Adopting Continuous Quality Improvement

You have navigated a number of ways to use quality improvement (QI) to improve your processes and programs. In addition, you understand that continuous QI requires dedicated time for training, learning new tools and QI methods, and improving processes and programs through measuring and evaluating outcomes.

The topics below include trainings, guidance on improving processes and programs, evaluation resources to help you continue on the path to success, and advanced QI tools and techniques.

Advance Your QI Skill Set

Public Health Improvement Resource Center
Public Health Quality Improvement Encyclopedia
Quality Improvement Tools for Leadership Development
A Crosswalk for Aligning Accreditation Plans
Applying Performance Measurement to Public Health Policy Activities
Public Health Memory Jogger II
Quality Improvement Courses on TRAIN

Improve Processes and Programs

Developing a Health Department Quality Improvement Plan
Modular kaizen: Dealing with Disruptions
Quality Improvement is Not Just for Problems: Success and Effect Diagram
SIPOC+CM+CE Collection Form

Measure Success

Assessing and Building a Culture of Quality Improvement in Your Organization
Performance Measurement in the Performance Management Toolkit
Institute for Healthcare Improvement Successful Measurement for Improvement
QI Leads to Health Outcomes

To help you move from learning to application, PHF offers consultation services in addition to a number of basic to advanced QI courses that can be tailored to your organizational needs. Click here for more information.