 The new MBOE health care program, which will start in December of 2011, is a response to significant interest from the health care community, driven by the need to improve from a patient safety standpoint as well as being driven by new health care legislation. The program similar to the regular MBOE program features eight sessions over a one-year time slot. The student in the MBOE health care program will be immersed in excellence from a lean perspective and from a health care perspective. This program is aimed at working professionals, managers and executives who are passionate about operational excellence and leading operational excellence in their organizations. The faculty will be made up of experienced lean leaders at the university. These leaders are committed at a very high level within these health care facilities to bring not only themselves but the best of their people to work with, to teach in and potentially to coach in the MBOE health care program. With health care MBOE, we are emphasizing a value stream approach to health care. Our expectation is that we will have practitioners and professionals who will learn the tools and be able to apply it in their environment in health care. In terms of the MBOE program and the future of health care, it is our opportunity to say we as health care professionals have an opportunity to change health care. What better avenue than working on process improvements and you can honestly say that if you've got a healthy process, you're probably going to have a healthy patient so you can take those things away from the program. What's so great about the MBOE program is they're bringing all of the rock stars of lean to you. You're able to go through an entire curriculum so you're not missing pieces and parts of lean. They've packaged it up. It's all together. Working in health care is a very complex world and the MBOE program has really allowed me to take things and really look at the process level and then the whole system level. It's really a nice integrated approach of the classroom learning and it integrates every kind of learning possible so there's simulation. We go to different facilities and really we learn how to apply every single technique that we learn. Students in the past have delivered extensive value to the organizations. Almost 50% of the students have delivered value in their projects greater than the cost of the program before even graduating. These improvements by students have helped both local and regional companies improve their performance and remain competitive in the marketplace.