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The 5y’s of perfect patient care

The 5 Y’s for perfect patient care. On of the greatest common sense tools of Lean is the (5Y) analysis.  This tool simply ask’s Y (why)  5 times. The following is a result of me asking for the 5Y’s for perfect patient care .

Reduce 30 day Readmission for Congestive Heart Failure

Reduce 30 day readmission for Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), once the patient leaves the hospital the 6SigmaTek way. The following steps are what I personally used to reduce my father’s 30-day readmission rate for CHF. My father has CHF, diabetes, high blood pressure, he has to take two types of dialysis six days a week, […]

Decrease ER wait times – admit the 6SigmaTek way.

How to decrease wait times from your Emergency Department to patient discharge or admit the 6SigmaTek way. If your hospital is experiencing long length of stay, patients leaving without being seen, patients leaving against medical advise? Here is our high level approach. 1. Provide 6sigmaTek with one year of ED data from your EMR. 2. From your […]