(NOVACES: New Orleans) -- The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery recently presented a contract to NOVACES to implement lean Six Sigma throughout the Navy Medical Logistics Command.

As a provider of business process improvement methodologies, NOVACES will guide the implementation of a change in management program across all organizational levels of Navy medicine’s four major Echelon III Commands. Initial efforts will focus on: Navy Medicine East, Portsmouth, Virginia; Navy Medicine National Capital Area, Bethesda, Maryland; Navy Medicine West, San Diego, California; and Navy Medicine Support Command, Jacksonville, Florida.

The program represents the continuation of two years of aggressive transformation effort by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to evaluate and enhance Navy Medicine’s business process and improve patient health care. This phase of the lean Six Sigma implementation plan represents the next step to aligning the Echelon III Commands to a culture of continuous process improvement comprising a disciplined framework to raise the efficiency of health care delivery while improving its quality.

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