Chris Dillinger

Sheri,
We are now investigating this as a potential green belt project. Did you work this project? Any lessons learned? Any luck with benchmarking?

Sheri,
I have some information from an acute care hospital in Ohio. Annual hospital stats are: 56,000 patient days, excluding nursery; 4,300 deliveries; 13,700 admissions; and 180,000 outpatient visits.
The data is somewhat dated but I hope it is helpful.
2000  51 incidents  10 were paid out at $1,444 total
2001 36 incidents   9 were paid at…[Read more]

Sai,
Six Sigma applications are becoming more common in clinical biology areas and healthcare. I work for Mount Carmel Health. We have deployed Six Sima as our formal toolbox to permanently solve the business processes that challenge our healthcare system. The opportunitinies are vast. BMG is the company that helped with our training and…[Read more]

Sai,
Six Sigma applications are becoming more common in clinical biology areas and healthcare. I work for Mount Carmel Health. We have deployed Six Sima as our formal toolbox to permanently solve the business processes that challenge our healthcare system. The opportunitinies are vast. BMG is the company that helped with our training and…[Read more]

Thank you for your input. We are going to try calculating average cost of treatment per day. It is amazing at times how data poor we are in such a data rich environment as healthcare.

Thank you for your input. We are going to try calculating average cost of treatment per day. It is amazing at times how data poor we are in such a data rich environment as healthcare.