HASC has announced a formal, strategic partnership with Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Performance Partners, a MedAssets company. The partnership was formed to provide access to introductory and advanced forms of Lean services and training, such as Lean tools, Lean management systems and strategy deployment, to the Southern California health care market.

The partnership will add value to the marketplace through training offerings coordinated through HASC. The first training session, Lean Fundamentals for Healthcare, will focus on introductory Lean knowledge and be offered Sept. 29 through Oct. 3 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.

“HPP is a nationally known firm offering comprehensive services and curriculum in performance improvement including Lean training,” said Pat Wall, HASC Vice President, Membership and Education Services. “HASC’s goal is to offer members high-caliber performance improvement training locally and cost effectively while minimizing travel costs and time out of the office.”

“We’re excited that HASC has chosen us to help them elevate Lean and performance improvement in the Southern California healthcare market,” said HPP President Charles Hagood. “We have helped organizations across the country avoid ‘death by Kaizen’ and prepare for value- and population-driven care. We do this by building an organization’s core Lean Healthcare competencies and management systems in order to become a true Lean enterprise.”

Contact: Pat Wall

(213) 538-0715, pwall@hasc.org