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Optimizing The Impact Of Quality Healthcare Improvements Within A Federally Qualified Health Clinic (Fqhc), Felicia Keys, Ladonna Phillips, Lashundra Speights

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This doctoral project’s purpose was geared toward strengthening quality healthcare outcomes documentation by constructing an updated policy and procedure manual specific to quality measures identified above, identifying attitudes and barriers to documenting, and assessing administration willingness to change. The project included a retrospective chart review of three populations and seven healthcare topics. Each diagnosis was researched utilizing specific ICD-10 (see Appendix A). A focus group/Pre-Implementation Questionnaire was administered to a panel of experts consisting of three nurse practitioners with one to nine years of experience employed at the FQHC. Afterward, a focus group was held to discuss barriers and attitudes …