Sentences with phrase «of quality improvement programs»

Ensured compliance with all accrediting and regulatory agencies through monitoring of quality improvement programs.

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As cofounder of Big Health, creators of Sleepio, a digital sleep - improvement program featuring cognitive behavioral therapy, here's his advice about what you can be doing to get better quality sleep, and more of it.

The dining services program explains these high - quality menus align with its values of continuous improvement, «passion in all we do» and great customer service.

The program also supposedly aims to address the improvement of seed quality, conversion of farmers from traditional farming to high - yielding hybrid rice seeds, lack of irrigation, and lack of fertilizers.

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«While there has been a slight decline in participation, it does not reflect the measurable and positive gains we have made as a school district in making improvements to the nutritional quality of our school breakfast and lunch programs.»

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

As the quality of drinking and surface water declines, why not use some of the money for water treatment systems and other water quality improvement programs?

The program aims to improve the physical appearance of older commercial centers by providing a consistent treatment of exterior building improvements and to improve the quality of life for surrounding low / moderate income residential neighborhoods by enhancing the appearance of frequently visited retail structures.

The Cuomo administration already provides hundreds of millions of dollars to some struggling voluntary hospitals through the Value Based Payment / Quality Improvement Program, or VBP / QIP.

Cathe Bullwinkle, R.N. and Quality Improvement Coordinator and Patrice Bogan, F.N.P., Director of Clinical Services for the Oneida County Health Department, will conduct the programs and address such topics as:

Making these overdue quality - of - life improvements will free up resources for NYCHA to invest in its capital program.»

The data were compiled from American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database and include patients from children's hospitals from across the nation.

Dr. Han and colleagues tell us that at UCSF, the medical center and the office of graduate medical education leadership joined forces to produce a program - specific quality improvement program in 2008.

Within the U.S., the most widely used surgical outcomes reporting system is the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), which is coordinated through the American College of Surgeons.

Using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP ®), the Florida Surgical Care Initiative (FSCI) was able to reduce complications by 14.5 percent.

«Quality improvement program helps lower risk of bleeding, death following stroke.»

Using the American Heart Association's Get - With - the - Guidelines quality improvement program, patients were reviewed for co-morbid conditions including kidney function, blood counts, and blood tests such as brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), a marker of heart failure.

Surgeons gathered to focus on a quality improvement program to address a central issue in treating advanced ovarian cancer — how to optimize surgery to achieve complete removal of all visible tumor — also called optimal resection.

The study examined more than 142,000 patients who had non-cardiac surgery using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.

Incorporating information from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and Surgical Risk Calculator into the daily workflow of healthcare teams in hospitals across the country could help achieve the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services» goal to reduce hospital readmissions and generate savings in health care costs in the coming years.

Researchers at Jefferson's Maternal Addiction Treatment Education & Research (MATER) program found significant improvement in the quality of parenting among mothers who participated in a trauma - informed, mindfulness - based parenting intervention while also in medication - assisted treatment for opioid use disorder.

The faster rate of improvement in lung function and nutrition in the United States, the researchers suggested, may be due to earlier implementation of newborn screening or quality improvement initiatives for the disease and improved access to medical care under the Medicaid Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in the United States.

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The multidisciplinary team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn., developed blood utilization practice guidelines that resulted in $ 2 million in savings and a 30 percent reduction in blood utilization, according to a poster presentation at the 2016 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP ®) Conference in San Diego.

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

Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.»

The TMS cited Foley for «dedicated and sustained service to TMS and its members, particularly to improvements in the quality of programming at TMS annual meetings and at Materials Science and Technology conferences.»

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach prQuality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach prquality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

Multiple quality - improvement programs have been found to produce improvements similar to those generated by the Health Disparities Collaboratives» diabetes program, Huang said, but «the economic value of these programs is generally unknown.»

The Center for Bariatric Surgery at The Miriam Hospital has been a Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery and was reaccredited in 2017 by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP).

MHRP conducts several of these studies that focus on operational research to inform program quality and provide mid-course corrections and improvements for a project.

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Fordham Institute Executive Vice President Mike Petrilli served as moderator, and he was joined by panelists Sandi Jacobs, Vice President and Managing Director for State Policy, National Council on Teacher Quality; Alice Johnson Cain, Vice President for Policy, Teach Plus; Chet Linton, CEO and President, School Improvement Network; and Rob Well, Director of Field Programs, Educational Issues Department, American Federation of Teachers.

Such data helps in determining the success of the training programs, improving the quality of learning deployed, and also finding areas that need improvement in terms of training.

TEAC accreditation audits focus on three quality principles: evidence of teacher candidate learning, evidence that the assessment of such learning is valid, and evidence of the program's own continuous improvement and quality control.

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.

It can be used by after - school program staff as part of their ongoing quality improvement or by an outside observer.

The Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education, is structured to highlight the best of what we currently know about healthy child development and high - quality systems, schools and classrooms of early learning, while also bringing in new thinking from other fields to provide insights that bear on the design of preK improvement and expansion.

Such a shock to the system of advanced teacher education could, however, lead to improvements in program quality.

«Nick Hoekstra embodies the fine qualities of students in the International Education Policy Program: a commitment to lead so all children can learn what they need to become architects of their own lives; ambitions to support educational change that exceed the resources he currently controls; and ingenuity to collaborate with others building networks for continuous improvement to produce 21st - century education,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, faculty director if IEP.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

In partnership with the High / SCOPE Educational Research Foundation, PASA also developed the Rhode Island Program Quality Assessment Tool, which all providers of after - school programs can use to assess themselves on specific standards and indicators and to track their improvement over time.

With only two out of 10 prekindergarten programs being considered «high quality,» Professor Nonie Lesaux noted how many districts are eager to expand early education and yet there remains a vast need for improvement.

Called Book Banter, administrators at Central Elementary School in Wilmette Public Schools District 39 started the program four years ago and have seen improvement in the amount and quality of teacher - parent dialogue, staff members at the K - 4 school told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference.

A program should participate in their state or local Quality Rating and Improvement System if their state or local system has been validated to show that the tiers accurately reflect differential levels of quality, are related to progress in learning and development, and build toward school readiness and that Head Start programs are able to participate in the same way as other early childhood programs in theQuality Rating and Improvement System if their state or local system has been validated to show that the tiers accurately reflect differential levels of quality, are related to progress in learning and development, and build toward school readiness and that Head Start programs are able to participate in the same way as other early childhood programs in thequality, are related to progress in learning and development, and build toward school readiness and that Head Start programs are able to participate in the same way as other early childhood programs in the state.

The university initiative comes on the heels of a Wallace report suggesting that school district leaders are largely dissatisfied with the quality of principal preparation programs and many universities believe that their programs have room for improvement.

Published for the first time last year by the AIR's Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, the consumer guide rates 22 schoolwide - improvement models on the strength of their research track records and other program characteristics.

This toolkit offers guidance and recommendations on how states can improve principal preparation by increasing the depth and rigor of their preparation evaluation process, thus enabling them to accurately assess quality, promote program improvement, and intervene when performance is not satisfactory.

Despite their central role in authorizing principal preparation programs and issuing principal licenses, states lack strong models for assessing the quality of programs to promote improvement.