Quality management program definition

Quality management program means ongoing activities designed and implemented by a health care institution to improve the delivery of medical services, nursing services, health-related services, and ancillary services provided by the health care institution.

Quality management program means a program which provides review by physicians and other health professionals of the appropriateness and adequacy of the delivery of health services.

Quality management program or "QM" means the continuous study of and improvement of an EMS agency or system including the collection of data, the identification of deficiencies through continuous evaluation, the education of personnel and the establishment of goals, policies and programs that improve patient outcomes in EMS systems.

Examples of Quality management program in a sentence

• To adopt and maintain a Quality Management Program consistent with BLUE CROSS standards and approved by BLUE CROSS.

• The scope of delegated authority shall be as set forth in the Utilization Management Program guidelines and the Quality Management Program guidelines issued by BLUE CROSS and provided to PARTICIPATING MEDICAL GROUP.

• Blue Cross will evaluate PARTICIPATING MEDICAL GROUP’s Quality Management Program and Member quality of care using a scorecard.

• The parties acknowledge and agree that authority to perform Utilization Management Program activities and Quality Management Program activities under this Agreement is a delegation of BLUE CROSS authority pursuant to Sections 1370 and 1370.1 of the Health and Safety Code, and all or part of this authority may be revoked at any time.

• PARTICIPATING MEDICAL GROUP agrees to allow on-site review of its Quality Management Program by BLUE CROSS staff.

More Definitions of Quality management program

Quality management program means a nationally recognized

Quality management program means activities designed and implemented by a hospital to improve the delivery of hospital services.

Quality management program means ongoing activities designed and implemented by a nursing care institution to improve the delivery of nursing care institution services.

Quality management program means the program summarized in the Provider Manual relating to the quality of Covered Services provided to Eligible Persons which program includes, but is not limited to, Beech's credentialing and recredentialing program.

Quality management program means a nationally recognized program using criteria similar or equivalent to the Baldridge criteria. Beginning in 2010, all local governments receiving over five hundred thousand dollars a year during the previous calendar year from: State housing-related funding sources, including the Washington housing trust fund; the ending homelessness program surcharges in RCW 36.22.179 and 36.22.1791 (as recodified by this act); and any surcharges in chapter 43.185C RCW and the surcharges in RCW 36.22.178 (as recodified by this act), shall apply to the Washington state quality award program for an independent assessment of its quality management, accountability, and performance system, once every three years beginning by January 1, 2011.

Quality management program. (QM) means a program approved by COMPANY, directed by Participating Providers and designed to assure the provision of quality Covered Services to Enrollees.

Quality management program means ongoing activities designed and implemented by a procurement organization to improve the delivery of services and activities related to NAM.