Called "Nurses' Choice," the initiative is the result of a unique collaboration between the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute and the Monmouth University Polling Institute with the cooperation of the Institute for Nursing, the Foundation of the New Jersey State Nurses Association.
As a member of the newly appointed 12-member Maryland Health Quality and Cost Control Council, she will make recommendations to the Governor, state legislature, and executive branch on health care quality improvement and cost containment initiatives and facilitate collaborations in health care across the public and private sectors.
AHRQ: State gains in health care quality seen States have made promising gains in health care quality, although more remains to be done in areas ranging from cancer screening to treatments of heart attack patients, according to new state snapshots released by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Making these changes would result in "quantum leaps" in health care quality in a short period of time, he said during a Web meeting sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund.
INTRODUCTION The science of measuring health plan performance and health care quality has advanced rapidly over the past 10 years and is now commonly applied in monitoring systems (Brook, McGlynn, and Cleary, 1996; Eddy, 1998).
The public sector Advisory Council on Health Care Quality will set national clinical aims u for instance, reducing medication errors by a certain percentage within two years.
Brill, MD, AGAF, CHCQM, Board member and Chair of the Continuing Education Committee noted, "In an era of accountability, Health Care Quality and Management (HCQM) certification demonstrates professionals have the practical knowledge and tools that can reduce medical errors, ensure patient safety, eliminate waste and unnecessary services, coordinate and avoid potentially harmful delays in care.
