“Cheers to a new year and another chance to get it right” --Oprah Winfrey
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Topics: Avoiding Deficiencies, Compliance, Billing, Employee Training, HIPAA, Delivery, Retail, Warehouse, Showroom, Personnel Files, Materials Management, Patient File Requirements, Process Improvement, Quality, Safety Officer, Quality Improvement, Patient Privacy, Quality Standards
Quality improvement (QI) is often cited by owners and managers as one of the most difficult processes to understand. Programs are established and resources spent in an effort to maintain compliance in this area. Organizations report to surveyors that the process of maintaining their QI program can be cumbersome, time consuming, and useless.
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When it comes to DME accreditation, surveyors receive multiple inquiries on an ongoing basis regarding how to monitor quality continuously and improve the performance of their organization.
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Who is Anti-Quality?
I would dare say that in a room of 100 people not one would raise their hand in response to that question. We all want a “quality of life”. As consumers we all want quality products; quality in the foods we eat, in the goods we purchase, in the cars we drive. We may not consciously think, “I want to buy a can of quality vegetables”, but we sure do all want to believe that the vegetables are of a certain quality with a certain taste and processed with a high level of sanitation and safety. We all seek quality if not once but numerous times a day even if it isn’t a conscious thought.
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Topics: Quality, Quality Improvement, Process Improvement
