Another Call for Quality Improvement

• By: Thomas R. Grinley, MBA, CMQ/OE, CLYB New Hampshire Dept. of Health and Human Services
• October 7th, 2022
• behavioral health care, clinical outcomes, compliance, Fall 2022 Issue, process measures, quality improvement, root cause analysis
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Twelve years ago, Dr. Anthony Weiss and I presented a paper to the Healthcare Division of the American Society for Quality. We made a call for quality improvement in behavioral health and argued that, in general, what passed for quality improvement was really about compliance. We were echoing a...