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Essentials of Healthcare Quality Management

Benefits and Added Value

This module is designed for healthcare service providers and managers who are new to Quality Management. Participants will learn how to identify opportunities for improvement and plan a quality improvement project at the facility level. This module specifically aims at:

  • Define the principals of quality improvement
  • Identify a quality improvement opportunity at the facility
  • Develop a plan for beginning a quality improvement initiative 
  • Incorporates the principles of Quality Management
  • Applies a flexible approach to quality improvement methodology
  • Uses various quality improvement tools and techniques

Structure

This program will be conducted over five sessions, five hours per session, i.e. 25 hours. It will cover the following topics and issues:

  • Principles of management conducive to improving quality
  • The certification , ISO and the Accreditation systems
  • Systems view of the organization
  • Quality improvement tools
  • The quality 14 points of Deming
  • The Six Sigma
  • Measurement using quantitative and qualitative data, common cause and special cause variation
  • Planning for quality improvement

Target Participants

This program is targeting the potential professional and senior level executives in healthcare institutions, in order to engage them in a brainstorming experience about contemporary management applications in the field of healthcare.

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