National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care

National Quality Strategy Stakeholder Tool Kit

A communications resource for stakeholders to promote the National Quality Strategy online and in person.

Introduction
Fact Sheet for Federal Audiences
Fact Sheet for National Priorities Partnership Members
Briefing Slides (PowerPoint file, 2 MB; Plugin Help: Accessible version - opens in new tab/window)
Blog Entry #1
Blog Entry #2
Social Media Announcements for Use by Stakeholders

Introduction

THE NATIONAL QUALITY STRATEGY (NQS) created this Stakeholder Tool Kit to support the activities of private and public organizations to advance the mission of the NQS. This tool kit contains fact sheets that can be printed and distributed, blogs and social media announcements for online use, and briefing slides for presentations.

The information can be tailored to suit your organization's messaging about its involvement in the NQS and should be considered as approved information to share. The Tool Kit contents will be updated on a periodic basis and posted to
http://www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality.

Questions? Contact us at NQStrategy@ahrq.hhs.gov.

Fact Sheet for Federal Audiences

The National Quality Strategy (NQS) created a series of fact sheets that address the effort's different audiences. This fact sheet explains the aims, priorities, and involvement by Federal partners in the implementation of the NQS. The 508-compliant PDF of the fact sheet can be downloaded at www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/nqs/nqsfactsheet2.pdf and posted to Web sites or printed and distributed at inperson events.

Fact Sheet for National Priorities Partnership Members

The National Quality Strategy (NQS) created a series of fact sheets that address the effort's different audiences. This fact sheet explains the aims, priorities, and role of the National Priorities Partnership (NPP) in the implementation of the NQS. The 508-compliant PDF of the fact sheet can be downloaded at www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/nqs/nqsfactsheet1.pdf and posted to Web sites or printed and distributed at inperson events.

Blog Entry #1

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

Does your organization's Web site have another column feature? Consider posting this content to your site. Tag the content with the designated key words, and promote the content through social media properties, if available.

The National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care Provides a Fresh Take on Health Care Triple Aims

The National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care, commonly referred to as the National Quality Strategy or NQS, was called for under the Affordable Care Act. The fundamental objective of the NQS, which was initially published in March 2011 and updated in April 2012, is to promote quality health care and improved health for patients, families, and communities.

At its core, the National Quality Strategy is to concurrently pursue three broad aims. These aims can be used to guide:

Better Care: Improve the overall quality of care by making health care more patient-centered, reliable, accessible, and safe.
Healthy People/Healthy Communities: Improve the health of the U.S. population by supporting proven interventions to address behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of health in addition to delivering higher quality care.
Affordable Care: Reduce the cost of quality health care for individuals, families, employers, and government.

To advance the aims, the NQS focuses on six priorities that have great potential for rapidly improving health outcomes and increasing the effectiveness of care for all populations. The six priorities are:

Making care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of care.
Ensuring that each person and family is engaged as a partner in their care.
Promoting effective communication and coordination of care.
Promoting the most effective prevention and treatment practices for the leading causes of mortality, starting with cardiovascular disease.
Working with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable healthy living.
Making quality care more affordable for individuals, families, employers, and governments by developing and spreading new health care delivery models.

More information on the National Quality Strategy is available at www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality.

Tags: quality, quality improvement, national quality strategy, HHS, triple aims, better care, affordable care, healthy communities

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Blog Entry #2

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

Five Facts about the National Quality Strategy and What It Is Doing to Help Provide High-QualityCare for All Americans

The National Quality Strategy (NQS), led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in coordination with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, was first published in 2011. The NQS is a national effort to align public and private interests to achieve better health and health care for all Americans.

Specifically, the National Quality Strategy:

Provides a framework to guide local, State, and national efforts to measure and improve health and health care quality.
Promotes quality health care that is focused on the needs of patients, families, and communities.
Moves the health care system to work better for doctors and other health care providers by reducing their administrative burdens and helping them collaborate to improve care.
Offers results of the latest evidence-based implementation efforts drawn from Federal and State agencies, local communities, providers, patients, businesses, employers, and payers.
Serves as an evolving guide for health care quality improvement, which is critical given the changing face of the health care landscape.

More information on the National Quality Strategy is available at www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality, including the 2012 Progress Report.

Tags: quality, quality improvement, national quality strategy, HHS

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Social Media Announcements for Use by Stakeholders

INSTRUCTIONS TO USERS

Does your organization use Facebook or Twitter to connect with stakeholders? The following messages with shortened URLs that link to National Quality Strategy content serve as easy-to-use content on your social media properties.

Check out the National Quality Strategy's Annual Progress Report released earlier this year: http://1.usa.gov/KNdP0E
The National Quality Strategy is a nationwide effort to improve health care. Learn about the Strategy's three aims and six priorities at: http://1.usa.gov/QtRvvb
The National Priority Partnership's 51 member organizations play a role in advancing the National Quality Strategy: http://goo.gl/vyg9O
Learn more about the Federal government's role in improving the nation's health care: http://1.usa.gov/MFDfe8

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Publication Number: OM 12-0090-EF November 2012