(NOVACES: New Orleans) -- One year after pioneering the first lean Six Sigma deployment at a health care facility in Turkey, Kent Hospital shared its success stories at the Six Sigma & Lean Conference held in Izmir, Turkey, on May 9-11. Organized by the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, the conference was attended by a record crowd of more than 1,100 professionals.

Kent Hospital made its presentation on how lean Six Sigma can be implemented at a hospital, and cofacilitated a workshop with its deployment partner, NOVACES, a consulting and training firm based in New Orleans. In his presentation on lean Six Sigma in hospitals, Mesut Guderel, deputy leader of Kent’s lean Six Sigma coordination team, showed how they improved patient billing, materials management, discharge, and bypass surgery processes.

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