Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation
“I like the emphasis on simplicity and after taking this courseI feel confident to begin my own improvement project!”—Monica Mireles, Supervisor, Kaiser Permanente
About the Program
Health care leaders and professionals want to undertake improvement projects in their practice or organization, and many don’t know where to begin, or how to analyze and properly gauge their successes.
Program Fees
- Standard Price $2,100.00
Program Overview
Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation will use a real case study to take participants through the journey of identifying, planning, measuring, and creating process changes that will lead to results.
This program will show you how to design and implement your own health care improvement project from a practitioner with extensive international experience. This course uses a simulation exercise, with frameworks and methods taught just-in-time for you to apply in small groups during each session. This eight-session program will teach you how to:
- Develop your aim for improvement
- Identify the improvement team
- Flowchart the process of care delivery
- Establish your improvement indicators
- Determine how to test
- Monitor changes in your process
- Graph the results
- Finalize your implementation-ready design
Upcoming Program Details
- Articulate the key issue in health care quality
- Explain the fundamentals underlying the science of improvement
- Define improvement aims
- Form improvement teams
- Analyze processes of care
- Develop improvement indicators
- Plot time series charts
- Test and implement changes to improve health care processes
- Monitor and evaluate results of tested changes and make decisions based on them
- Conduct iterative testing of changes to achieve the desired result
All Times are Eastern Time (ET).
| Monday, January 6, 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9:00–10:15 am | Introduction & Overview | Tuesday, January 7, 2025 |
| 9:00–10:15 am | Part 1: Developing an Improvement Aim | Wednesday, January 8, 2025 |
| 9:00–10:15 am | Part 2: Forming the Improvement Team | Thursday, January 9, 2025 |
| 9:00–10:15 am | Part 3: Understanding the Current Process | Monday, January 13, 2025 |
| 9:00–10:15 am | Part 4: Developing Indicators | Tuesday, January 14, 2025 |
| 9:00–10:15 am | Part 5: Collecting and Plotting the Data | Wednesday, January 15, 2025 |
| 9:00–10:15 am | Part 6: Developing, Testing, and Implementing Change | Thursday, January 16, 2025 |
| 9:00–10:15 am | Finalizing the Design / Final Discussion |
This agenda is subject to change.
- Mid-level health care leaders who want a practical approach and means to contextualize their learnings for current or future health care improvement projects
- Senior leaders who have had previous training in health care improvement and want more practical application in their learning for a current or future projects
- Various health care personnel with titles that may include Health Care Project Managers, Director of Quality Improvement, Director of Patient Experience, Director of Hospital Operations, Director of Patient Safety, Physician and Nurse Leaders, Director of Engagement, Service Line Leaders, Executive Directors, Ministry of Health Team Leaders, Directors of Programs and more
Credits & Logistics
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 10 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.
All credits subject to final agenda.
All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program.
This program also contributes to the 3-program Executive Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization. Click here for more information.
