NAHQ releases Healthcare Quality and Safety Workforce report

The National Association for Healthcare Quality released its Healthcare Quality and Safety Workforce report. The report confirms health care leaders mainly focus on three of NAHQ’s eight quality domains: regulatory and accreditation, patient safety and quality leadership and integration. However, the report found an insufficient focus on population health and care transitions, performance and process improvement, health data analytics, professional engagement and quality review and accountability. Among the recommendations, the report calls for health care leaders to incorporate all eight quality and safety domains. The report also urges leaders to “develop a proactive, clear staffing plan that articulates who is responsible for which quality and safety work at which level.”