A 6S Implementation and Impact Assessment in the Housekeeping and Linen Department of Tertiary Care Hospital

In modern days, healthcare cost is increasing tenfold along with immense pressure on providers to reduce the cost, improve quality of service and safety, lessen waiting time eliminate errors in system. 6S targets at optimizing process by eliminating waste uses visual aids achieve efficiency workplace. The study aims assessing changes that attained implementation housekeeping linen department a tertiary care hospital. A quantitative method data collection was employed help questionnaire checklist. Independent Paired t-test, descriptive statistics Repeated Measures ANOVA (RM-ANOVA) used analyse obtained. t-test indicated all five sections very statistically significant (<.001). pre-implementation score for 33.593% post 91.406%. improved from 62.5% 88.28%. p-value sort .016 which significant, Set order .064 greater than 0.05 implies there no statistical significance followed shine, standardize, sustain safety <.001, .005 .002 respectively are department. sort, set shine found be .251, .368, .156 tells difference between means. standardize .004, .022 significant.