Quality Management Integration in Long-term Care

Download or read book Quality Management Integration in Long-term Care written by Maryjane G. Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The model introduced in this book combines the concepts of both continuous quality improvement (which promotes improvements in the quality of processes and outcomes) and total quality management (which involves all parts of an organization in continuous quality improvement) to provide a new quality management tool. Bradley, an ASQ-certified Quality Manager, and Thompson, vice-president of Organizational Performance for Ebenezer Social Ministries, provide strategies for the management of long-term care such as how to implement their model's core concepts and how to overcome common internal and external barriers to improvements; they include a step- by-step example of how a long term care facility has used quality management integration. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR