Quality Close to Home: A Preliminary Design for an Integrated Quality Management System

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  • Interview Findings Word

Article Publication Date: 
8/15/2005
Summary: 
The “Quality Close to Home” papers are part of Wisconsin’s process to review the existing quality management system for Home and Community Based Services. The report on local practices was the result of a series of interviews conducted with local informants who conduct quality management activities. The second paper outlines the scope of quality management, challenges of quality management, federal rules and regulations, and provides a design for an improved quality management system.
Topics: 
Quality
Types/Tools: 
Reports
Populations: 
Aging/Older Adults; Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities; Physical Disabilities
Sources: 
Grantee produced
Wisconsin
Programs/Initiatives: 
1915c
States: 
Wisconsin
Keywords: 
Long-Term Care; Organizational Change
quality management; quality improvement; quality assurance; QA/QI; interviews; system design; safeguarding; satisfaction and outcome;

Contact

Nirvana Huhtala Petlick
npetlick@ifh.rutgers.edu

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51186