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.

NAHQ Insights

Whitepaper​

There are many questions facing healthcare leaders as we reflect on the last year of navigating a pandemic. COVID-19 has forced us to reassess countless status quos, from PPE supply…

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Report​

As the U.S. health system rapidly shifts to business models designed to reward cost-efficient, quality care that improves patient outcomes, healthcare quality professionals are playing an increasingly central role in…

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Research

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…

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Whitepaper​

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…

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Whitepaper​

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…

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Whitepaper​

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…

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Thought Leadership

The intersection of quality and finance, with Rick Gundling and Stephanie Mercado

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Thought Leadership

June 2023 Modern Healthcare Industry leading publication Modern Healthcare has just dropped a great article making the business case for quality. John Chomeau, strategic advisor to NAHQ and other experts weigh in…

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