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 to and implement best practices in the real-world environment.

This program is online and asynchronous.

What Does This Program Include?

• The program includes everything you need to become a certified green 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.
• 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

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

About Certification Requirements

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training Certification

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.

Enrollment will take place for May, September, and January cohorts.