Lean Six Sigma for Child and Youth Mental Health
Organizations
CMHO Webinar Series
October 26, 2016
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Introductions
Michael Schiel is a Director at Lough Barnes with 17 years of experience in community, healthcare and broader public sector focusing on process improvement, transformation and change management. He is certified in Lean Six Sigma, Change Management, Project Management, and IT Services. Michael has completed Lean Six Sigma and Quality Improvement projects for CMHO organizations, Ministries, Community Health Centers, and other Community Services organizations.
Mark L. Fraser is the Director of System Management and Quality at the Child and Family Center. Mark is a registered psychotherapist with the College of Psychotherapists of Ontario with over 16 years of clinical and research experience working with complex children, youth and families within the children’s mental health and child welfare sectors, he holds a Master’s in Applied Psychology, and Bachelor Degrees in Psychology (H.B.A.) and Biochemical Sciences. Mark is the lead at CFC for the Lean Intake Redesign Project.
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Today’s Objectives
What You Will Learn Today:
How Lean Six Sigma fits into the quality picture
What is Lean Six Sigma
5 Key parts of Lean
What Lean Six Sigma means for CMHO organizations
Case Study: Child and Family Center and Intake Redesign
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Refresher: Why Quality?
Some major trends are acting as drivers for changes in community and broader public sector:
• Continued drive to push service deliver closer to the community
• Desire to see demonstrated value for money
• Increasing expectations for access and equity of services
• Increasing expectations of service efficiency and effectiveness
Quality models help you to define quality for your organization, assess quality challenges, and to improve quality outcomes
Quality Drivers
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Quality Improvement Models
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No one model is better than others
Most models have:
• A statement of the quality vision you are trying to achieve
• A defined process for how QI will be conducted
• Approach to determining quality issues/challenges
• A list of improvement goals or priorities that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound.
• Who is responsible and accountable (team, individual, etc.)
• A plan to collect and report the performance
• A plan for how the results (and the goals) will be evaluated
• A process for determining next steps
Where Does Lean Six Sigma Fit?
There are literally hundreds of approaches, tools and applications you can use related to quality improvement
• The American Society of Quality has a list of over one hundred (http://asq.org/service/body-of-knowledge/tools)
• The IHI also has a page on tools (http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Tools/default.aspx)
We are recommending tools by where you are in the process journey:
• Planning
• Quality assessment
• Implement change
• Continuous process improvement
Plan Assess Implement CPI
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Lean Six Sigma can help with assessing quality challenges, and
figuring out how to improve
What is Lean Six Sigma, and Why Should You Care About it?
What is Lean?
Some definitions of Lean:
The core idea is to maximize client value while minimizing waste
Use of continuous process improvement techniques to increase productivity, reduce wasted time and activities, find efficiencies, improve service reliability and…
Improve staff morale and customer service
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What is Lean?
Lean is NOT:
An acronym
Only for manufacturing
About staff or service reduction
A silver bullet or a “fix all your problems” fad
A temporary fix
Fast and easy
The same as Six Sigma
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Why Should You Care About Lean?
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Benefits of Implementing Lean
Improved client experience and satisfaction
Faster response to client needs
Improved, standardized and repeatable processes
Improved service quality
Reduced service delivery costs
Ability to focus resources on more value-added activities
Improved asset utilization: people, equipment & technology
And….
Increased job satisfaction/reduced stress for staff
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Lean Vs. Six Sigma
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Both seek to create the most efficient system possible
Biggest difference is in the “how”:
• Lean practitioners seek to eliminate “waste” that comes from unnecessary steps in the production process that do not add value to the finished product
• Six Sigma focuses on reducing variation within the process (that causes waste in its own way)
5 Main Lean Principles
5 principles of Lean
Value - specify what creates value from the client’s perspective.
Value stream – identify all the steps along the process chain.
Flow - make the value process flow.
Pull - make only what is needed by the customer (short term response to the customer’s rate of demand).
Perfection - strive for perfection by continually attempting to produce exactly what the customer wants.
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Value and Waste
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Steps in any process can be…
A step is value-added if:
• The client/end user recognizes the value
• It transforms the product or the service
• It is done right the first time
• Steps that are required due to legal, fiduciary, fiscal, compliance, etc. reasons
• Contributes to running the organization
• Steps do not contribute directly to fulfilling customer needs
Value added (for the client)
Necessary but not Value added (for the
organization)
Waste
Our goal is to…
• Eliminate waste • Minimize the time
required to do organization value-added steps
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Client Point of View
Who Is Your Client or End User?
