Continuous quality improvement (CQI) for SBHCs
In connection with its efforts to strengthen the quality of care provided by school-based health centers across the United States, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Making the Grade initiative began an effort to develop a tool that would contribute to this outcome. Funding from the Bureau of Primary Health Care, an agency in the US Department of Health and Human Services, has allowed this initiative to move forwarded in 2001 resulting in a draft CQI tool and the testing of the tool in 19 sites. Information related to this project is provided below.
About CQI Authors
Three clinicians, Drs. Linda Juszczak, Doris Pastore, and Christopher Reif, designed the tool and developed documents for its use. Click here for biographical and contact information.
CQI tool
This tool, developed over the past two years in a collaboration involving staff from the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools and colleagues at North Shore University Hospital (NYC), Mt. Sinai Medical Center (NYC) and HealthPartners (St. Paul) is designed to strengthen clinical care provided by school-based health centers. This version of the tool is the basis for a beta test currently being conducted at 19 school-based health centers around the country.
Data Collection Forms are forms to be used in recording data from medical record reviews.
Instructions for filling out audit sheets.
Resources
Links to sites with background information on CQI process and individual sentinel conditions.
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FAQs
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Beta test data collection site
