Sentences with phrase «for quality improvement efforts»

Example outcomes for quality improvement efforts are described below.

«Hospital administrators, policymakers, surgeons and hospital epidemiologists can use these data to make a business case for quality improvement efforts focused on SSIs,» authors noted.

Not exact matches

Onondaga Lake has seen major improvement in water quality since remediation efforts began, but some remain dissatisfied and blame corporate influence for preventing a full restoration.

In an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement eQuality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement equality improvement efforts.

«Factors associated with catastrophic malpractice payouts present opportunities for targeted risk management and quality improvement efforts,» said co-author Martin A. Makary, M.D, MPH, a surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40

As patient - safety and quality improvement efforts continue to gain momentum throughout health care, the need for accurate sources of information is crucial, yet the question remains: Is one resource better than another?

Although quality improvements in existing programs and system - building efforts to coordinate services and enhance access are clearly important, they are unlikely to be enough to produce breakthrough impacts for children who face the cumulative burdens of low family income, limited parent education, and social exclusion.

Join Laura Bornfreund, the deputy director of the Early Education Initiative for the New America Foundation, and Debi Mathias, the director of the QRIS National Learning Network, as they discuss current early - childhood policy, efforts underway to bolster preschool quality, and suggestions for improvements at the local, state, and federal levels.

Ultimately, the outcome of this convening includes actionable policy guidance for Hampden County, Massachusetts, and the nation — guidance to inform improvements to the quality of early learning environments as well as to inform expansion efforts.

Indeed, improving the quality of teachers has been a core strategy for school improvement in the New York City (NYC) reform effort.

There are a number of ways for an effort to be innovative, including the way it is developed and delivered, new product features, and improvements to accessibility or quality of the product.

Our session, titled «Cultivating Literacy Achievement Through Quality Teacher Preparation,» touched on current program - improvement efforts, revision of the ILA standards for program recognition, variations in licensure requirements across the country, and policy - related challenges.

Putting educator quality at the center of national school improvement efforts remains as relevant today as it was 20 years ago when a national commission described recruiting, preparing, and supporting teachers as the single most important in - school resource for providing all students with an equitable and excellent education.

Efforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizEfforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizefforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizations.

UCEA has opened an opportunity for submissions of 5 - minute videos that explore broadly the landscape of quality leadership preparation, including our research and engaged scholarship, our preparation program designs and improvement efforts, our policy work, and the practice of educational leaders.

Considerations for selecting assessments will be discussed, and one approach, (the DESSA), will illustrate how social and emotional data can be used to guide instruction, evaluate outcomes, and support continuous quality improvement efforts in your programs.

Cleveland's Plan for Transforming Schools, the citywide plan to ensure quality schools for all children, was launched in 2012 by civic leaders and continues to drive improvement efforts.

Susan Muenchow and others, «Local Quality Improvement Efforts and Outcomes Descriptive Study» (San Mateo: American Institutes for Research, 2013).

While we support the effort to increase options for Detroit kids and parents, we hope the legislature considers a record of school quality and improvement as a prerequisite for new schools.»

Here we draw upon this literature to illustrate findings on the district role in reform in three areas: the challenges confronting district efforts to implement system - wide improvements in student learning; district strategies for improving student learning; and evidence of impact on the nature and quality of teaching and learning.

The data obtained from this tool can be used to document activities and strategies for improving quality and to identify barriers to improvement efforts.

«Kia's world - class lineup continues to earn quality, reliability and safety awards at an increasing rate and these IIHS Top Safety Pick Plus ratings for Soul and Sportage reflect Kia's continuous improvement and effort to improve all aspects of safety,» said Orth Hedrick, vice president, product planning, KMA.

According to Michael Bryant, Co-Founder and CEO of nSource, «With a focus on driving more profits to the bottom line and the need to streamline efforts to focus on delivering the highest levels of service to clients, law firms have historically studied their back / middle office operations for one of two reasons: 1) As part of a broad - based cost savings / optimization effort or 2) Attorney - driven demand for service improvement due to dissatisfaction with quality, availability of services.

They have made a concerted effort to create a high - quality product and are continuing to strive for improvement.

As part of our ongoing effort to provide drivers with low - cost, high quality traffic safety programs, we offer a wide variety of driver improvement courses for several U.S. states.

«We can effectively track the sources generating the largest volume and highest quality of candidates for improvements in our recruitment campaign efforts.

Direct all efforts in the execution of quality assurance for 300 + employee facility with a focus on continuous improvement.

Areas of Expertise Project Management - Contract Negotiations - Financial Management - Budgeting - Customer Service Process Improvement - Client Relations - Quality Control / Total Quality Management - Team Leadership Training & Development - Operations Management - Cost Controls - Construction Management Select Career Highlights * Planned and coordinated remodeling efforts for McDonald's, installing McCafe units at nearly...

Processes for ensuring consistent data quality and addressing identified issues are offered as part of a broader Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) quality and addressing identified issues are offered as part of a broader Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Quality Improvement (CQI) effort.

Garcia's research interests are connected to quality improvement efforts in the Intensive Program for OCD.

As educators, you spend lots of time, thought and effort in developing your service's Quality Improvement Plan and preparing for NQF assessment and ratings.

Data are also the foundation for Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) efforts undertaken by the state and local implementation sites.

Furthermore, you may want to draw on examples of successful continuous quality improvement programs in your community where data is used to improve performance in order to build support for your emerging effort.

It is no surprise, then, that many quality improvement efforts have focused on increasing education requirements for teachers and bolstering access to professional development and training.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Quality Benchmark for Cultural Competence Project (QBCCP) is an effort by NAEYC to determine the essential elements of cultural competence for early childhood programs and how to integrate these elements within quality rating and improvement systems staQuality Benchmark for Cultural Competence Project (QBCCP) is an effort by NAEYC to determine the essential elements of cultural competence for early childhood programs and how to integrate these elements within quality rating and improvement systems staquality rating and improvement systems standards.

Understanding HFM's data development efforts can help other states devise and implement robust home visitation data systems that support continuous quality improvement, meet state and federal requirements, and ensure services are delivering real results for children, families, and taxpayers.

Making recommendations for improvements in early learning standards and undertaking efforts to develop high - quality comprehensive early learning standards

The Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS) can serve as a useful framework for training and quality improvement efforts in family child care settings.

Understand the value of a professional learning community for program directors participating in Quality Rating and Improvement System efforts.

By supporting continuous program improvement efforts, focusing on teacher training, coordinating the administration of early education programs, creatively combining funding sources, and building a broad - based coalition of support, these four states are advancing high - quality early education opportunities for their youngest citizens.

Below we outline several outcome areas for mental health consultation that may be important to monitor as part of your program's ongoing quality improvement efforts, including: child outcomes, family outcomes, staff / classroom outcomes, and program outcomes.

Because consultation is fundamentally rooted in the quality of consultant - staff relationships, and designed to build teacher capacity for working with mental health and social - emotional concerns, collecting data from staff as part of quality improvement efforts is extremely important.

Kristen supported ACF's ongoing quality improvement efforts as a team leader for onsite compliance reviews, and as Region IX's staff lead for monitoring and risk assessment.