Value and service delivery should be based on your users’ needs
What Do They Really Want?
Who are your clients or customers? • Think both internal to your organization and external
• Do you have more than one type?
What are their service requirements? What do they value?
How do you know?
Are You Structured To Meet Their Needs?
Are your processes, approaches, systems set up with the customer’s point of view?
Its important to document who your users are, and what they value – then share this with everyone on the staff for feedback
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Value Stream Map
o A value stream map (VSM) is a pictorial representation of how things flow through the system from beginning to end (e.g., intake, assessment, referral, etc.)
o It is used to:
Confirm how the process actually works
highlight any inefficiencies in the current system (i.e., waste, flow issues, examples of variability)
o A VSM provides a great framework for opportunity identification and solution development
Allows the team to “See the flow” of the value stream and wastes in the
flow
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Steps for creating a value stream map
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1. Define customer requirements
2. Identify key steps in the process
3. Gather process data
4. Identify additional information including material/information flows
5. Identify value add and non-value add times
6. Determine initial areas of opportunity
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Sample Value Stream Map
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Sample Future State Map
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Immediate data entry, rather than manual transportation, reduces
errors
AP Staff can review files electronically as they are submitted
Reduced cycle time and lead time
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Pull
Push versus Pull
“Push”: service is provided at a set schedule that’s created in advance
• Ford assembly line
• Fast food chains using heat lamps
• Always providing all your services at full service levels every hour every day regardless of client trends
“Pull” services are delivered in response to a client’s request
• Having just enough parts, to create a product “just-in-time”
In some ways, Child and Youth mental health services are “pull” naturally”: you don’t provide the service until the child/youth requires it
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Perfection
Lean is not a one-off activity
The journey of continuous improvement ties the process together and make it ever-lasting
Continuous improvement is a mind-set or a culture as much as it is a set of activities or tools
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Perfection
Continuous Process Improvement (CPI)
A CPI model is one that allows an organization to plan, implement, measure and sustain its approach to making organizational improvements
Define
Measure Assess
Control
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Remember the 8 Types of Waste
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Defects
Overproduction
Waiting (queuing)
Non utilized brainpower
Transport
Inventory
Motion
Extra or complex processing
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Examples of Waste
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Waste Example
Defects / Poor service
/ Documentation errors
Overproduction / Multiple assessments
/ Filling out the same information on different forms
Waiting / Waiting to be registered as a client
/ Waiting for a clinician/staff/service
Non-utilized Brainpower / Idle staff
/ Not using staff/resources as input for service delivery, process improvement, etc.
/ Staff working on activities they are over-qualified for
Transport / Moving clients from room to room
/ Poor workplace layouts, convoluted client flow
Inventory / Too much inventory
/ Idle equipment
Motion / Needless movement of workers
/ Needing to get up and go get forms from different offices
Extra or Complex Processing / Asking the patient the same questions multiple times
/ Redundant forms or work-steps
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How Do You Know if You Have Waste?
Your staff or clients can tell you!
Typical symptoms of waste:
• Excessive cycle, lead or flow time
• Excessive costs
• Poor quality
• Dependency on work-arounds
• Reactive fire-fighting
• Daily management by exception
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Lean Six Sigma and CMHO Organizations
CYMH Organizational Challenges
Some challenges of applying Lean to CMHO organizations:
Value may be different for each client
Service variety and complexity make process standardization difficult
Sometimes services are delivered in partnership with other organizations
Need to consider social value and the equitable provision of services
Balancing high quality service levels with reducing costs, and wait lists
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Case Study: Child and Family Centre
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Child and Family Centre (CFC) is using Lean to review, redesign and centralize the intake process
CFC is using the Lean methods and tools to:
• Map current state intake pathways and processes
• Centralize intake processes
• Identify barriers
• Find efficiencies and improve overall quality of the intake process
• Engage community stakeholders
Some lessons learned so far:
• Take the time to stress quality as a main principle for the work
• Leverage existing relationships and work completed to date
• Use the process to effectively engage the community
• Need some time to figure out timing of engagement
Thank You!
What You Learned Today:
What Lean is and isn’t;
What Lean means for community organizations like you;
Some lessons learned from other organizations similar to yours;
Ways you may consider using Lean in your organization
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Q&A Session
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