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National Quality StrategyWorking for QualityOMB No. 17-0043-2-EFNQS QUALITY STRATEGY TEMPLATEIntroductionWhen completed, the NQS Quality Strategy Template will produce a quality improvement strategythat reflects your organization’s commitment to achievement of the NQS aims by focusing on the sixpriorities and using the nine levers. This template will produce a quality strategy in two parts: thealignment table and the organizational narrative. Suggestions for the completion of each section canbe found below
Alignment TableInstructionsThe alignment table section provides a visual link between your organization’s actions andwhichever of the six priorities and nine levers best apply to your organization’s actions. Theseactions can be past, present, or future actions with measurable results. The suggested layout foreach right-hand column cell can be seen below. Text in each of the description boxes can range froma few sentences in length to a paragraph depending on your organization’s activities andcapabilities. For each program that your organization details, we recommend noting the relevantNQS lever your organization will use in its quality improvement efforts
PROGRAM ALIGNMENT NQS PRIORITIES DESCRIPTION 1. Title of Program/Initiative 2. Description of Program/Initiative Making care safer by reducing harm 3. NQS Lever Used caused in the delivery of care
4. Rationale for Approach 5. Metrics/Goals for Improvement Ensuring that each person and family is engaged as partners in their care
Promoting effective communication and coordination of care
Promoting the most effective prevention and treatment practices for the leading causes of mortality, starting with cardiovascular disease
August 7, 2017 1 National Quality StrategyWorking for QualityOMB No. 17-0043-2-EF PROGRAM ALIGNMENT NQS PRIORITIES DESCRIPTION Working with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable healthy living
Making quality care more affordable for individuals, families, employers, and governments by developing and spreading new health care delivery models
Organizational NarrativeInstructionsThe narrative section serves as a broad overview of your organization’s health and health carequality improvement efforts and directly links your organization’s quality improvement efforts tothe first-ever national movement to improve health and health care quality. After inserting therecommended NQS language at the beginning of your organization’s narrative, include a statementdescribing your organization’s most relevant programs, capabilities, or efforts that advance theStrategy’s three aims and work to achieve one or more of its six priorities. Finally, this sectionshould include any quality goals or quality statements that your organization may have. Whendeveloping this section, it may be helpful to fill out the alignment table first to ensure that yourorganization has a comprehensive list of its programs available for discussion while writing theorganizational narrative
Suggested ContentLanguage to be Included Prior to Your Own Organizational Statement: The National QualityStrategy (NQS), a national, not Federal, effort was established to serve as a catalyst and compass for anationwide focus on quality improvement efforts. The NQS is the first-ever national effort backed bylegislation to align public- and private-sector stakeholders to achieve one goal: better health andhealth care for all Americans
Stakeholders are working together in new and innovative ways to incorporate achievement of thethree NQS aims as a part of their day-to-day efforts to make health and health care better and moreaffordable for people and communities
To help achieve the aims of the NQS, [insert your organization] works to [insert primary NQS priority,e.g. ‘make care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care’]
[In this section, insert a broad narrative overview of your organization’s efforts that work toward theachievement of the NQS aims. You may wish to include here any potential details of yourorganization’s quality plan, ideas of which can be found below]:August 7, 2017 2 National Quality StrategyWorking for QualityOMB No. 17-0043-2-EF • Quality goals and infrastructure • Stakeholder participation • Performance measurement • Capacity building • Strategy implementation • Communications • Other relevant elementsAugust 7, 2017 3
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What is the nqs?
National Quality Strategy: What is the NQS? - RWJF What Is the National Quality Strategy? Health care spending in the United States now totals $2.5 trillion a year, the most per capita in the world.
What is the national quality strategy for health care?
To address this problem, the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care, also known as the National Quality Strategy.
What are the three main goals of the national health care strategy?
The strategy establishes three objectives: (1) to make health care more accessible, safe and patient-centered; (2) to address environmental, social and behavioral influences on health and health care; and (3) to make care more affordable.