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Quality Framework for Public Health Units
In 2005, the Ontario Council on Community Health Accreditation
(OCCHA) established a standing committee of the OCCHA Board of
Directors for continuous quality improvement (CQI). The
purpose of this committee is to improve OCCHA’s ability
to encourage and facilitate organizational excellence and ongoing
quality of practice in public health. To support
this objective, OCCHA also established a CQI Advisory Group. Membership
on this group is open to all public health units in Ontario. Currently,
nineteen of the thirty-six health units are represented on this
group.
The primary focus of the CQI Advisory Group has been the development
of a quality framework for public health units. A review of continuous
quality improvement initiatives was conducted and considered
during the framework development process.
The
OCCHA Quality Framework for Public Health Units is based on the
concept of a continuous improvement cycle and is consistent with
the OCCHA accreditation standards.
The
quality framework overview, provides an outline of the framework,
its components and its link with the accreditation standards. Although
the framework is consistent with the accreditation standards,
its purpose is to promote a culture of continuous quality improvement
in all health units. The CQI Advisory Group will be developing
processes and/or mechanisms to support public health units in
their implementation of this framework.
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