2. Why Celebrate? Thank you!
We want to take this opportunity to thank you for your work.
You do hard work.
You help save lives.
You help reduce costs.
You make a difference in the lives of the people we serve.

3. Our Successes
Add any specific wins you’ve achieved. Add additional slides as necessary.
NOTE: List the wins your team has achieved.
We can be proud of the achievements we’ve made in healthcare quality, including ….
What are some of the successes that we can add to the list?

4. Our Quality Goals
Emphasize the three to five top goals for your organization.

5. Our Action Plan
List a few specific tactics you’ll use to achieve the goals you outlined on the previous slide.

6. Why We Do What We Do
230, ,000 patients annually are subject to preventable harm that leads to their death
-Journal of Patient Safety, 2013
It’s up to us as healthcare quality professionals to make an impact and reduce that number!
A 2013 study in the Journal of Patient Safety shows that between 230,000 and 440,000 patients annually are subject to preventable harm that leads to their death.
Without robust QI efforts, that number would be larger.
It’s up to us as healthcare quality professionals to make that number smaller.

7. Being a Healthcare Quality Professional
What does a Healthcare Quality Professional mean to you?
Healthcare Quality Professionals are the unsung heroes of hospitals, physicians’ offices and insurance companies.
They’re the resources for the organization to improve quality and safety of our patients/customers.
HQPs apply proven quality-improvement approaches to complex data sets to arrive at solutions that improve outcomes, decrease costs, increase access to care, and drive higher stakeholder satisfaction.
Did you know? People who use these techniques for these purposes are HQPs, even if they don’t occupy a formal “quality” role.

8. How HQPs Lead the Way We drive a transformative culture of safety.
We reveal improvement opportunities in a pay-for-value world.
We manage the industry’s structural realignments.
We guide optimal care for diverse populations.
We adapt to evolving professional standards.

9. Driving a Culture of Quality and Safety
Informing strategy
Facilitating compliance with standards and regulations
Managing quality improvement activities
Advocating for patients
We inform strategy by linking quality initiatives within the organization’s strategic planning process.
We facilitate compliance with standards and regulations.
We support robust quality improvement activities to ensure appropriate accountability for outcomes.
We advocate for the patient within complex systems of care.

10. Managing Information Using integrated data-management approaches
Using evidence-based practice
Using our PI methods and change-management skills
We use integrated data-management approaches to optimize business operations.
We use evidence-based practice to provide patients with reliable and valid care.
We use our PI methods and change-management skills to help our colleagues evolve as clinical evidence and business imperatives grows ever more complicated.

11. Guiding Care for Population Health Management
Delivering the right care at the right time in a culturally sensitive manner
Optimizing care plans and care transitions
Minimizing socioeconomic barriers
Promoting wellness
We study the demographics of the populations we serve to ensure that we deliver the right care at the right time in a culturally sensitive manner.
We optimize care plans and care transitions to support members where they’re at in their life’s journey.
We design approaches that minimize socioeconomic barriers to optimal care trajectories.
We promote wellness.

12. Revealing Pay-for-Value Opportunities
Optimizing the performance of programs and services to reduce waste
Encouraging standard work
We incorporate processes to address the shift to value-based models.
We optimize the performance of programs and services to reduce waste.
We encourage standard work through widely accepted performance-improvement techniques.

13. Adapting to Environmental Changes
Changing regulatory requirements and industry trends
Expanding skills
Focusing on a specialization
We keep abreast of changing regulatory requirements and industry trends to support evolving organizational strategy.
We expand our skills to meet the needs of today and tomorrow.
The complex environment can lead to specialization within healthcare quality:
Performance and Process Improvement
Population Health and Care Transitions
Health Data Analytics
Patient Safety
Regulatory and Accreditation
Quality Review and Accountability
And, we can look to the National Association for Healthcare Quality to help us enhance our knowledge and skills to do our jobs even better.

14. Your NAHQ Partnership
Healthcare Quality Week is brought to you by The National Association for Healthcare Quality. NAHQ defines the standard of excellence for the profession and equips individuals and organizations to meet the standard.

15. Demonstrate Your Competency
NAHQ offers the Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality credential—the only accredited certification in our industry. With more than 10,000 CPHQs worldwide, these professionals are universally recognized as qualified in their work and advance the profession of healthcare quality.

16. Education at Every Level
NAHQ offers extensive educational programming, including a Quality Principles program for professionals new to the field; preparation programs for CPHQ certification; and the industry-elevating HQ Essential: Competencies for the Healthcare Quality Profession that targets advanced- and master-level professionals.

17. Staying on Top of the Trends
NAHQ membership
CPHQ credential
Healthcare Quality Foundation
Learning Labs
NAHQ Next, November 5-7, 2018
Visit for more information
As a Healthcare Quality Professional, NAHQ is your professional home. Keep up with the trends in healthcare quality.
Join the National Association for Healthcare Quality
Earn your Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality credential
Join your state’s healthcare quality association
Apply for a professional development grant through the Healthcare Quality Foundation
Participate in a Learning Lab- NAHQ’s webinar series
Attend NAHQ Next, NAHQ’s annual conference, which takes place November 5-7, 2018 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Visit for more information

18. Thank You!
Add a closing quote, photo or other bit of local color to end the presentation. You could also insert your corporate logo or tagline, depending on your organization’s internal marketing policies.