Local medical professionals attend LEAN Healthcare Certificate program

CONCORD — The New Hampshire Hospital Association congratulates the recent graduates of the LEAN Healthcare Certificate program, a comprehensive continuous improvement course for healthcare professionals, hosted by the NHHA in partnership with Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, and conducted by GBMP, a leading resource for Continuous Improvement education and facilitation.

The LEAN Training in Healthcare Certificate program graduated 21 recipients from hospitals across the state of New Hampshire, who completed the eight-day course where they learned best practices to address the challenges facing healthcare professionals. The LEAN Training program, is structured where the content is delivered in a combination of classroom and tacit learning, so that participants learn the critical steps they can take to assure dramatic, continuing improvements.

Local professionals ompleting the certificate program were Denise Schepis, LRGHealthcare; Jamie LaRoche, LRGHealthcare; Kera Favorite, Huggins Hospital; Kim Slattery, LRGHealthcare; and, Megan Varhegyi, Huggins Hospital.

The learn-by-doing method prepares students to return to their own workplace with the confidence to implement continuous improvement methodologies. The program provides participants from hospitals across the state with the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of continuous improvement in a classroom setting, and then as teams, apply the principles and tools in an actual healthcare process to create positive change within their own healthcare organizations.