Caldwell Butler & Associates is the nation's leading expert in the strategic application of advanced quality methods in healthcare. We provide comprehensive strategies and solutions for healthcare organizations desiring to improve their performance through the integration of Lean-Six Sigma and other advanced quality methods. We are experts in methods of driving accountability, change, and implementation. We focus exclusively on healthcare and have developed a number of proprietary applications for achieving meaningful gains in performance. All of our staff have spent the vast majority of their careers dedicated to healthcare and bring a wealth of practical experience to assist our clients. Learn more about our team of Lean-Six Sigma Healthcare Experts
In contrast to training oriented companies, our team offers a holistic approach, which overcomes the traditional shortcomings of applying an industrial approach to Lean or Six Sigma to Healthcare. Our expertise include our comprehensive and proprietary systems for:
Our Six Sigma Certified team members have many of years experience within the healthcare industry, training some of the largest healthcare facilities to better utilize Lean-Six Sigma to improve their hospitals performance.
Our Six Sigma Certified team members have numerous documented case studies outlining the successful integration of Lean-Six Sigma processes into patient healthcare systems, ensuring a profitable ROI for your company.
An initial assessment of your process is vital to proper use of Lean-Six Sigma system of healthcare management. Our team utilizes our proprietary methods in an efficient manner to help lay the groundwork for future measureable benchmarks.
If every hospital starts they year with a strategic plan, budget and the desire to succeed, then what are the attributes that separate top performers from non-starters? Why have many healthcare organization launched into Lean and Six Sigma only to be disappointed and abandon their efforts within one to two years because of a lack of acceptance and no tangible ROI for their efforts?
What Top-Performing Healthcare Organizations Know:
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For the past decade our organization has conducted annual research to isolate the traits and methods of hospitals that have successfully integrated Lean-Six Sigma and created a culture of continuous improvement. Our methods are based on this research of more than 200 U.S. hospitals and have been repeatedly published by the American College of Healthcare Executives. Learn More...
We offer a comprehensive set of solutions specifically crafted for healthcare. We understand healthcare and have de-jargonized and transformed these methods into healthcare appropriate tools managers can actually use in their daily work.
CBA stands by our results and offers you a written guarantee of a tangible ROI. We understand the reason that the industrial approach to Lean-Six Sigma has an historically low success rate when viewed from a 24 month perspective and offer proven solutions for overcoming these barriers.
CBA's methods and approaches are based on our published research, books and experiences. We have incorporated these attributes and approaches to offer you a proven system incorporating methods used by the nation's most successful hospitals.
We offer proven strategies for improving performance on large Big Q core processes such as:
In-Quality Staffing is a proprietary method exclusive to CBA. In-Quality Staffing is the best method for having the right people in the right place with the right skills at the right time. In-Quality Staffing has achieved results where benchmarking, productivity systems, and budget cuts have failed to achieve sustainable results. It is a quality-based approach to one of healthcares most pressing issues.
We offer proprietary methods for:
We understand that having the desire and a great strategy is not enough. You must be able to execute your strategy and this means overcoming the resistance and barriers that plague healthcare's progress. We offer strong change models to assist managers overcome their fears and achieve rapid progress.
All of CBA's experts are senior healthcare professionals with more than 20 years of healthcare experience. You will never have to rely on someone who is junior, unproven or unfamiliar to the unique environment of healthcare.
CBA methods are developed with the needs of senior executives in mind. We focus on large core processes that will achieve strategic results rather than a project-by-project approach.
Our client references are impeccable and span the entire spectrum of healthcare. We can put this experience to work for your organization. Our scope and experience includes: