Message From NAHQ Leadership Recognizing and Valuing Healthcare Quality Professionals
As healthcare quality professionals, we've always known that the role we play in improving outcomes and ensuring patient safety is valuable and significant. And with today's current healthcare landscape, more and more people are recognizing our value and contributions we make to the healthcare system, too. Read more
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Solutions Report Series
The challenge of workforce readiness to deliver on value in healthcare is real. Workforce development in quality can help realize the promise of value, but is often an unrecognized element by management. The second edition of NAHQ’s six-part Solutions Report explains why executive leadership buy-in is key to leveraging quality and achieving higher quality care with better outcomes. Access the report
Healthcare Quality Week (HQW)
October 20-26
Let's celebrate the contributions healthcare quality professionals have made to improve healthcare quality and to bring greater awareness to the profession. Join the conversation and share your HQ stories for a chance to win registration to NAHQ NEXT 2020. Learn more
NAHQ Annual Report Video
NAHQ’s annual report provides members and the public an opportunity to review the organization’s initiatives, successes and financial status for the past year. Watch the 2018 video
Managing the Tides: Navigating Our Way to High Reliability
October 23 from 1-2 pm CT
This complimentary presentation will detail the high reliability voyage of Tidelands Health, a three-hospital health system with over 200 providers and 1,800 employees on the coast of South Carolina. There will be an overview of where they started, where they are now, and where they want to be in the future.Register
CPHQ®️ Review Courses
October 24-25 in Dallas, TX December 5-6 in Little Rock, AR December 10-11 in Chicago, IL
This interactive, in-person course reviews CPHQ exam materials and offers valuable tips on how to prepare for test day. Register
Inseparable Link between Quality and Operations: Leveraging High-Reliability and Change Management
October 29 from 12-1 pm CT
This Learning Lab webinar, complimentary to NAHQ members, will provide insight on implementing high-reliability principles to improve operational and quality outcomes, and more.Learn about the event and register
Looking Forward to 2020: Preparing for Surveys in the New Year
November 6 from 12-1 pm CT
This complimentary webinar will review trends and patterns in Joint Commission and CMS survey findings, and outline the best way to prepare for routine and for-cause surveys in the coming year.Register
Healthcare Quality and Safety 2019 Conference
November 6-7
NAHQ CEO Stephanie Mercado will present the opening keynote address, "How Healthcare Organizations Can Leverage Quality and Integrate Their Workforce to Achieve Both Patient-Centered Care and Economic Value," at this conference, hosted by Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. This program will combine strategies for healthcare quality improvement with industry trends, updates and recommendations.
No matter where you are in your accreditation cycle, it’s never too late to get an independent and objective evaluation of your level of preparedness. A Greeley Mock Survey can help you avoid some of the common survey vulnerabilities. Learn more
Performance and Process Improvement
Automation of the I-PASS Tool to Improve Transitions of Care
The breadth of data related to each individual patient's care is often overwhelming, as is the critical task of efficiently and completely communicating the data to a colleague at the point of care transition. Read the article
Population Health and Care Transitions High Reliability Boot Camp: October 21-22
This program, led by Jefferson College of Population Health, is designed for clinical and operational leaders responsible for service delivery within their organizations. The program will review basic concepts of high reliability that include communications, structural organization and culture, and practical application models of quality improvement. Learn more
Patient Safety
AHRQ Releases Annual Report on U.S. Healthcare Quality and Disparities
Nearly 70 percent of measures on person-centered care and 60 percent of patient safety measures saw improvement between 2000 to 2017, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) 2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report. Access the report
Patient Safety
2020 ORYX Reporting Requirements The Joint Commission recently announced its 2020 ORYX® reporting requirements. In 2020, hospitals will use the Direct Data Submission Platform for submission of electronic clinical quality measures and chart-abstracted measures. Learn more
NAHQ ON THE MOVE
NAHQ CEO Stephanie Mercado and other NAHQ leaders have hit the road, speaking with healthcare quality professionals all around the country about NAHQ and the importance of adopting our industry-standard healthcare quality competencies to reduce variability among the workforce and improve outcomes.
October 4: VergeCon - Chicago, IL
October 5-6: Math for Nurses - Coral Gables, FL
October 11: HFAP Academy Live - Rosemont, IL
October 16: SSM Health 2019 Annual Quality Conference - St. Louis, MO
October 22: Georgia Association for Healthcare Quality
November 6: Healthcare Quality & Safety 2019 - Boston, MA