June 30, 2014, Los Angeles, CA – The Hospital Association of Southern California 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 initially 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.”

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About the Hospital Association of Southern California

The Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC), founded in 1923, is a not-for-profit 501(c)(6) regional trade association. HASC is dedicated to serving the political, economic, informational and educational needs of hospitals and to help improve the quality and accessibility of health services. Visit www.hasc.org for more information.

About HPP

Healthcare Performance Partners (HPP), a MedAssets company, helps health care organizations make the right work easier to do. HPP’s proprietary Lean enterprise development model deliberately combines improvement tools, organizational development and learning, management systems, and strategy development and deployment to construct the stable platform of sustainability necessary for all health care organizations. HPP customizes its approach for every clinical and business process of the organization, even including information technology, quality functions, human resources and the revenue cycle.