(World Congress: Woburn, Massachusetts) -- The World Congress Leadership Summit on Driving Process and Performance Excellence convenes senior executives from hospitals, health systems, medical, and specialty group practices to discuss innovative approaches on process improvement and best practices to improve quality and efficiencies. National lean, Six Sigma, and Baldrige case studies demonstrate how to improve business and service excellence, operational efficiencies and cost performance.

BMG will be conducting a preconference boot camp: “Implementing Lean in a Healthcare Setting: The Tools and Techniques You Need,” on Oct. 24, 2007 The one-day boot camp will showcase how hospitals are using lean concepts to improve their facilities and operations. A certified lean master addresses the fundamental concepts of lean and how hospitals utilize the methodology to decrease their hospital’s ER wait time, improve patient flow, and standardize processes and workflow to reduce waste within best in class institutions.

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