and elevate performance every day.
Build Skills to Drive Real Improvement
Through hands-on training and practical application, participants learn to assess current processes, eliminate waste, and lead sustainable change. Each module builds core capabilities in observation, analysis, and leadership—equipping teams to improve quality, safety, and flow.
Foundational Principles
Learn the essential concepts that underpin continuous improvement and build a shared language for organizational change.
Diagnosing the Current State
Discover how to assess current processes to reveal inefficiencies, barriers, and opportunities for improvement.
Integrated Process Analysis
Analyze processes end-to-end to understand handoffs, dependencies, and how different systems work together.
Root Cause Analysis
Go beyond symptoms to uncover the true causes of problems so solutions are effective, lasting, and measurable.
Understanding Patient and Care Team Experience
Gain perspective on care through the eyes of patients and teams to improve quality, safety, and satisfaction.
Studying Time
Examine how time impacts workflow efficiency and identify delays that affect both care delivery and outcomes.
Mapping Value
Visualize the steps that add value for patients to eliminate waste and design processes that flow efficiently.
Analyzing Operator Work
Observe frontline work to understand routines, challenges, and how standardization supports consistency.
Communicating Current State Learnings
Share insights effectively to align teams, guide decision-making, and drive organization-wide improvement.
Build Skills That Drive Results
The LEAP model helps healthcare teams turn learning into action. By combining education, real-world application, and measurable performance, organizations build the capability to improve quality, safety, and efficiency sustainably and at scale.
Learn
Build foundational knowledge through engaging, self-paced lessons.
Experience
Practice new concepts through hands-on, team-based activities.
Apply
Use proven tools to solve real challenges in your own workplace.
Perform
Sustain improvements and measure impact over time.
A Foundation for Lasting Improvement
Gain core knowledge through interactive, self-paced lessons that introduce proven tools and methods for healthcare improvement.
Learning Into Hands-on Understanding
Engage in simulations and team-based exercises that bring improvement principles to life and strengthen practical skills.
Improvement Tools in Real Settings
Translate new knowledge into action by applying lean tools and problem-solving methods to real challenges in your workplace.
Measurable, Sustainable Results
Embed continuous improvement practices into daily work to sustain gains and drive ongoing performance improvement.
Learn Proven Methods to Improve Healthcare
Equip your healthcare leaders and teams with practical improvement skills grounded in VMI methodology. Learn by doing, apply concepts to real work, and build the capability to improve safety, quality, flow, and care delivery.
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