October 10, 2013—Skamania Lodge, in the Columbia River Gorge, is the setting for the 9th Annual Lean Leadership Retreat, Oct. 21-23, hosted by Lean Healthcare West, a CareOregon company.
"Lean" is a method of improving workplace processes while enhancing value to end users. A manufacturing philosophy initially and most famously applied by the automobile manufacturers in Japan, Lean is increasingly applied to non-manufacturing sectors including health care.
Lean Healthcare West has clients in 38 states, and is well known in Oregon. Founder Cindy Jimmerson and her team at Lean Healthcare West have a national reputation for their work assisting hospitals, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities and physician practices to implement Lean methodology. The Annual Lean Leadership Retreat is an opportunity to learn from some of the best in the business, and to share experiences with other professionals.
This is the first Lean Leadership Retreat since Lean Healthcare West became a part of CareOregon. Since 2006, Lean practices have been at the core of CareOregon’s educational programs for process improvement for frontline health care staff, in medical offices and hospitals, as well as its own internal administrative team.
The schedule (see topics and speakers)—Formal presentations each day will conclude early enough to allow the networking that’s a key of the conference.
- Event: 9th Annual Lean Leadership Retreat
- Dates: October 21-23, 2013
- Cost: $1,500
- Location:Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, Wash. (To reserve a room at Skamania Lodge, please call Reservations at: 1-800-221-7117, or book online at the Skamania Lodge website.)
- Register for the 9th Annual Lean Leadership Retreat!
About CareOregon
Formerly the largest managed care organization providing services to Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid) members, CareOregon now is a provider of health plan administrative services to four Oregon Health Plan Coordinated Care Organizations and Oregon's Health CO-OP, as well as operating Medicare Advantage and Medicaid Dental plans. It also provides a range of process-improvement educational programs for organizations and individuals in the health care industry interested in enhancing delivery systems as they adapt to health care reform.
About Lean Healthcare West
Lean Healthcare West is a nationally known provider of workplace improvement and quality improvement for health care. Since 2001, the company has been assisting hospitals, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities and physician practices to implement Lean practices using a course of instruction and hands-on training developed and copyrighted by the company’s founder, Cindy Jimmerson. It offers green belt certification in Lean for health care, has an inventory of recorded webinars, and a program to facilitate incorporating the medical home model into facilities design.
