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- Quality management strategies help assess and enhance health services, leading to better patient care.
- The Living Well with a Chronic Condition program improved access to education and exercise classes, reducing wait times from an average of 45 days to less than 1 week.
- Involving both staff and participants in quality management tools, such as process mapping and feedback collection, led to sustained improvements in service delivery.
Article Abstract
Quality management strategies can be integrated into health services and processes to evaluate, measure, and improve the health services delivered to patients. Over a 6-month period, Living Well with a Chronic Condition program, a chronic disease management health service, had its support services evaluated and significantly improved, reducing the delays that participants experienced trying to access education and exercise classes. Through the use of quality management tools, including process mapping, performance data collection and evaluation, and participant feedback, the program intake process was improved significantly. Wait times of up to 90 days, with an average of 45 days, were reduced to less than 1 week. Postimprovement measures continued to demonstrate improved service, indicating that involving the staff and participants in quality management strategies can lead to significant optimization of services to participants.
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