1002.0 Public Health and Quality Care

Thursday, June 23, 2011: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Oral
The Affordable Care Act requires the Department of Health and Human Services to improve the quality of health services delivered throughout our health care and public health systems. This session will look at the many ways the broad quality enterprise can be used to ensure accountability, enhance clinical safety, enhance system performance and increase quality improvement over time. The focus will be on the enhancement of a dynamic quality framework to strengthen population based and public health systems.
Organizer:
Susan Polan, PhD
Moderator:
Christina Welter, DrPH, MPH

3:00pm
Public health engagement in the healthcare quality enterprise
Bonnie Zell, MD, MPH
     
3:20pm
Using measurement to improve population health
Mary Mincer Hansen, PhD and Phyllis Meadows, PhD, MSN, RN
     
3:40pm
Implementing health care reform: Community health centers filling the gap
Lee Francis, MD, MPH
     
4:00pm
Public health and quality care: The link between accreditation and QI
Terry Cline, PhD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Mid-Year Meeting Abstracts

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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