Organizations Develop Programs Aligned With National Health Improvement Strategies

The National Quality Strategy (NQS), established as a catalyst to improve and measure the nation’s health care quality, has highlighted the successes of four groups whose programs support national health care improvement priorities:

Children’s Hospitals’ Solutions for Patient Safety Network, an effort by children’s hospitals to eliminate harm to hospitalized children, has expanded to more than 100 children’s hospitals in the United States and Canada and has saved an estimated 7,000 children from serious medical harm.
San Francisco Hep B Free, a community partnership that aims to eliminate hepatitis B in San Francisco’s Asian-American and Pacific Islander community, reached more than 1,100 providers in efforts to increase awareness about the virus as well as the importance of routine screening and vaccinations.
More than five dozen Homeless Patient Aligned Care Teams, developed to eliminate barriers to quality health care among veterans, provided more than 25,000 veterans with services in 2016, including hygiene care, meals and enrollment in primary medical care.
SisterLove, Inc., created to educate African-American women in Atlanta about HIV/AIDS prevention, self-help and safer-sex techniques, developed a workshop model that significantly increased consistent condom use and HIV testing while improving attitudes about condom use and overall HIV knowledge.

Learn more about the NQS’s six quality improvement priorities.