Quality Measurement & Display - Part 1
Thursday, August 19, 2021
1:30 - 2:30 PM CST

Offered through Partnership with New Jersey Hospital Association

OVERVIEW:
There is a great demand for accurate, useful information on healthcare quality that can inform the decisions of consumers, employers, physicians and other clinicians and policymakers. Various types of measures are used in healthcare to assess performance, improvement and other aspects of quality. This first session will provide an overview of the types of measures used in healthcare, methods for simple data collection that engages the frontline and how good display of data can communicate the story with tips for effective displays of data including dashboards.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
C-suite, nurse leaders, registered nurses, pharmacy, interdisciplinary healthcare providers, quality improvement professionals and risk managers.

FACULTY:  Fran Griffin & Associates, LLC
Fran Griffin, RRT, MPA is an improvement consultant with extensive health care experience in high reliability, patient safety, quality improvement and infection prevention. Ms. Griffin works with various organizations to drive clinical quality improvement and provide training to increase skills and capabilities of clinician and health care managers. She has led multiple, successful developed and delivered many quality improvement training programs. Ms. Griffin holds a master’s degree in public administration, is co-developer of the Global Trigger Tool and author on numerous articles.

Ms. Griffin is a respiratory therapist and former EMT and worked in clinical care before advancing to hospital administration with oversight for quality, case management, infection prevention and emergency preparedness. She served as a senior advisor to innovation models at the CMS Innovation Center and led the Innovation Advisors Program. Fran has been faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement since 2000 and was full time staff for eight years.