Blog spotlight: HHS develops new strategy to improve healthcare quality
Nurse Leader Weekly, March 28, 2011
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The Health & Human Services Department has released the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care, a strategy that was required under the Affordable Care Act, and one that promotes quality healthcare focused on the needs of patients.
The publication is the first step in the reform toward creating national goals and priorities to guide local, state, and national efforts to improve the quality of healthcare, and aims to make the healthcare system work better for physicians and other healthcare providers, through things like reducing administrative burdens and fostering collaboration to improve care.
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