Pursuing perfection: RWJF, IHI announce project to improve health care performance.
Achieving quality health care--by stamping out mediocrity while supporting superior performances in all care processes--may seem to many in the health care industry a far-off realization. But, this area may be getting a kick-start soon with a new initiative, "Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance," funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J., and managed by the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement. With the program, six health care organizations will be given opportunities to improve patient outcomes by "pursuing perfection across all their care processes."
D000047:Academies and Institutes; D005381:Financing, Organized; D005582:Foundations; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States