The Evolution of Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Why Healthcare Quality Is An Issue

A Broken System

The Current State Of Affairs: Key Organizations In Healthcare Quality And Safety

Organizational Approaches To Improving Quality

Check Your Understanding

Incentives For Quality

Where Do We Go From Here? Vision For The Future

Check Your Understanding

Match each descriptor below with the appropriate organization

1.	Accredits nearly 18,000 hospitals and healthcare organizations in the United States.
1.	IOM	NCQA	JCAHO	FACCT	IHI	Leapfrog	HRSA

2.	Accredits and improves the quality of MCOs (Managed Care Organizations).
2.	IOM	NCQA	JCAHO	FACCT	IHI	Leapfrog	HRSA

3.	Federal government agency that works to assure the availability of quality health care to low income and vulnerable populations.
3.	IOM	NCQA	JCAHO	FACCT	IHI	Leapfrog	HRSA

4.	Advance and disseminate scientific knowledge to improve human health.
4.	IOM	NCQA	JCAHO	FACCT	IHI	Leapfrog	HRSA

5.	Non-profit organization led by Don Berwick with the intent to promote change in health care systems.
5.	IOM	NCQA	JCAHO	FACCT	IHI	Leapfrog	HRSA

6.	A coalition of health insurance purchasers using purchasing power to promote certain interventions.
6.	IOM	NCQA	JCAHO	FACCT	IHI	Leapfrog	HRSA

7.	Coalition of consumer organizations crafting new ways to educate the public about quality of care based on the experiences of patients.
7.	IOM	NCQA	JCAHO	FACCT	IHI	Leapfrog	HRSA

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