Suicide remains a leading cause of death for youth nationally, with access to mental health care continuing to be an emergent care imperative for health care organizations that are struggling to triage and provide critically needed mental health services to the communities they serve. Administrative inefficiencies present a potentially life-threatening delay in access to children seeking mental health care. Health care organizations have successfully used evidence-based process improvement methodologies to improve efficiency and reduce waste, including the Lean Six Sigma methodology. This study highlights the successful use of Lean Six Sigma to create an ambulatory scheduling process that significantly reduced waitlist times and increased timeliness of access to mental health care in a large pediatric hospital.

James Murphy

Tiffany Banks

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management is a PEER-REVIEWED journal that provides timely, applied information on the most important developments and issues in ambulatory care management.

The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management is a peer-reviewed journal that offers timely and practical information on the most significant developments and issues in the field of ambulatory care management.

《Journal of Ambulatory Care Management》是一本经过同行评审的期刊，提供关于门诊护理管理领域内最重要的发展和问题的及时、实用的信息。

Reducing Wait Times in Child and Adolescent Ambulatory Mental Health

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