Graduate Engineering Education Emphasizing Continuous Quality Improvement

BACKGROUND: Supporting employment consultants in their work with job seekers is critical for increasing the employment outcomes of people with disabilities. OBJECTIVE: To better understand how to leverage data for supporting employment consultants, including what metrics to track, what to do with the data, and what can be improved. METHODS: A panel of three directors of employment programs addressed these questions as part of the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE) 2020 conference. RESULTS: Most employment service providers collect data for billing and compliance reporting. Innovative providers leverage data for quality improvement. CONCLUSIONS: Tracking metrics designed specifically for monitoring the implementation of effective employment supports is key for leveraging data for continuous quality improvement and thus improving job seekers’ employment outcomes.

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Implementing Continuous Quality Improvement in an Integrated Community Urology Practice: Lessons Learned

Urology ◽

10.1016/j.urology.2020.11.068 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Franklin Gaylis ◽

Ryan Nasseri ◽

Amirali Salmasi ◽

Christopher Anderson ◽

Sarah Mohedin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Continuous Quality Improvement ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Continuous Quality

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Setting the standard for healthy eating: Continuous quality improvement for health promotion at Nova Scotia Health

Healthcare Management Forum ◽

10.1177/0840470420967705 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 49-55

Author(s):

Laura J. Kennedy ◽

Nathan G. A. Taylor ◽

Taylor Nicholson ◽

Emily Jago ◽

Brenda L. MacDonald ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Quality Improvement ◽

Nova Scotia ◽

Healthy Eating ◽

Continuous Quality Improvement ◽

Healthcare Organizations ◽

Quality Improvement Process ◽

Continuous Quality ◽

The Status ◽

Collaborative Efforts

Healthcare organizations engage in continuous quality improvement to improve performance and value-for-performance, but the pathway to change is often rooted in challenging the way things are “normally” done. In an effort to propel system-wide change to support healthy eating, Nova Scotia Health developed and implemented a healthy eating policy as a benchmark to create a food environment supportive of health. This article describes the healthy eating policy and its role as a benchmark in the quality improvement process. The policy, rooted in health promotion, sets a standard for healthy eating and applies to stakeholders both inside and outside of health. We explain how the policy offers nutrition but also cultural benchmarks around healthy eating, bringing practitioners throughout Nova Scotia Health together and sustaining collaborative efforts to improve upon the status quo.

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