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Tips to Achieve Quality Care

Date: 10/18/20

In the midst of a global pandemic, quality has taken center stage. Health care professionals are increasingly being called upon to do critical work, and now more than ever, quality matters.

National Healthcare Quality Week (HQW), October 18 - 24, celebrates the progress made by health care professionals like you to improve patient outcomes and quality of care.

What is Quality Care?

Providing quality care means that you are focused on improving your patient’s health outcomes through patient-focused, effective, timely, equal and safe care.

The following four tips may aid you in your healthcare quality improvement efforts:

  1. Collect data and analyze patient outcomes. A good rule of thumb is, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Before you can improve quality, you first need to know what opportunities exist for improvement and then establish baseline patient outcomes. By looking at trends and statistics from electronic health records (EHRs) and other data sources, you can identify key areas in need of improvement.
  2. Set goals. After analyzing your data and identifying areas for improvement, prioritize those areas and set specific goals. If you need help, health organizations with established quality measures that may be able to guide your goal-setting process. Louisiana Healthcare Connections provides information to our network providers so that they can deliver the very best care.
  3. Improve access to care. Access to care is the single most important factor for improving quality of care and patient outcomes. Patients having access to the right care at the right time yields the right results.
  4. Focus on the patient. Your patients - our members - are the most important reason to be committed to quality care. Focusing on your patients’ engagement and helping them become proactive healthcare consumers is vital to improving quality.

For more information about improving quality care, click here.