5 million" (Heuvel, J., Does, R. & Verver, J. 2005. PP. 8). A second example, "Mount Carmel Health System, a three-hospital system in Columbus, Ohio reported a financial return of $3.1 million; while a third hospital, Charleston Area Medical Center, a 919-bed three-campus in West Virginia, achieved $841,000 in savings on supply chain management by using Six Sigma" (Heuvel, J., Does, R. & Verver, J. 2005. PP. 3). Cost saving in the health care sector is critical, as since 2001 "premiums have increased by 113%, placing increasing cost burdens on employers and workers" (Kaiser Edu.org. 2012. PP. 1). Six Sigma provides "a measurement- based strategy" (i Six Sigma.com. N.D. PP. 1) which care organizations can utilize across a variety of platforms.
Specific Methodologies
Health care providers can look to Six Sigma as a process model which can be targeted to specific functional...
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