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PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) – Navy Medicine Operational Training Center (NMOTC) recently launched Lean Six Sigma (LSS) courses for Navy Medicine Sailors and civilians in the Pensacola, Florida, area.
LSS is a methodology that implements a team effort to improve efficiency by breaking down potential variables in a process to their smallest increments and working to reduce or eliminate any unnecessary steps or frivolous products.
Navy Medicine adopted LSS at patient care and training facilities around 2006. Dedicated resources for LSS training were provided for the Pensacola training region for the first time in 2017.
Each step in the path to mastering LSS is referred to by a different colored “belt,” similar to many forms of martial arts. LSS instructors will often refer to their students as “Ninjas” while those students are on the road to the final and grandest of LSS prestige, the “Master Black Belt.”
Training begins with a White Belt introductory course, which is an orientation describing LSS and its potential uses in Navy Medicine. LSS students may then advance to a Yellow Belt course, which takes the lessons learned in the White Belt course to a new depth of understanding.
The next segment in training is the “Green Belt” course. NMOTC’s LSS Master Black Belt, Will Hernandez, recently wrapped up overseeing a week-long Green Belt course, which he described as a “human problem-solving approach in systematic fashion that changes the inclination of placing blame and redirects focus to the LSS process.”
After the week-long course, students remain working on at least two Green Belt projects of their choosing over the course of a year. The projects must be approved and regularly briefed and updated in order to be successful.
“One of my projects I am working on getting approved is NMOTC’s check-in/check-out process,” said Yeoman 2nd Class Dylan Greene from NMOTC headquarters. “I think it has a lot of potential to be streamlined and overall make the process and paperwork run more smoothly.”
After a year of successful Green Belt projects, students can move on to the Black Belt course, which can be a valuable title to hold, especially in the civilian sector.
“Black Belt is highly sought after and is a sound methodology of looking at organizations and highlighting their potential opportunities,” said Hernandez. “With this foundation, this is probably the strongest and most direct link of establishing a high-reliability organization.”
By expanding and strengthening these LSS partnerships, Navy Medicine can be given the opportunity to identify and remove barriers, and produce a strategic framework, falling directly in line with the Navy Surgeon General’s emphasis on partnerships.
NMOTC is part of a health care network of Navy medical professionals around the world who provide high-quality health care to more than one million eligible beneficiaries. Navy Medicine personnel deploy with Sailors and Marines worldwide, providing critical mission support aboard ships, in the air, under the sea, and on the battlefield.
| Date Taken: | 05.01.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 05.01.2018 13:37 |
| Story ID: | 275238 |
| Location: | PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, US |
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