title: Transition to quality improvement: adapting the quality management plan.
abstract: Health care organizations across the country are in different phases of transition from quality assurance to quality improvement. A plan is essential to ensure quality assessment and improvement requirements are met while the organization is in transition. Based on the hospital's commitment to quality improvement, the Division of Nursing at The New York Hospital has built on the strengths of the QA program and begun transition to QI by incorporating the principles of QI and developing quality improvement teams with other disciplines and within nursing.
authors.affiliation: Division of Surgery, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009519:New York City; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*