Boston – Payette recently announced that Paula Buick, RN, LEED GA, director of healthcare planning, and Sarah Holton, AIA, LEED AP, architect, have become certified in Lean Six Sigma through the University of Villanova.
Lean Six Sigma is a combination of Lean methodologies, which focus on reducing costs through waste reduction, process flow optimization; and Six Sigma methodology, which are about meeting customer requirements and stakeholder expectations while improving quality by measuring and eliminating defects. Lean Six Sigma approaches are focused on effectiveness, not just efficiency.
Having joined Payette in early 2006, Buick was named an associate in October 2006 and director of healthcare planning in 2008. She combines strong project management experience with a unique perspective of service line planning, operations and clinical care, having been an ICU nurse and senior project manager at Mass. General Hospital.
Holton joined Payette in 2005 and is a programming specialist in Payette’s planning department. She has completed space studies and programming for higher education institutions such as Cornell, Columbia, NYU, Harvard and the Harvard School of Public Health, among others.