Program Overview

The only Green Belt training in the nation aligned with The Joint Commission, the nation’s leading healthcare improvement organization.

Achieve your Green Belt certification through our High Reliability training program for individuals and small teams. Featuring expert faculty with significant experience in applying the systematic approach of RPI, the Green Belt Certification Training Program incorporates a blended approach of Lean, Six Sigma, and change management specifically within health care settings.

Why Attend

• Unique opportunity to enhance your process improvement and change management skill set while simultaneously receiving hands-on expert guidance on your organization’s priority project.
• Learn RPI techniques to position yourself as the expert in sustainable process improvement across your organization.
• Network with peers in similar roles in organizations across the United States to discuss current patient safety and quality care challenges.
• Participants will have the ability to select the projects that are a priority to their organization.
• Three dedicated hours of mentoring to help trainees as they encounter project obstacles, consider various approaches and apply the tools.  Calls to be scheduled by participants with their mentors as needed.
• Receive formal Green Belt certification upon successfully delivering a report out of your project’s impact.

Learning Objectives

Learn from certified process improvement faculty with deep expertise applying Lean, Six Sigma and change management skills specifically within health care settings who can help you:

• Address complex and high impact patient safety and quality care issues (e.g., falls with injury, healthcare associated infections, medication errors, wrong-site surgery).
• Identify and validate root causes to your organization’s most pressing issues.
• Develop solutions to those issues that are tailored to your organization’s processes, norms and culture.
• Interpret data and outputs from statistical analysis software to make data-driven decisions.
• Ensure long-term sustainability of gains and improvements.

Program Details

The class is now offered 100% online from the convenience of your home or office.

2025 Training Dates:

January 2025 Wave

• Week 1: January 27-31
• Week 2: March 10-14
• Week 3: June 4-6

April 2025 Wave

• Week 1: April 7-11
• Week 2: July 14-18
• Week 3: October 8-10

August 2025 Wave

• Week 1: August 25-29
• Week 2: October 20-24
• Week 3: January 14-16, 2026

Training Session Times:

• Session 1
  • Day 1: 10:00am to 4:00pm CT
  • Days 2-5: 10:00am to 3:30pm CT
• Session 2
  • All days: 10:00am to 3:30pm CT
• Session 3
  • All days: 10:00 am to 3:30 pm CT

Students must attend all sessions.

Offer a Group Training Program

Host us virtually or at your facility for a training scheduled when and where your team is available for a training up to 20 leaders in your organization.  Click here to request more information. 

Faculty

As a team, our instructors and mentors bring the experience of the Joint Commission's innovative work with leading health care systems and hospitals to provide training and mentoring on high reliability concepts and the pursuit of zero harm, including Robust Process Improvement tools and methods. This experience comes from guiding health care providers exclusively in applying RPI principles to their own patient safety and quality processes, such as improving hand hygiene, improving emergency department turnaround times, or reducing medication errors, as well as operational processes, such as improving bed turnover times, reducing billing errors, or reducing staff turnover.

A team of certified process improvement experts with experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, and change management skills specifically within health care settings will be guiding and mentoring the participants in this program.

Continuing Education

This training will award 52.0 Continuing Education contact hours for the following: ACCME, ANCC, ACHE, & ACPE.

Full attendance at every session and completion of a post-engagement survey are prerequisites for receiving continuing education credits.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Joint Commission Resources.  Joint Commission Resources is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

By attending the Green Belt training program offered by Joint Commission Resources, participants may earn up to 52.0 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.

Payment Options

All Joint Commission Resources products require pre-payment. For your convenience, if you do not have a credit card or a Paypal account available, we offer a sales quote/proforma invoice option to assist with initiating your payment. Payments submitted by check take up to 14 days to process. If you are registering for a program less than 14 days away, your registration may not be received in time and your seat may not be reserved. You will not have access to electronic program materials until your payment has been received. We strongly recommend credit card payments for any events less than 14 days away.

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