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Healthcare Quality and Safety Workforce Report: New Imperatives for Quality and Safety Mean New Imperatives for Workforce Development
October 2022
The National Association for Healthcare Quality® (NAHQ) has conducted groundbreaking research on the advancement of the quality and safety agenda and has published the results in a new workforce report. NAHQ’s Healthcare Quality and Safety Report answers the question: “Is today’s healthcare workforce doing the work that will advance critical priorities of quality, safety, equity, value, and system sustainability?” The answer is no.
Workforce Report Toolkit
Download NAHQ's workforce report toolkit for a PowerPoint template and a video presentation for tips and ideas on delivering the information revealed in the workforce report.
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About the study: As healthcare delivery systems increasingly adopt models designed to reward cost-efficient and high-quality care, the demand for expertise in healthcare quality continues to grow. There has been…
Patient-centered care is increasingly outpatient care and hospitals are approaching a once-unthinkable milestone: The American Hospital Association announced in January 2019 that hospitals’ revenue from ambulatory care nearly equals that…
From the start, quality leaders and the healthcare quality workforce have played a vital role in Lifespan’s strategic initiative to deliver operational excellence. The drive for operational excellence has produced…
To do a better job of consistently fulfilling its mission to provide superior quality healthcare services across an integrated delivery network that includes 27 acute care hospitals and more than…
As CEO of NAHQ, Stephanie Mercado spends a lot of time thinking about three things critical to the success of her organization: people, infrastructure and technology. And it’s the people,…
Brent James, MD MStat, knows a thing or two about healthcare quality. Among his pioneering research and other quality accomplishments, James was one of the authors of two seminal reports from…
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