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Broadening The Lens: A Systems Approach To Nursing Home Quality Improvement, Kelly M. Smith
Broadening The Lens: A Systems Approach To Nursing Home Quality Improvement, Kelly M. Smith
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The National Quality Award Program, sponsored by the American Healthcare Association National Center for Assisted Living, was implemented to cultivate continuous quality improvement in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Based upon the Baldridge Criteria for Performance Excellence, the program utilizes a systems-based or Big “Q” approach to quality and requires applicants to examine seven categories of their organizational environment including: 1) leadership, 2) strategy, 3) customers, 4) measurement, analysis, and knowledge management, 5) workforce, 6) operations, and 7) results. The subsequent dissertation examines whether award status is associated with better performance on publicly reported quality measures and financial performance …