Successful companies use quality improvement methods to create safer and better products. Today, many health organizations are using similar methods to improve the quality of care they provide.
To inspire action and strengthen partnerships, the Foundation provides care center data for key health measures for each of its accredited care centers.
The data is a tool for people with CF and their families to use to partner with their care center to improve CF care. However, this data only tells part of the story. It is important for you and your care center to become partners and take action to improve your or your child's care and thus improve your care center.
When people with CF and their families become active participants in care, and in partnership with their care center staff—quality always improves.
The Foundation has created a Quality Improvement Toolkit. Like the care center health data, this toolkit aims to help people with CF, their families and care centers become successful partners in improving the quality of CF care.
To learn more about quality improvement in CF care, watch the Web cast, "One Team's Story: Raising the Bar of CF Care" (orig. air date April 5, 2005), and "Quality CF Care is More Than the Numbers" (orig. air date November 28, 2006), plus you can read "It's All About Suzy: Quality Improvement in CF Care" and the Patient Registry Report.
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Updated 02/11/09
